![]() ”Dust began to rise from the parched plains, the wind stirring it in wild clouds, and the size of the army seemed to swell even more, to rise on the dust as if fed by it. Bremen dispatches his small band in various directions on different quests as he tries to discover the proper way forward to destroy something seemingly too powerful to stop. Like with most visions, clarity is an issue. In this case, the Dwarves are nearly destroyed before the Elves can muster their army for war.īremen has a vision of a sword, a very special sword, made with magic and old science and held by a great Elven leader. If Hitler hadn’t dithered at Dunkirk, the war might very well have been over before the US could get in the war. The free Races would debate and consider and be made slaves before they realized what had happened to them.” Self-interest would generate an ill-advised caution. But it would take time for them to decide to do this if left to their own devices. ![]() ”Only by uniting could the free Races hope to prevail. This reminds me of the slow responses by countries who were still recovering from the devastation of World War One and couldn’t even fathom the possibility of having to fight yet another world war. There is little time to convince the Races to come together as one. Magic will have to be used again, and it may even need the help of the old sciences as well. He is marching south, and the first he will come for are the druids.īremen can only convince a small band of druids to leave the keep and come with him. He has skull bearers, other druids who have been warped into sadistic, brutal, powerful monsters. The Warlock Lord, Brona, a druid who has been twisted by dark magic, has risen in the north and has browbeaten the trolls into an army of chaos. When Bremen appears, demanding to see the council to warn them of the coming dangers, the last thing they want to do is believe a druid who has been cast out. The Druids have made themselves toothless, shut up with their books and minor spells in the castle keep of Paranor. The Druids have been crippled by the horror of the misuse of magic in the first war of the races, which destroyed the old world and sent the race of man into banishment. The Druids flinched as the rending sprayed them with the victim’s blood.” With a hiss of satisfaction, it seized the young Elven guard, ripped out his throat, and cast him aside. Red eyes burned into the three who cowered before it, and it shoved its way past them disdainfully. All sharp edges and flat planes, all hardness and bulk, it filled the corridor and seemed to suck away the very air. It was a Skull Bearer, hunched and massive within its black cloak, claws extended before it. ”The Druids stepped back as the first of those things slouched into the light. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, where it remained for over five months. He then wrote The Sword of Shannara, the seven year grand result retaining sanity while studying at Washington & Lee University and practicing law. That moment changed Terry's life forever, because in Tolkien's great work he found all the elements needed to fully explore his writing combined in one genre. He went to college and received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, where he majored in English Literature, and he received his graduate degree from the School of Law at Washington & Lee University.Ī writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read. ![]() Terry Brooks was born in Illinois in 1944, where he spent a great deal of his childhood and early adulthood dreaming up stories in and around Sinnissippi Park, the very same park that would eventually become the setting for his bestselling Word & Void trilogy.
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