[SecretKeeper]

Well, technically the subject is a questiong entitled: "Would it be possible to travel to other worlds through dreams."

I have this niggling plot bunny I'm going use so I can get rid of it because its being a pest but it includes Middle-earth, a bus load of kids, a phys-ed teacher, an english teacher and a wacky Pakistani bus driver who is definitely going to be my favourite character of the whole bunch.

Now, my question ties into this plot bunny by adding the 'serious' factor to it. Dream travel as stated clearly upon the subject heading.

[SpaceWeavil]

Do you mean like astral travelling? Or just having a dream where the person dreams they are in ME? If you're doing a 'it was all a dream fic', one thing I would say is please don't use that as a way out of an interesting plot - as an example, I read ages ago (when fan fic was in fanzines and there was no internet ) a ST:TOS story where an OFC fell onto the Enterprise, and knew all the starfleet stuff because she was a fan etc, and so was arrested as a spy and such. The author built up a really good story and had us wondering how on earth she was going to get her OFC out of this situation, when suddenly 'it was all a dream'. Really disappointing for me as a reader. I've seen that scenario done a lot in TV as well, and I never like those episodes (Gerry Anderson has at least one in every series he makes).

If you're talking more an out of body experience thing, I have seen that done in fics, so I would expect you could think up a way for it to work. I mean, technically that's what I've done in Bodysnatcher, sort of, though not quite. Ramble ramble (ignore me).

[SecretKeeper]

Thanks Spacey for the tip. Nah, it's more of a someone is a bit of a seer and she is destined in all worlds to travel to places outside the realm of her birth to stop evil. Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer with her destiny as one girl born unto a different generation to basically save the world. Now this girl sleeps quite a bit and if she goes into a coma, she could very well bring an apocalypse into her physical realm depending on what she does within the dream.

This ties into Middle-earth when Sauron finds all about this through his filthy, evil ways and having various encounters with this girl especially during the making of the Rings. He begins to figure out that this girl could be a key link in his ruling the entire universe as we know it! So, he begins plotting ways to get this girl into Middle-earth with really dark magic and yadda yadda yadda. Grr....I'm giving the entire plot idea away. Do you think its cheesy or should it be scrapped?

[summerbutterflie]

On the question of cheese: (just my humble opinion)

I have found in my experience that even cheesy plotlines can work in the right context. It's how you write them and work them that counts. If you can take an old idea and make it fresh and appealing, Velveeta can become a Sharp Cheddar, you know?

Raise your bunny. I think it could be fun. Besides, it sounds like you already have a good handle on your characters.

[SecretKeeper]

Thanks Summer, hmm....I just don't want it to be laden over with cheese and overpower the Lord of the Rings story. I kind of wanted an adventure within the adventure. I'm thinking that Sauron wants said seer/dreamer and in the process he sends to her physical realm, balrogs/orcs/foul beasts because he basically forces her into a coma by hi-jacking her dream. He doesn't realize a glitch that happens. While in the process of 'travelling' to the other world...he pulls said girl with a bus load of people with her. Think consequence for every action.