Terry Brooks fantasy books

[Galadriel]

Have any of you ever heard of Terry Brooks? I recently discovered his books in our library and I'm starting to like them.
This one The elfstones of Shannara I'm reading right now. As I see, they are part of a trilogy, but our library only has one or two books of the same topic.
I wonder if any of you know these stories?

[Elliot Kane]

Heard of him... He always seemed like a cheap Tolkien rip off from what I heard, though, so I never bothered reading him. Sorry KE...

[Galadriel]

I must say El, whatever those people said, I don't agree. The story lines are completely different, and there is nothing of humans, elves, orcs and such like in Tolkiens stories. It reads easier then Tolkien, but to say it's a rip off, I do not agree really.
In fact, every story about elves and humans can be said as a rip off from Tolkien, just cause he's the most famous fantasy book writer.

[Elliot Kane]

Also the most influential... He invented Orcs, which you now see everywhere, and popularised the Norse conception of elves as opposed to the 1/2 inch high faerie versions that were all most people thought of before. No-one even considered Dwarves in the way he did, and... well, I could go on for a long time. Tolkien IS the father of modern fantasy, after all. No-one is more influential in the genre than he is

[Galadriel]

You're probably right el, but in Terry's books I haven't met an orc yet. So far, it's all about Elves and a certain tree that is dying, the Ellcryss

[Alrik]

I've got a single book by him which impressed me very much.
The GErman title would be - translated into English - "the Shadows of Shannara".
I won't give anything away from the plot, but this book touched me very much because of the fate of the main characters.

It is very original, I'd say, because it shows ideas I had never seen before in any form.

I can recommend it.

This is the only book by Terry Brooks I know.

And no, it has nothing to do with anything Tolkien had written. So it can't be no "rip-off", no matter what he did in his other books.

[Ubereil]

I read some of his book when I was younger, but somehow I lost interest and stopped (they never got anywere IIRC). He's one guy I might read after the Weel of Time though. And after Otherland. And most Terry Pratchett books. And who knows what else (there are some Robin Hobb books I havn't read yet, and I have to give Thomas Coveant (by Stephen Donaldson) another go). Not to mention all the NON-Fantasy I am to read ;D.

Übereil

[wyrdrune]

Terry Brooks is something of a prolific author...

www.terrybrooks.net/novels/index.html

I've got most of the Shannara series, and I've been meaning to re-read them; this post may have given me the nudge I needed to move them to the (metaphorical) "re-read" pile. :-)