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"Galadriel here climbs frozen waterfalls and battles snow trolls and sea monsters while Nori takes on the Frodo role of the halfling with an eye for adventure. But in almost every other way the first two episodes feel like old hat."

A quick playbook for those who haven’t delved into this world before: Players announce their characters, along with their characters’ classes, levels and races — dwarf, elf, halfling, gnome, dragonborn.

In his afterword to “Rise of the Halfling King,” David Bowles writes about the hieroglyphic script developed centuries ago by Maya kingdoms, noting that “the closest modern equivalent” he can think of for this “highly visual” way of recording stories is the graphic novel.

Our “halfling king” has arrived.

“Rise of the Halfling King” is a straightforward folk tale, with the usual good and evil archetypes and the expected ending.