Anyway, I used the background in [The] Sword of Shannara more in a cautionary vein than as a prophecy. Also, it was necessary to destroy civilization in order to take a look at what it would mean to have to build it back up again using magic.

A civilization once destroyed by misuse of power is a bit wary the second time out about what new power can do.

Environment plays a role in all of the Shannara novels: "Environment is a character in my story and almost always plays a major role in affecting the story's outcome.

I have always believed that fantasy, in particular, because it takes place in an imaginary world with at least some imaginary characters, needs to make the reader feel at home in the setting.

That means bringing the setting alive for the reader, which is what creating environment as a character is really all about.

The Sword of Shannara received mixed reviews following its publication, most of which remarked on its similarity to J.

Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings. Choice stated that the novel was "exceptionally well-written, very readable" and "will be accepted by most teenagers.

Tymn also thought that it contained quality prose. Tymn believed that Sword followed Lord of the Rings too closely, but he also cited some of the differences, such as the use of a post-holocaust setting with the races which sprang from it, and an "unexpected ending springing from the nature of the sword.

The Sword of Shannara has drawn extensive criticism from critics who believe that Brooks derived too much of his novel from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

In , American fantasy editor Lin Carter denounced The Sword of Shannara as "the single most cold-blooded, complete rip-off of another book that I have ever read".

Schlobin was kinder in his assessment, though he still thought that The Sword of Shannara was a disappointment because of its similarities to The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that the novel is distinctive for "the dogged way in which it follows Tolkien point for point".

Terry Brooks has said that Tolkien's works were a major influence in his writing, [36] though he has also said that Tolkien was not his only influence.

Other influences included his editor Lester del Rey, as well as the many different books which he had read over his life.

Also, mythology and ancient civilizations that he had learned about in school. Author Gene Wolfe defended Brooks' derivation of material from Tolkien in a Interzone essay: "Terry Brooks has often been disparaged for imitating Tolkien, particularly by those reviewers who find his books inferior to Tolkien's own.

I can say only that I wish there were more imitators—we need them—and that all imitations of so great an original must necessarily be inferior. John Batchelor feels that it was the weakest of the surge in fantasy, ranking it below Stephen R.

The Sword of Shannara sold about , copies in its first month in print, [41] and this success provided a major boost to the fantasy genre. Winters writes that "until Shannara , no fantasy writer except J.

Tolkien had made such an impression on the general public. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever and The Sword of Shannara ushered in "the era of the big commercial fantasy" [45] and helped make epic fantasy the leading fantasy subgenre.

This begins with Elfstones , leaving Sword for later. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Allanon. The English Journal.

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He has just reached manhood, and now goes by Shea Ohmsford. Shea's parents were murdered mysteriously, so Eldra and his wife hid the boy and later left him in the care of the Ohmsfords.

Eldra then takes his own life to protect this secret from the Skull Bearers and to protect his wife, knowing that the Skull Bearers won't bother with her if he is dead.

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First King of Shannara Let say this is the URL for the episode 4 of the fifth season of your program. You know that this program has 6 seasons with 22 episode each.

As said before: this site is very slow so you prefer downloading episodes in background then watch them later. The best would be download all episode in a single long running operation instead of manually doing it.

You can use distribute or pip to install the utility in your Python environment. After installing you will be able to run the allanon script from command line.

For example: run the following for access the utility help:. The allanon script take an additional --search parameter see the first example given above.