Thread: Shannara coming to television
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Old 07-12-2015, 04:38 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
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?


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.

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(I do have to agree that David Eddings became more and more repetitive after The Malloreon. The Belgariad and Malloreon had The Orb (blue) and its counterpart, The Sardion (red); then The Elenium and The Tamuli had Bhelliom (also blue) with Klael as counterpart (also red, IIRC), Garion fights Torak, Sparhawk fights Azash... and so on, but they where at least different stories. The high point of Edding's repetitiveness was The Dreamers, essentially writing the same book four times.
I'm skeptical about Brooks being the second best fantasy author of all time. Both LOTR and The Hobbit are over 140 million. The figures that I see for Brooks show him selling around 21 million total. A lot of books for sure and makes him a fairly wealthy man, but well below Rowling (350 million total), Tolkien (300 million), Lewis (120 million), Pratchett (55 million) and Jordan (44 million).

btw - good point John Rhys-Davies. He's been in a lot of hit movies. LOTR, Indiana Jones to name a couple.
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