My heart belongs to Middle Earth and I suppose being a Noldorian living in Imraldis (Rivendell) would work for me. I would want to spend my days in the Smithy and nights in the Grey Room. I would want to visit the Prancing Pony on an irregular basis and go have a long conversation with Tom & Fangorn. Maybe stay a few years with the Elves of Ithilien, helping them & Faramir rebuild Ithilien.
If not Middle Earth, I would like to be in either the Science or Engineering department of the Federation. Especially if I could work with Scotty or Spock or be the Scotty type on another vessel. Got to love a soceity were mini skirts were uniforms.
Narnia & Star Wars have no appeal for me.
Harry Potter would be ok if I was a wizard and hopefully a member of the order of the Phoenix. I think being either a student of Hogsworth or a muggle would be dreadful.
Narnia is out. Aslan should have stayed dead, if you ask me. Why? Two words no skiing. Plus, there appears to be very little sex in the place.
Middle Earth is more appealing, except for lack of refrigeration, microwaves, and mochas. No thanks.
HP is better, but if to be in it means going back to school, no thanks. Been there, done that. Magic is fun, but there seem to be too many limitations on it. The food is appealing, though. A big negative is that all the women are old, weird, or jail bait.
Star Wars is it. You’d get to travel in space without paying Virgin $200K, you get a robot as a friend, and lots of cool aliens (and a few dipsticks.) With all the chaste Jedi, less competition. Though I would not want to live during the time of the first three movies - depressing to know the leadership is evil or stupid. I get enough of that in the real world.
I’m far more of a camping/outdoorsy/horseback sort, and as long as I were of a long-lived race, or had some inclination to magic, I’d have much more time to dable in more of my ever expanding interests.
Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar world would be pretty cool. I’d be a Tayledras, and live in an ekele, with my bondbird, where hertasi would wait on me while I soak in hot steam pools.
Personally, of the choices listed, I would take HP, for reason’s already given. However, now that Mercedes Lackey’ has been mentioned, I’ll take her SIERRAted Edge series. Just like ours, but with ghosts, dragons, elves (dignified ones) righteous causes, and all the rest.
I’d best like to be a Lord of Shadow, and a loyal son of Amber…
But restricted to the OPs four choices, hm, let’s see:
Narnia: IANAXian, but love the books and certainly imagined visiting Narnia as a child. I must admit, it’d be really cool if it were all true and I was on the right side of it all. I’d love to just be a deckhand on the Dawn Treader maybe. And seeing a universe end like in the Last Battle would be mind-blowing. Then again, the Christian concept of Life Everlasting in some kind of afterlife seems like it would be pretty boring after a while…
LotR: Er, you did say “fighting against evil”, right? Frankly, fighting Orcs and Trolls and Mûmakil and whatnot seems pretty terrifying. Not to mention the Black Breath. I wouldn’t mind hanging out in Rivendell for a while though.
Star Wars: I agree with Priceguy, being a Jedi Knight was the way-coolest thing my inner 10-year-old could possibly conceive of. Of course what my 10-year-old self did not consider was the oppresiveness of that vow of chastity and poverty and whatnot. Plus all the Jedi that we know of except for Yoda and Obi-Wan, get killed off with 100% certainty, which is not exactly a strong recruiting pitch.
Harry Potter: Well, let’s face it, this is the closest thing to our own reality… In fact, by not totally ignoring the Muggle world, one could still log in to this very message board! (Funny, do you think any HP wizards of Muggle origin would sign on to World of Warcraft?)
In the end I guess I’ll go for LotR over Harry Potter. I’ve read Potter as an adult, and much as I like the story, it just can’t catch up with Middle Eart in the time-in-my-life-I’ve-spent-fantasizing-about-its-world department.
My wife just reminded me that I must definitely pick Middle Earth, as I have an interest in righting certain historical distortions that I have unearthed in the past… Specifically, my Apologia for Saruman, and the related Apologia for Smeagol.
Having done so much, er, research on these topics, I certainly owe it to my clients to meet them in person
Middle Earth - too boring. (Quit telling me those books are good! They’re duller than John Kerry.)
Hogwart’s - too twee.
A galaxy far, far away - The winner out of this bunch. But if I had my real choice, I’d say “Star Trek.” There are WOMEN in the Federation. Women in miniskirts. Women that put out. Women that are not evil ice queens or your secret relatives or underage jailbait or whatever was wrong with Tolkien’s women, I mean he went into such detail on every little thing because he was such an awesome writer writing an awesome epic and oh yeah, women scared him because he mentions one fleetingly and never takes up the subject again. Women must have shot Tolkien’s dog or something.
I don’t think there’s twenty women in all four options combined. I like women once in a while, dang it. Send me to the Enterprise.
Which adults are interesting, the 100’s of teen girls don’t count unless we are to be teen boys again.
I can only think of 1 young and attractive adult female in the books and she likes Lupin.
His point was Star Trek TOS always had lots of young single females that apparently lived a 60’s lifestyle and weren’t worried about STDs or Pregnancy.
The Star Fleet Uniform for Women were also the most consistantly attractive for males.
