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"Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Esterland knew of them -- except, finally, the Addershag. The blind old woman had given instructions to find a place on the coast of the Blue Divide, build a fire, and keep it burning for three days. "One will come for you." Tiger Ty, the Wing Rider, had come on his giant Roc to carry Wren and her friend Garth to the only clear landing site on the island of Morrowindl, where, he said, the Elves might still exist, somewhere in the demon-haunted jungle. Now she stood within that jungle, remembering the warning of the Addershag: "Beward, Elf-girl. I see danger ahead for you . . . and evil beyond imagining." It had proved all too true. Wren stood with her single weapon of magic, listening as demons evil beyond all imagining gathered for attack. How long could she resist? And if, by some miracle, she reached the Elves and could convince them to return, how could they possibly retrace her perilous path to reach the one safe place on the coast?

The battle against the evil Shadowen continues as Walker Boh embarks on a perilous journey to recover the black Elfstone and restore the lost Druid keep of Paranor.

Since the death of Allanon, life in the Four Lands has drastially changed. Yet Par Ohmsford still has some power of the Wishsong. And when a message from the ancient Druid, Allanon, reaches them, Par is ordered to recover the long-lost Sword of Shannara, and the glory that once was the Four Lands....

De Jerle Shannara is het meest wendbare luchtschip dat ooit is gebouwd. Op dit wonder van nieuwe technologie, aangedreven door licht en tot de tanden bewapend, leidt de druïde Loper een expeditie van ongekend belang voor heel Shannara. Maar de bemanning is dood, gevangen genomen of opgejaagd door de volgelingen van de Ilseheks. De jonge Bek is ontvlucht en heeft de moed gevonden om de heks van Shannara - zijn zus - te confronteren. Ondertussen zit loper gevangen in een uitstrekt doolhof onder de ruinen van Kastellaber. Hij wordt daar, vlakbij de schat waar de expeditie om begonnen was, opgejaagd door een kolos die alles controleert wat er bovengronds en ondergronds gebeurt...

John Ross, the tortured, conflicted Knight of the Word from Terry Brooks's Running with the Demon , finally gets a good night's sleep in the sequel. He buys this moment's peace at the cost of his sacred oath to be a champion of the Word, renouncing that pledge after failing to prevent the slaughter of a group of schoolchildren. Duty and destiny are difficult to elude, though, and soon his former charge Nest Freemark, now a college student and Olympic hopeful, arrives to warn him of his imminent destruction, or, worse, his unwitting fall into the service of the Void.

Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic. Each Shannaran had a special death waiting for him- at the hands of The Shadowen-unless Par could find a way to free them all with the Sword of Shannara.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Expect no end of wonders and suspense, no shortage of adventure and enchantment, as Terry Brooks begins the next extraordinary quest in the magical world of Shannara. . . . Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witch. Fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhys, the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies. Even her few allies—chief among them her trusted servant Tagwen—know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now Tagwen joins Grianne’s brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescue—to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.

De jonge Pen Ohmsford heeft als taak gekregen zijn tante Grianne, de Hoge Druïde van Shannara, te bevrijden uit de Verboden Dimensie waar ze gevangen wordt gehouden. Samen met de nobele dwerg Tagwen en de elfenprinses Khyber Elessedil is Pen begonnen aan zijn missie, waar de toekomst van de Vier Landen van afhangt. Als hij ontdekt dat ook zijn ouders in handen zijn gevallen van Shadea, de kwade genius achter de gevangenneming van Grianne, wordt hij gedwongen zich in het hart van Shadea's rijk te begeven. In de triloige 'De hoge druïde van Shannara' worden Pen Ohmsford en zijn metgezellen gevolgd in hun zoektocht naar de mysterieuze boom die hun toegang verleent tot het Verboden Rijk en hen de kans geeft om de in toenemende mate bedreigde Aartsrhys te redden.

De Jerle Shannara is het snelste, meest wendbare luchtschip dat ooit is gebouwd. Op dit wonder van nieuwe technologie, aangedreven door licht en tot de tanden bewapend, leidt de druïde Loper de zoektocht naar een grote magische schat, die verborgen zou liggen op een afgelegen eiland in de Blauwe Deler. Maar hij is niet de enige: weldra maakt hij kennis met De Zwarte Maazeis en zijn sinistere bemanning - geleid door de machtige Ilseheks. Het Zwaard van Shannara heeft de Ilseheks eindelijk de waarheid doen inzien over haar ware afkomst, de geschiedenis van Loper en haar mentor die haar jaren voor de gek heeft gehouden: de machtige heksenmeester, de Morgawr. Juist als ze op het punt staat om zich over te geven, vult de hemel boven het eiland zich met oorlogsschepen. Het is de Morgawr, met zijn volgelingen van mwellrats, bandieten en levende doden. De Ilseheks ziet nu een kans om een leven van misdaden weer goed te maken...

When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one has ever returned. Until now . The rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols–and Walker Boh, the last of the Druids, has the skill to decipher them. But someone else understands the map’s significance: the Ilse Witch, a ruthless young woman who wields a magic as potent as his own. She will stop at nothing to possess the map–and the magic it leads to. Thus begins the first volume of a dazzling new adventure in one of the most popular fantasy series of our time