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Old 11-25-2008, 06:02 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by wayrad View Post
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Here's a simultaneous sendup of Tolkien and Eddings:
"ANGLO-SAXON COSSACKS live in the Steppes and breed HORSES. They try to look like HORSES themselves by wearing their hair in ponytails. They ride often, expertly and acrobatically. In fact, they show off rather."
If I remember rightly (it was over 20 years ago), they feature in the Thomas Covenant Chronicles too, though Donaldson had a variation: the "anglo-saxon cossacks" never actually rode the super-sized horses?

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