Goodreads asked Windu Thorne:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Windu Thorne I would step—barefoot and unannounced—into the whispering realms of Middle-earth, but not to join grand quests or battle dark lords. No, I’d head straight for the Shire, to learn the art of stillness from hobbits who understand that a well-tended garden is as noble as any throne.

I'd spend mornings walking through dew-laced fields with a pipe I don’t know how to use, learning names for clouds and birds I’ve never seen. Afternoons would be for storytelling under trees older than memory, sipping ale that tastes like forgotten laughter.

And at twilight, I’d find my way to Lothlórien, just once, to sit beneath the golden mallorn trees and hear the silence that even elves pause to listen to.

What would I do there? Exactly what I seek to do here—listen deeper, feel slower, and remember that magic lives in the small things we rush past.

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