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Terry Brooks published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It was a New York Times bestseller for more than six months. He has published twenty-four New York Times bestsellers since. Two of those – the novels Running with the Demon and A Knight of the Word – were chosen by the... read more
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It's now 500 years since the Hawk led the refugees of the great wars into a valley and sealed it off from the outside. Now the mist wall that protected them has faded away. Outside the valley the land is either scarred or desolate from the nuclear explosions and radiation. They now face the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Dedalion Inch: Big Mercenary type wandering the waste.
- Gray Man: The last of the Knights of the Word. Carries magical black staff.
- Tasha Orullian: Add a description of this character.
- Prue Liss: is a tracker in Glensk Wood, best friend to Panterra, she's quick to act, and ability to sense danger to her.
- Panterra Qu: is a tracker in Glensk Wood w/ Prue, best friend to Prue, and abilty to track anything.
- Phryne: Princess of the elves, tends to be stubborn and curious, and long to get look in the outside world, and developed an intrerst in Panterra.
- Tasha: is elven tracker, friends w/ Panterra and Prue, and has a twin brother named Tenerife. He's tall, broad shouldered, and getting into mischief.
- Sider Ament: Knight of the Word, who lived isolate from villages and keeps to himself, and have history w/ Aislinne Kray.
- Trow Raven: tracker leader in Glensk Wood
- Arik Sam: is a troll helping Pan and Prue to be release from Taurep Siq.
- Aislinne: is the wife of Pogue Kray, she's a healer and member of the council in Glensk Wood, and knows Sider Ament.
- Pogue Kray: is the leader of the council in Glensk Wood, dislike Sider, and member of the Children of Hawk sect.
- Arbor
- Isoeld: is the daughter of a baker, has poise and manners and beauty, the stepmother to Phryne and helps out in the infrimary. She yearns to become Queen of the Elves.
- Trow Ravenlock: is the leader of the Trackers in Glensk Wood
- Arik Siq: is the oldest son of Taureq Sig and cunning.
- Grosha: is the youngest son of Taureq Sig and very dangerous.
- Russa: is an elven guard
- Glensk Wood: is the human village that Panterra and Prue lived.
- Teonette: is the First Minister of the elves
- Brickey: is a friend of Pan and Prue, can appear and disappear w/ out being seen, and a thief.
- Mistral Belloruus: is the grandmother of Phryne, have eyes and ears in the palace, and other suitors to guard her.
- Taureq: is the leader of Dougi tribe of Trolls and not be trusted
- Bonnasaint: is an assassin, master of disgiuse, and abiltiy to make himself invisible.
- Arik Sig
- Drouj: is the name of the powerful Troll tribe in the wasteland and the leader is Taureq Sig
- Maturen: the entitled of the leader of the Troll tribe
- Skeal Eile: is the Seraphic of the Children of Hawk, who believes Hawk will return to them when there is peace in the outside world and punished anybody who questions their beliefs, and have ambitious agenda to sweep their beliefs to other races.
- Xac: an elven boy who lead Pan and Prue to the Orullion brothers Tasha and Tenerife, knows everything that occur in Aborlon, Tasha ususally teases him, and wants to become an elven tracker.
- Tenerife: Tasha's twin brother, friends w/ Pan and Prue, and very mischief as Tasha. He's an elven tracker.
Quotes edit
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“Nothing anyone could say would change minds so settled; belief in the invisible, belief founded solely on faith, did not allow for that.”
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“Change comes in the form of repetition. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two, in any case. It's been so in the past, it's so now, and I would be willing to bet it'll be so forever.”
Deladion Inch
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They are much more concerned about not doing the wrong thing than doing the right.
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THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC.
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They want so hard to believe in what they’ve been taught that they find ways to rationalize things they wouldn’t stand for otherwise. They need to keep their faith intact or risk losing it. No one likes letting go of what they have always believed, even when they know it’s right to do so.”
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But we don’t always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don’t get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled. That’s what we have here.”
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It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what’s familiar and comfortable will last forever.”
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Change comes in the form of repetition. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two, in any case. It’s been so in the past, it’s so now, and I would be willing to bet it’ll be so forever.”
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And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago.
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“We shouldn’t have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don’t. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time out because now and then we get exactly what we want.”
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He had the confidence and faith of the young that there was time and space enough for anything. You just had to be patient; you just had to believe.
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Those who ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them in the future, but no one believes it.”
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Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Black ice coated earth frozen hard by night temperatures that had dropped below freezing, a thin skein of slickness that challenged the grip of his toughened-rawhide boot soles.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Legends of Shannara. (standard series)
Followed by The Measure of the Magic.
This is book 7 of 22 in Shannara. (standard series)
Preceded by The Gypsy Morph, and followed by The Measure of the Magic.
This is book 21 of 22 in Shannara (Recommended Reading Order By Author). (standard series)
Preceded by The Elves of Cintra, and followed by The Measure of the Magic.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Terry Brooks (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780345484178
Page Count: 353
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780345484178
Page Count: 353
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3552.R6596 B43 2010
- Dewey: 813.54
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