High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruis.HIGH DRUID OF SHANNARA High Druid of Shannara is a trilogy of fantasy novels in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks. Set 20 years after the events of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara : JARKA RUIS. Terry Brooks. 2003. Read by Scott Brick. Books on Tape. 10 cds. No time listed. $104.00.0-7366-9492-7 Vinyl; plot notes. SA This volume of Brooks' enormously popular Shannara series is the first book in a new trilogy and takes up the action of Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Jerle Shannara, King of the Elves, is a fictional character from Terry Brooks' Shannara series of high fantasy novels. A historical figure in the original The Sword of Shannara trilogy, he is one of the main characters of the prequel novel : Morgawr 20 years later. The former Ilse Witch, Grianne Ohmsford Grianne Ohmsford is a fictional character in Terry Brooks' Shannara fantasy novels. Biography Grianne Ohmsford was abducted from her burning home when she was a young child by a powerful and evil warlock called the Morgawr, who knew that the power of the Wishsong held by , is supposed to be grooming a new collection of Druids druids (dr  `ĭdz), priests of ancient Celtic Britain, Ireland, and Gaul and probably of all ancient Celtic peoples, known to have existed at least since the 3d cent. BC. ; but when she goes missing from her guarded bedroom it's her adolescent nephew Pen, elf Ahren Elessedil and his niece Khyber, and Grianne's own servant, Tagwen the dwarf, who combine forces to rescue the High Druid of Shannara. Read quite dramatically and formally by Brick, this epic fantasy may seem formulaic to some extent for some listeners. Others will be thrilled to be back in the land of Shannara and will look forward to the next two entries in the trilogy to discover more about Pen and Ahren. The names, of course, are complicated, the characters are many, and the story is long. Brick's rendition ren·di·tion n. 1. The act of rendering. 2. An interpretation of a musical score or a dramatic piece. 3. A performance of a musical or dramatic work. 4. A translation, often interpretive. attempts to deliver a somewhat multi-voiced performance. Bette Ammon, Director, Missoula P.L., Missoula, MT |
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