Talk:Terry Brooks

message: It was my understanding that he also did the screenplay for Hook, no?
Concerned citizen
I don't know about screenplay but he did do a novelization for it and for the Phantom Menace, finished Shannara and started a new series.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.142.36.59 (talk) 20:52, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hook 

message: The concept of different races working together against a dark lord is not a new plot.  Brooks has been considered to be
a modern day Tolkien, because his writings are very similar, but hardly plagarism.
* "The concept of different races working together against a dark lord is not a new plot." -- I'd be interested in hearing of pre-Tolkien examples of this, from the original poster (page history says it's 12.41.204.3 ), or from anyone else. -- 01 November 2005
*Well if thats the case, hundreds of authors would be accused of plagarism.  Perhaps George Lucas and his Star Wars movies is nothing but plagarism because his concept is of different races uniting against a dark force.--Jason Fox 14 December 2005
* The similarities run deeper than that.  A quiet young man and his plucky companion set out on a quest to defeat a returning evil by use of an ancient talisman; in both books, the enemy has been powerful twice before, and his attempt to rise a third time is thwarted by the band of heroes.  The plot is literally the same.  A small party sets out from the quiet village Shady Vale/The Shire in search of the wizard Allanon/Gandalf (who started their quest in the beginning), stop in a medium-sized city (Leah/Bree - hmm, I never even noticed the rhyme) run into an ancient and inexplicable old man (The King of the Silver River/Old Tom Bombadil), then proceed on, slowed by spirits/Ringwraiths until they at last reach a haven of peace and power (Culhaven/Rivendell) where a team is assembled from different races, sets off on a mission, travels at length to the ancient Paranor/Moria, where the fellowship breaks and the two original characters set out on their own to defeat the Warlock Lord/Sauron while the others go help out in the wars the enemy is initiating all over.  The main questers then defeat the Warlock Lord/Sauron with the help of the repulsive Orl Fane/Gollum who is really more interested in the Sword/the Ring than helping them out.  I really don't understand what Terry Brooks was thinking.  It's one thing to be mildly derivative, but it's quite another to borrow a book's plot and characters wholesale and then sprinkle in some minor changes.  - Batkins 02:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tolkien 

message: Terry Brooks's website has a list of future projects with a timetable, only some of which appears here. Would it be good to add the others?
http://www.terrybrooks.net/next.html
Parableman 18:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say no, per WP:CRYSTAL. Terry simply changes his mind too often. However, we could certainly include that link. The Evil Spartan 21:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planned Works 

message: I went to his official web page today, http://www.terrybrooks.net, and it apparently isn't there anymore.  It seems to now be hosted by one of those generic cyber sitting web sites.  What happened to his domain?  I checked the whois info on it and it says it was leased in 1999 until 2015.  This doesn't make any sense to me.--75.15.211.78 (talk) 04:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well he got it back sometime in the last twelve years so crisis averted. 158.142.36.59 (talk) 20:58, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  TerryBrooks.net 

message: It looks like nothing is really in motion to make a Brooks movie according to his newsletter , so I removed the film adaptation section.  The adaptation by Mike Newell that was specifically referencing in the section is not happening.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.179.12.68 (talk) 02:33, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film adaptation 

message: Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:33, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good source