Finally. This has been brewing one way or another for close to 15 years. I've known a long time of the MTV series already (at least for about 3 years), but was wondering if had been stopped again, just as before.
Good choice to start with Elfstones. If there was one Shannara book I'd like to see made into a movie or a series, it would be that one. I only hope they make Will Ohmsford a stronger and less naive character, so he doesn't have to have his *** saved by Eretria constantly. That would make Eretria *a lot* less smug and annoying in one go as well. I'd like to see her as a supporting character, helping Will Ohmsford, instead of an annoying sidekick the main hero doesn't want to have around.
I think the ending of Elfstones is touching, tragic and beautiful all at the same time.
John Rhys-Davies as Eventine? Funny. From a 1600-ish ship pilot (Rodriguez, in Shogun) to being a Dwarf, finally to become an Elf. How's that for a career path?
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Twenty-seven Shannara books and counting, with twenty-seven non-LoTR-like conclusions, and twenty-six non-LoTR-like beginnings and middles; yet someone always wants to dwell on the first two-thirds of the very first book of a burgeoning fantasy author who didn't quite have his feet under him yet (and recognized it).
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Starting from there, Terry Brooks has become the second best selling still living fantasy author after J.K. Rowling
(1) (2) (3...).
Still, Brooks is often burned to the ground and ends up on the "Worst Fantasy Ever" lists, together with other writers from the eighties (David Eddings, R.A. Salvatore), with the phrase "this is just run off the mill fantasy".
It might be so now, but it wasn't in the eighties. Back then, you had Lord of the Rings, and then... uh... nothing. Not in that style, at least.