This week’s topic over at the Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday’s is a freebie – so you can come up with whatever you like.  Actually, I found it tougher to come up with a topic than I thought, in fact I tried about 5 other topics before this one! Ten ‘things’ items, characters, magical things, that you want to keep out of any book:-

1. Oberon – I would totally steal this dog.  From Kevin Hearn’s Iron Druid Chronicles Oberon is great fun, he has a sense of humour, he watches films, he obsesses about sausages and he’s a good friend and protector.  Yes, I have no shame, I would steal this dog!
2. Jean Tannen from the Gentleman Bastard series – I know, I know, but I love this guy and he’s a definite keeper.  Thank you Scott Lynch.
3. The pile of gold coins, jewels and other goodies that Smaug is sat on top of!  I know that money can’t buy you happiness but I could certainly have a good time spending some of that!  Finally, my own library!  Just, can somebody distract the dragon first because being burnt to a cinder isn’t in the plan??
4. My own spren – not figured out what type of spren would attach themselves to me exactly but I like the idea (bookworm spren?) – even if you look like you’re sometimes talking to yourself!  Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings/Words of Radiance – spren are a bit like having your own personal fairy but are invisible to others if they choose to be so.
5. I would quite like one of those Wardrobes that comes with it’s very own world at the rear – real escapism!  The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis.
6. Howl’s Moving Castle – it could take me to work every morning – just depending on which door I choose to open – in fact it could take me almost anywhere?  Diana Wynne Jones.
7. A Pensive – because sometimes my memory is like a sieve – JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
8. Sam Wise Gamgee – he’s a gardener right?  Who has enough hours in the day.  He could do my garden and he’d be happy, my garden would look great and, well, it’s one less chore in the day!
9. Legolas – just because he comes in handy in a fix.  Not that I’m planning on a war with the Dark Lord any time soon but this guy can bring down huge beasts, and shoot 20 orcs in a New York minute whilst skiing down a wall on top of a shield.  Not quite sure when this will come in handy but, you never know!  Plus he can clearly colour and straighten hair – that could be useful…. some day… or not!
10. A Babel Fish – stick this fish in your ear (yuck, but) and you’ll be able to understand any language, even Vulcan, Vorgon, Elvish – you name it.  A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams