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Yours sound really neat! I’ve made up some animals, but the only plant I’ve made up is dragonweed, which I have made up a lot about.

@andrew, sorry I’m late. Nice new picture!

I’ve made up a lot of different races. Elverines have pointy ears, slanted eyes, three spikes on there arms and one spike on their heels and giant insect wings. Nargams are small long-limbed creatures who love climbing. Ragmen are covered in ragged fur. Allegers have no knees, and they have much shorter…[Read more]

How do you win?

You know you’re a writer when you say you’re a writer and you spend lots of time planning your books and then wastes most of your writing time on SE.

@wordsmith not even Nimaine could outdo one, with all her armies and powers.

@kate and @daeus-lamb I guess I should read The Silmarrilion. I started it, but what a challenging read!

If you mean what I think you mean, then 100 Cupboards has (not too many) POV switches. It switches from Henry to Richard to Henrietta to Uncle Frank to Fat Frank to Coradin to Nimaine to Mordecai, and back and forth between them.

@wordsmith, a clarifying question. Do you mean POV switches where it is from the first person?

@wordsmith, I don’t know which series I like better. I love them both.

You can’t learn timewalking! You have to be born of the right race. (Or so I think. I haven’t read The Last of the Lost Boys, so I may be wrong. Most likely am wrong.)

Having reread 100 Cupboards I think I have changed my mind. Greenmen are too cool. And I love faeries.

@wordsmith, I love that part! That is so well descripted.

I love all his descriptions of Henry, Kansas. It makes me want to go there.

@wordsmith, I have read lots of books with lots of POV jumps, and I enjoy those books a lot. I don’t think there is a problem with POV jumps.

@wordsmith, have a gambler.

Do you prefer 100 Cupboards to Outlaws of Time?

Eyore is so quotable.

@happyholly_c @skredder

The cat of Bubastes is by Henty? I really like that book. (though it was a long time since I read it.)

My mom read it to me, so I actually didn’t read it even.

I have also read With Wolf in Canada, which I knew was by him.

@andrew had names that people could use in his forum, Characters!!!!!!!!!!!!

@daeus-lamb, I cannot answer your question about allegory versus symbolism. Sorry. I do think that Lord of the Rings is kind of depressing since there is no salvation. After death, there is nothing, and I didn’t like that particularly.

There is a lot of symbolism in LOTR, from the ring representing sin to Aragorn, Gandalf, and Frodo representing…[Read more]

@brandon-miller, I agree, the last one was a little heavy. This will be better.