“I Would Never”
Lesson 6. A Student Essay
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If I were a wizard, I would never tell anyone about it, and would just practise magic in my spare time. I would rather look like Tom Bombadil than Gandalf. I would speak in verse, and my neighbors would consider me a local lunatic. Peter Jackson would not invite me to his trilogy, and I would not make a penny from it. But even if he had invited me, I would not have come. The Ring would have no power over me, and I would not be involved in the bureaucratic squabbles of both wizards and film studios. I would live in New Zealand and have no desire to sail to the Uttermost West. Although I understand that all this sounds more like an exercise in conditional tenses than a real argument in favor of a hobby.
