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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Interesting, so it skips the original book, The Sword of Shannara?
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Possibly because (as Brooks himself acknowledges) it's a blatant rip-off of LOTR, from which it lifts the entire plot and many of the characters. It was really only with "Elfstones" that Brooks started writing his
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In 1978, the influential 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". Elaborating on his disapproval of the book, Carter wrote that "Terry Brooks wasn't trying to imitate Tolkien's prose, just steal his story line and complete cast of characters, and [Brooks] did it with such clumsiness and so heavy-handedly, that he virtually rubbed your nose in it."
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Assessing The Sword of Shannara three decades after its publication, the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey ... found that the novel was distinctive for "the dogged way in which it follow[ed] Tolkien point for point". Within Brooks' novel, Shippey located "analogues" for Tolkien characters such as Sauron (Brona), Gandalf (Allanon), the Hobbits (Shea and Flick), Aragorn (Menion), Boromir (Balinor), Gimli (Hendel), Legolas (Durin and Dayel), Gollum (Orl Fane), the Barrow-wight (Mist Wraith) and the Nazgûl (Skull Bearers), among others.[33] He also found plot similarities to events in The Lord of the Rings such as the Fellowship of the Ring's formation and adventures, the journeys to Rivendell (Culhaven) and Lothlórien (Storlock), Gandalf's (Allanon) fall in Moria (Paranor) and subsequent reappearance, and the Rohirrim's arrival at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (Battle of Tirsys), among others.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sw...d_of_the_Rings