[Child of the 7th Age]

You wake up one morning with a splitting headache. Perhaps your socal engagements the evening before were a bit strenuous! But wait,...something definitely seems unusual. You are in a very strange place that you have never seen before. There is a door to your right and a door to your left, and you are in the middle. Oh, yes, a voice booms out and explains that you have fallen into an interdimensional portal. If you go to the right, you will return to your own universe, all the people and things you know and love. And if you go to the left, you will enter Middle-earth sometime in the middle of the Third Age.

Now this portal has some Rules. If you are a man(or woman), you have to stay a man or woman, ie. no side trips to Aman, no turning into a hobbit, or anything like that. The Master of the Portal, being a kindly sort, however, will allow you to bring along a few close family and/or friends to Middle-earth, since she (you heard me right!) knows you might be quite miserable without such. And this is for real--no going back, no bringing along your computer, etc.

So, do you go right or left? And why do you make that choice? Also, if you choose left, any ideas on where you might want to live? sharon, the 7th age hobbit