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Huinesoron · 05-13-2020, 07:59 AM

I have recently seen a more fantasy-oriented variant on this that instead adds "And then the dragons arrived", which works spectacularly well for The Hobbit, and pretty darn well for the rest of Tolkien:

Once upon a time there was a little dog, and his name was Rover. He was very small, and very young, and then the dragons arrived.

Ægidius de Hammo was a man who lived in the midmost parts of the Island of Britain, and then the dragons arrived.

There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make; and then the dragons arrived.

hS

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05-13-2020, 07:59 AM	#13
Huinesoron Overshadowed Eagle Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: The north-west of the Old World, east of the Sea Posts: 3,974	I have recently seen a more fantasy-oriented variant on this that instead adds "And then the dragons arrived", which works spectacularly well for The Hobbit, and pretty darn well for the rest of Tolkien: Once upon a time there was a little dog, and his name was Rover. He was very small, and very young, and then the dragons arrived. Ægidius de Hammo was a man who lived in the midmost parts of the Island of Britain, and then the dragons arrived. There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make; and then the dragons arrived. hS