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Old 05-12-2009, 04:23 AM   #1
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...we could jump in at any point, experience the world of the story from the place & time of any of the characters - in fact, like Frodo we too could skip from 'The House of Tom Bombadil' to 'The Grey Havens' omitting completely the intervening 900 pages.....
That sounds like a summary of the premise for Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next' books, and wouldn't it be fun to jump into LotR or the Hobbit - provided we could keep out of danger's way in doing so?!
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Old 05-12-2009, 09:51 AM   #2
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That sounds like a summary of the premise for Jasper Fforde's 'Thursday Next' books, and wouldn't it be fun to jump into LotR or the Hobbit - provided we could keep out of danger's way in doing so?!
lo! And who would play Thursday's Miss Haversham for us? Galadriel?
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