Fantasy worlds you would actually like to live in (RotE Spoilers)

[FoolishGirl]

I'd live as a witch in the magical world of Harry Potter...Second to that would absolutely be within Middle Earth.

Agree and agree! Would have to stick close to Rohan and Eomer (Karl Urban), though!

[Narya]

I have thought about this question, concerning Middle Earth. Being an engineer, and a woman, I know I would not be welcome there - Tolkien was not interested in seeing the industrial revolution in his realm. Though not quite so bad, I'd still be a fish out of water in Gernia, RotE, Westeros, Discworld, Riverside (Ellen Kushner), Earthsea, or Narnia.

As Woody Allen once said (and I paraphrase) "I would not want to live in any time period before antibiotics."

I'm so used to the division between pre-industrial fantasy (HP being a notable exception), peri-industrial steam punk, and "modern" or futuristic sci-fi, that it is hard for me to step out of that mindset and put myself into anything but sci-fi.

I don't mind stepping into the mind of a person completely unlike myself (say, a drug-impaired, mind-reading, murderous young man), but I wouldn't want to spend my life there, being someone I'm not.

['thul]

The greatest problem most would have in stepping into a fantasy world is probably in adapting to how heavy, and large, the world is. Modern times have a number of conveniences that reduce the need for heavy musculature. The fact that information travels slowly will also impair many. Even the flow of information in aSoIaF with its extensive messenger system, or in relatively small worlds like Kristen Britain's Green Rider world, is slow, a lot of mistakes happening because of lacking information.