Ring Up The Hobbit, Times Two
The settlement of Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's suit with New Line paves the way for MGM to start work on two prequels.
''Their make-believe and, by extension, other play forms, is constrained by the roles, scripts and props of the culture they live in.'' Lancy pointed to field studies of a Mayan community in which children teach their younger siblings how to pretend in the most pedestrian of ways, ''focusing their attention on washing, caring for babies and cooking'' — no magic there.
pedestrian (NOT INTERESTING)
adjective FORMAL DISAPPROVING
not interesting; showing very little imagination:
Her books, with few exceptions, are workmanlike but pedestrian.
His speech was long and pedestrian.
pedestrian (WALKER)
noun [C]行人
a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go:
A few pedestrians carrying their evening shopping sheltered from the rain in doorways.
The death rate for pedestrians hit by cars is unacceptably high.
The government should not put things on pavements! Don't they know it's dangerous for pedestrians?
pedestrianize, UK USUALLY pedestrianise
verb [T]
to make an area into one where vehicles are not allowed to go:
They are pedestrianizing the town square.
adjective FORMAL DISAPPROVING
not interesting; showing very little imagination:
Her books, with few exceptions, are workmanlike but pedestrian.
His speech was long and pedestrian.
pedestrian (WALKER)
noun [C]行人
a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go:
A few pedestrians carrying their evening shopping sheltered from the rain in doorways.
The death rate for pedestrians hit by cars is unacceptably high.
The government should not put things on pavements! Don't they know it's dangerous for pedestrians?
pedestrianize, UK USUALLY pedestrianise
verb [T]
to make an area into one where vehicles are not allowed to go:
They are pedestrianizing the town square.
pre・quel 
━━ n. 本編より時間的に以前の物語を扱う続編.
prequel
noun [C usually singular]
a film, book or play which develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc:
Jean Rhys's novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'.
Compare sequel.
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