Nar, loved your story about Tolkien and the lady with the cattle farm. Gently discouraging her from naming a heifer "Arwen"! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img], My, the letters that man must have gotten.
I just went on a nostalgia trip and rented Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal". Now you could argue that an archtype is an archtype, so we can ignore most of the similarities, such as the Gelflings.
But "Podlings"? I'd say that was a tip o' the hat to "Halflings", wouldn't you? (Thank the One that halflings don't bounce when they run, though.)
Sadly, Henson's marvelous creatures just don't seem to hold up in the face of CGI technology. But that doesn't bother me as much as the script. AIIIIIIII, the script! How did I ever think that movie was good?
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