Which Fictional Place Would You Live in if You Could Choose?

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Re: Which Fictional Place Would You Live in if You Could Cho

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Nathrad Sheare wrote:Rivendell! Hands down! What? Ivory spires, great falling waters, powerful, protective, and warm magic... Talk about great advertisement! :lol: Hm... Then there's Lothlorien... It's always nice and bright there... Choices, choices... :wink:
Lothlorien for me! It feels more protected and secure, but also peaceful and mysterious!

Rivendell seems more fun and lively, and while I like that - I'm totally about my peace
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Hogwarts. For reasons which in assuming are obvious =]
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Nathrad Sheare wrote:Rivendell! Hands down! What? Ivory spires, great falling waters, powerful, protective, and warm magic... Talk about great advertisement! :lol: Hm... Then there's Lothlorien... It's always nice and bright there... Choices, choices... :wink:
I agree, Rivendell!
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I would love to live in narnia! It sounds amazing with the snow and talking animals lol
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cyndiha11 wrote:Hmmn, I think I would rather enjoy an enchanted castle as well, or maybe in Alicante from The Mortal Instruments. I would probably get a kick out of being a shadowhunter ;)
Alicante!!! I would also love to live in Camp Half Blood.
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My issue with Middle Earth is magic is leaving the land. My problem with Narnia is that it's pretty much a parallel to Heaven, and everyone has died in those books. I can't live in Stephen King's world unless I'm a supporting character (I wouldn't last long). OOOh, I know. I would live in Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic location, The Winding Circle. It's a temple and most of the characters have magic.

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cogarae wrote:I would love to live in narnia! It sounds amazing with the snow and talking animals lol
I agree with you, however, "Narnia" is only one small country in the middle of a huge world with so many other cultures and locations. Also, at the end of the first book, the long winter ends and Santa comes to town! There is so much more the the series than just snow and talking animals.
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This is a bit like seances where the medium tells the person that they were a prince or princess or some other celeb. But statistically, someone 400 years ago would be 99% peasants or serfs or slaves, living in total poverty and squalor.

Folks who would like to be in the Harry Potter universe have to understand that the chances are high that they'd be "muggles" (ordinary folks) and have zero connection with the wizard things. And anyone who thinks about living in a kingdom like Narnia has to also realize that the aristocracy of a feudal lifestyle is built on a huge population base of peasants. And the chances are that you'd be one of them, life expectancy of 35 maybe.

Which is why I choose the big space wheel in 2001. No feudalism, no rulers. Democracy.
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This is a difficult question, like moderntimes, I tend to think to literally about what kind of world it would be. My spouse says the Star Wars universe, but that place is always having whole planets destroyed and crazy rulers fighting. I love fantasy and scifi worlds, but most have some overbearing issue or fault. I think, if anything, I would want to live with ancient Celts in rural Ireland or the Vikings in the Slavic regions. I believe this is mostly due to my heritage and upbringing, but I could see myself in those places easier than anywhere else.
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There's so many good ones to choose from! Right now I'd say The Shire...it seems peaceful and relaxing, a place where no one really bothers you. But I might want to have a little Baggins in my blood and go off adventuring at one point. But the coziness of The Shire sounds very appealing.
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This for me was very easy! The first place that came to my mind was Narnia from Chronicle of Narnia series. As a child, talking to animals seems to be the coolest thing ever, so to be in a land like that would be AMAZING!!!
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Kelewan from the riftwar series by Raymond Feist.
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Of course, living in the Shire, you'd have to have fuzzy feet, eh? ha ha
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moderntimes wrote:Of course, living in the Shire, you'd have to have fuzzy feet, eh? ha ha
I hadn't thought of that. I actually hate wearing socks and shoes though, so that is just one more reason I belong in the Shire! :D
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I love the settings of fictional books where it is kind of medieval, where people still fight with bow and arrows and sword. Somewhere magic exists also. The first place that comes to mind is Alagaesia from Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I am obsessed with dragons, so a world where they are real and able to speak is a world for me!
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Wonderland. I wonder what a caterpillar would say if it could talk.
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