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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 5405010" data-attributes="member: 27051"><p>A few things stand out.  My dad used to tell me awesome bedtime stories when I was very little - some were reinventions of fairy tales, while others were made up stories about friendly monsters going on adventures.  I was also interested in myths and folk-tales from a very early age.  I remember being fascinated by The Snow Queen and the Orpheus and Euridice myths when I was 5 or 6 years old.  I recall watching early Star Trek episodes (on a black and white tv) and not really understanding what was going on but finding it thrilling all the same.  And then my mum lent me her copy of The Hobbit... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>