What fantasy world would you live in?

[Amael]

Middle Earth, in orbit, looking down with my super powerful telescope from the future, just seeing what's all going on without being seen .... just in case some of my old friends happen to decide to start a little fun of their own.

But seriously, I'd live on Betazed from the Star Trek series. It's a telepathic society. It's also quite the oceanic world .... more so than Earth I think. That's kinda cool. Everybody knows what everyone else is thinking, so there's no reason to be paranoid and talk at length about something everyone already knows, like politics. I had to look up best possible worlds to find out that Betazed would be one of them.

If it had to be a place on Middle Earth, I'd choose Hobbiton. It's quite distant from the ravaged by war East that everyone already knows too much about. But Valinor is better than all of what Middle Earth has to offer, combined. The One Ring was more valuable than all of the Shire, when just one building in old Tirion is far more valuable than the ring.

Elf? Spare me. Live with the Lakemen? And do what? Rohan, to run a late second to his horse? Gondor? WTH are the women, there? Where is Bergil's mom?

Seriously, I must agree with that statement, completely. Rohan is wood, Gondor is stone, Mordor is iron and fire, Rivendell and Lorien are wood + stone + water and in not so good times, fire. Plus the Elves taught the Ents how to talk in their language. Pssh, the self interest of the Elves never ceases to parallel with that of the men, and I'm one of those Elves!

"Men, above all else, desired power." More or less, both desire a great deal of power. Elves just have a better way of hiding that intention. Hobbits and Ents ... don't desire power. They already have it. If a hobbit like Samwise Gamgee can bring down a spider dozens of times his own weight, with nothing more than some little sword and acrobatics, that's saying a lot. When Isengard throws some of its force into Helm's Deep and nearly blows the place apart, while the Ents smash Isengard into splinters of wood and stone as if they do this as a mere daily exercise, that's also saying a lot. But of course ... Elves did slay Balrogs. But who's to say an Ent or Hobbit couldn't? They just didn't get the chance yet! Balrogs negate most magic done to them, so a man, Hobbit, or Ent would stand just as good of a chance. When magic is useless, Elves aren't the Balrog take'em down experts. But then again .... there are those special kinds of wizards too. But they're rare, very rare.