Unworthy

[The Saucepan Man]

I spent much of my lunchhour today trawling round the bookshops of Charing Cross Road in search of The Atlas of Middle Earth (successfully, I'm glad to say). And I noticed that all of the major book-shops have a separate Tolkien section, albeit next to the fantasy and sci-fi fiction sections. And it included not just the books themselves, but also guides, companions, books of illustartions, the atlas and biographies of JRRT. Now this may just be a product of the rise in popularity of the works in the wake of the films, but it seemed to me to be appropriate.

Sorry for being so ignorant- who's Terry Brooks?

Author of the Shannara series, books of the fanatsy genre. I wouldn't recommend that you bother educating yourself. I have only read one of the series, but I would tend to agree with Nimrodel:

Terry Brooks, which IMHO really STINKS

In my opinion, they are vastly inferior attempts to copy the style of LotR.