Tony Walker

And I love Tom Bombadil.

You know the Rings of Power that Amazon did?

I did really try and watch that.

I watched the first series, and Tom Bombadil appears in that, doesn't he?

But I lost interest in it.

It just didn't carry me at all, so I haven't watched the rest of it.

Yeah, The Phantom Coach is interesting, going back to that, because we could probably talk about this for three or four hours, all the different stuff we've mentioned.

but um the the thing about that that that wizard in the house in the snow on the moors there you don't even need that for the story if you if you cut that whole bit out the story would pretty much function man gets lost on snowy moors gets a lift in a coach turns out no spoilers but you know um but probably people can guess so um yeah but but yeah what is who is he he's some kind of megasaur um

Where she got him from?

I don't know.

Because I think at that time, there was that guy who wrote a book called The Magus, Barrett.

And it was a very influential thing in mid-Victorian times.

So maybe she lifted him.

These sort of alchemist type figures.

Yeah, I don't know.

But there we are.

So...

I was going to say, you know your style of the prose, the prose, that was probably the final thing I wanted to say about the story itself, was it was...

quite measured quite stylistically different i mean you know a lot of stories these days are very demotic is the word isn't it whereby you know jeff is on the bus and he's eating his mcdonald's and then he sees do you know what i mean it's very much uh and he's on his phone to his mate and they're talking about you know love island or whatever people talk about uh but yours is is almost

It's more like Varney, to be honest.