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Introduction - How This Book was written & Thanks

 One day when I was in 6th grade, I was reading Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien. At that time, I had a deep obsession for fantasies, and it was not very surprising or me or anyone of my family when they found out that I had read Lord of the Rings.

 I found it very inspiring and well-written, since it was a very good and thick book that a professor had written. It was better than other fantasies I read earlier. I soon fell I love with that book, and now our family has not only the complete LOTR series, but History of Middle Earth (also known as HoME), too.

 At that day, I thought, 'What if I write my own fantasy?' It was a very crude idea at first. I had only two to three main characters and though I had a basic idea of what they are going to do, I never really came up with the details. I tried to tell the story to my twin sister, but my descriptions were useless in painting the details of the very scene I wanted to tell. So, I closed the idea in my head. And it stayed there for about a year.

 On a day on March this year, the idea of my own book suddenly came to me again. So, I started writing for real. After some polishing of the overall plot and setting, a basic storyline for Elpidion was born.

 While writing this book, I express my thanks to my parent, sister Crystal, friends Hwang, Kim, and Yoo, and boy friend Bae. I'm already happy enough when you are near me.

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