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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've read a number of the Shannara books and I find them quite good. If you actually reading them in order, the first series is nothing at all like LotR and is quite different to what you'd expect (if you started with Sword of Shannara).
The first series is actually the Word and the Void series.
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While chronologically correct in universe, Brooks started writing Word & Void some 20 years after
The Sword of Shannara was written. That is, for 14 year old me? Those books didn't exist. Thus The Sword of Shannara trillogy is the original series. And 14 year old me did note the striking similarities with
The Lord of the Rings. Not that they thought the books were bad, just very derivative.