
Terry Brooks started writing The Sword of Shannara in 1967, when he was a twenty-three year old law student at Washington and Lee University.

Also, the Elves are slowly beginning to re-emerge after staying hidden for a very long time. There are Men, Trolls, Dwarves, and Gnomes. Since the apocalypse, the surviving humans have mutated into several distinct races – all named after creatures from old myths. The first book of the series, The Sword of Shannara, is set 2,000 years after the apocalypse. The setting of the adventures is a post-apocalyptic world called the Four Lands, where magic and pre-industrial technology exist side by side in the damaged landscape that remains after a chemical and nuclear holocaust caused the fall of a previous civilization and wiped out most human life on the planet.

Shannara is a high fantasy book series written by Terry Brooks and published in 1977-2020.
