06-01-2009, 07:32 PM | #61 | |
Elven Warrior
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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. Quote:
"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. |
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07-17-2009, 11:58 PM | #62 | |
Ring-smith
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Either walking across Rohan or riding through Fangorn forest
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Well... Do I have to be human in this given fantacy world?
Because the dragons in Eragon and it's sequils are waaay too powerful, and so I'd like to go there as a native dragon, just sit there and nap for eons... Not worrying about brave knightly heroes (because everbody seems to reguard those dragons as almost divine), not worrying about instinctive lust for gold (because apearantly the dragons in Asglasia don't want treasure), and not worrying about the political state of the world, because it'll never work out
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07-29-2009, 04:16 PM | #63 |
Deus Ex Machina
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I wouldn't mind settling in Dream's kingdom, from the Sandman graphic novels. Awesome (if slightly scary) employer, infinite library, access to any fantasy world in existence, and beyond most worries about dying.
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