Dana
> OMG OMG JIM NO WAY!!!!!!! I've been daydreaming about a writing a
> book about warrior rabbits. I hope this book isn't anything like I
> have thought of!
>
> Main character in my "book" is Timsivole. :-D
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Davis
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:50 PM
> Subject: RE: urgent watership down questions
>
>
> One of my all time favorite books - ever.
>
> I know you're on a deadline but READ IT. READ IT NOW. NOW! I read
> it at
> least twice a year and can breeze through it in a few days - you read
> the
> last few hundred pages in a sitting - you just have to.
>
> There were quite a few rabbits and several journeys. Lemme see. from
> memory
> (so I may be wrong):
>
> When leaving the Sandleford Warren there was Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig,
> Silver
> (another young member of the Owsla brought by Bigwig), Dandelion (very
> fast,
> teller of stories), Pipkin (very small, friend of Fiver), Blackberry
> (very
> intelligent, conferred often with Fiver), Speedwell, Hawkbit and
> Buckthorn
> (I remember them called "decent enough rank and filers"). I think
> that was
> it. but I could be wrong.
>
> Along the way they picked up Strawberry from the "warren of bones".
>
> Bluebell (a jokester and Holly's closest friend) and Holly (former
> leader of
> the Sandleford Owsla) came later after the disaster at Sandleford.
>
> That's the main group. they got a few more from Nuthanger farm
> (Boxwood and.
> somebody else) - this is where Hazel was almost killed.
>
> The final "big" trip was to Efrafa - a completely militaristic warren.
>
> There they liberated many rabbits (about 10 or 12) and only some had
> names.
> and although I can remember the name I can't honestly remember how to
> spell
> any of them.
>
> I do have an ebook of this if that would help you in the short term,
> but
> READ IT. Most of the rabbit names are contained the glossary at the
> end.
>
> As an aside this is one of the all-time great adventure stories: we
> need a
> long, epic live-action version (using computer generated rabbits) -
> Peter
> Jackson doing anything after "King Kong"?
>
> If you need more I can look it up in my (completely overused) copy.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> _____
>
> From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:53 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: urgent watership down questions
>
> I know, how urgent could a question be about a book that's been out
> for
> years?
>
> Well -- I am on deadline with this game design project based on
> Watership
> Down and arg, questions have arisen that I don't know the answer to.
> And my
> copy of the book is not to be found.
>
> So can anyone please tell me
>
> How many rabbits were travelling together? There was Hazel, Bigwig,
> Fiver ..
> and? anyone? I can't remember but if there were others I need to make
> NPCs
> for them so any details you can remember would help me.
>
> How many does did they rescue? I thought they rescued them from a farm
> but a
> synopsis of the film I found on Google seems to be saying that they
> were in
> a warren. Is this a difference between the book and the movie?
>
> What was the name of the General? He was at the warren right?
>
> Weren't there two other warrens after they escaped from the one they
> came
> from... one where men were setting traps and one that was all
> militaristic?
>
> Not finding this on Google, at least in the first three screens of
> "watership down" or "synopsis watership down" so please refrain from
> suggesting that.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Dana
>
> _____
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