How long does it take to read The Elfstones of Shannara?
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks takes about 11 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Shannara
Previous: The Sword of Shannara Next: The Wishsong of Shannara
About 11 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1982. 608 pages, about 167,200 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ancient, ultimate evil threaterned the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellcrys, the tree created by long-lost elven magic, was dying, losing the spell of Forbidding that locked the hordes of ravening Demons away from Earth. Already the Reaper, most fearsome of demons, was free. Only one source of protection was powerful enough to stop it: The Elfstones of Shannara. The stones and the right to use them belonged to Wil Olmsford, given him by his grandfather Shea. Allanon, legendary Druid guardian, summoned him from his studies in Storlock to protect Amberle, the elven girl who must carry a sees of the tree to the mysterious Bloodfire, life-source of earth, there to be quickened and to creat a new Ellcrys. While Allanon and the Elves fight a hopeless war against the emerging demons, Wil and Amberle plunge forward in a seemingly impossible quest to find the Bloodfire.
Subjects: Fiction, Shannara (Imaginary place), Elves, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, American Fantasy fiction
