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One day, when Fievel Mousekewitz, the cute yet brave little mouse hero of Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg's An American Tail fame, visited the Great Library of Atlemûria (which is a building similar in size and even architecture of Earth’s very own New York Public Library) on the breathtaking Atlantis-like island nation of Atlemûria, the greatest civilization on the world of Ten'Jad, the eponymous Planet of the Toons (or Cartoons) of the title of my epic work, and having saw the signs of war throughout Ten'Jad while on the Seeing Observatory, Fievel the mouse flips through page after page as Fievel the mouse searches ancient scroll after ancient scroll, and book after book, all of which were placed high on some kind of wooden table in the lower depths of the Great Library. And soon enough, Fievel's eyes settled eventually on one old parchment, complete with an Aztec/Mayan/Mesoamerican-style illustration of a mouse with a reddish stone on its paws riding a fierce lion as it pounces on a wicked warlord (Mandark Astronomenov, lord of Tsam-Khar, the Dark Tower of the Land of Ardynut, and also the Mandark Astronomenov of Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory and Ego Trip infamy) about to strike at an Ancient Shangharan warrior or hunter holding what looks like a spear in the heat of battle.

The following text that Fievel Mousekewitz reads from the old ancient document is translated from Atlemûric, the language of the Atlemûrean islanders, or rather, the Atlantean language and alphabet from Disney's ill-fated Atlantis The Lost Empire from 2001 to our English here:
"The thirtieth year of the One Hundredth and Sixth Age...

"Here lies the account of Ara-Elinor, Ruling Queen of Atlemûria, and the Valor of the Lion, the Mouse and the Hunter:

"This beast has come to the rescue of the hunter, the lion of Shanghara! The Lion, the Mouse and the Hunter themselves shall be famous heroes for my kingdom, and all those who has fought alongside them shall be grateful for their victory against Mandark, Lord of Tsam-Khar, the Dark Tower of Ardynut.

"Indeed, this primitive hunter, and his mouse and lion friends, turned out to be very brave in battle, in spite of the loss of my cousin Pharao in combat.

"As for the amulet that the mouse has used against the lord of Ardynut, the sparkling quality began to glow intensely from the red stone against the darkness, resulting in a powerful light as intensely clear as a red flame, a secret now that only fire can especially tell."

To elaborate from the lore about the lion, the mouse and the hunter (an obvious reference to the Aesopian fable of the Lion and the Mouse) and how they were involved in the struggle against the Atlemûrean queen Ara-Elinor, her people, and her lordly cousinly advisor Pharao against the minions of Mandark, Lord of Tsam-Khar, Dark Tower in the land of Ardynut, which led to Mandark's exile some two thousand years before the events of the Great War of Mice and Men (which refers not to a line from a Robert Burns poem called "To A Mouse" which says that the best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry, or to a certain John Steinbeck novella from 1937 also called Of Mice and Men, which is about Californian farm workers, one of whom, a big and strong bodied yet child-minded fellow, accidentally kills a girl who happen to be the wife of one of the farm hands in that story, but rather to the epic struggle of the forces of good led by Fievel, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dexter the Boy Genius and three live human astronauts from late 21st century Earth who visited and explored the toon planet Ten'Jad against the forces of the evil Mandark Astronomenov, lord of Tsam-Khar, Dark Tower in the Land of Ardynut over Fievel's older sister Tanya Mousekewitz (or, specifically, and in particular, the Fievel Goes West version of her as voiced and sung by The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's original voice actress Cathy Cavadini), who, according to a local prophecy, is not only bound to be a famous singer, but also destined to take down Mandark and his minions with the help of one of the human spacefarers from Earth as well as her little brother, the aforementioned Fievel Mousekewitz, in order for Tanya to bring everlasting peace and freedom back to the entire planet of the cartoons):

"They all made an united league of nations called the Lost Children of the World and they began their long, epic march eastward into the interior of the Old World gathering together a great host of local volunteers, and they occasionally halted at Shahsepolis for a little while.

"Now, to be clear about that, they say that the host that was assembled there was much fairer and more splendid in arms than any that has ever been seen on Ten’Jad now, and none greater than any that has ever been mustered since the host of the Avatars and the Mara’Vari went against Aku on behalf of the allies and friends of the Samurai that they called Jack.

"From Shahsepolis they crossed the Tural Mountains by many, many passes, and marched all the way down the mighty river Sāigo, and they eventually came at last upon the host of Mandark on Tartakan Pūrenil, the Battle Plain that lies before the gates of Taigon in Shanghara. All living things were divided into those of living flesh and blood and those composed of living ink and paint. Some of every kind, even beasts and birds, were found in either host as well, including the Atlemûreans and their lion, mouse and hunter allies.

"All were undivided, however, and followed Ara-Elinor, Pharao, Shizrai the lion, Azanya the mouse and Li’Shân the hunter, son of the Ten’Jai chieftain, and they all fight back against Lord Mandark and his host. The host of Ara-Elinor and Pharao had the most victories, for the might of the Atlemûreans in those days were great as the Atlemûreans themselves are strong and tall and terrible in their wrath.

"For example, none on the side of evil could stand against the Spear of Virtue which Pharao borrowed from the Ten’Jai chieftain, while for another example, the sword of Ara-Elinor filled Strong Borgs and enemy men and evil toons alike with fear, for it not only shines with the light of the twin suns as well as that of the moon, but also spouts magic flames that is the color of emerald green around its curved blade to ward off those on the side of evil. This sword is called the Emerald Flame because of this latter enchanted property of the weapon.

"Eventually, all the Lost Children of Ten’Jad passed into Ardynut and surrounded the stronghold of Mandark. They laid siege to it for a full seven days but not before suffering grievous losses by cannon and gun fire and by the darts and arrows of the enemy, for Mandark sent many sorties against them. There, in the valley of Khönd, The Prime Minister of Picardia was killed along many others of his own company.

"The following week after that, the siege was so great and so near to victory that Mandark came forward to do battle. He wrestled with Pharao, and Pharao himself was slain.

"But Mandark was ultimately thrown down when he was about to grab Li’Shân the hunter with his hand and strike him dead, when Azanya scurries up to the tyrant and bit the evil lord in the hand, weakening him, and seizing the chance to kill him, the mighty lion Shizrai pounces on Mandark and mauled him to death by the neck. The Tyrant General of Ardynut was vanquished for a long time yet to come, forsaking his physical form and body and allowing his spirit to run far, far, away and hid in the stars far beyond Ten’Jad, never again to take any more visible shape or form that seem fair enough to all for two thousand years yet to come.

"The servants of Mandark were routed and dispersed, but they were not entirely destroyed, and while some people turned away from his evil and became subjects of the house of Lucason, some still remember Mandark in their hearts and hated the kingdoms of humanity. Tsam-Khar was leveled down but its foundations were left intact for Mandark’s tower was never forgotten. Some Atlemûreans set a guard upon the land of Ardynut, but no one dared to live there due to the terror that the memory of Mandark had evoked, and because of the fiery mountain that stood near Tsam-Khar while the valley of Khönd was still covered in ash.

"Many of the Atlemûrean warriors and their comrades among their worldly allies, human or toon, had perished in the battle and siege of Ardynut, and the prime minister of Picardia and Ara-Elinor’s cousin Pharao were killed in battle as well. Never again was such a host assembled for two thousand years to come."

Now, if my whole entire epic work on Planet of the Toons were to be especially a movie, and especially with the use of IMAX scenes as well as ultra-widescreen imagery (similar to those in the 1959 Ben-Hur movie), and even with a very seamless and astonishingly real or believable blending of mainly traditional 2d and actual hand drawn animation as well as live action and some kind of digital 3D CGI effect or compositing trick, I bet that whereas Robert Zemeckis' 1988 live action/animated classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a mock film noir cartoon comedy crime caper, my whole entire vision and prospective work on the Planet of the Toons epic of mine is actually going to be more of a science fiction fantasy action adventure epic that is also to rival even Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings movies at least in terms of its adventurous thrills, artistic depth/worldbuilding detail, and/or even emotional power or something.

Description
One day, when Fievel Mousekewitz, the cute yet brave little mouse hero of Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg's An American Tail fame, visited the Great Library of Atlemûria (which is a building similar in size and even architecture of Earth’s very own New York Public Library) on the breathtaking Atlantis-like island nation of Atlemûria, the greatest civilization on the world of Ten'Jad, the eponymous Planet of the Toons (or Cartoons) of the title of my epic work, and having saw the signs of war throughout Ten'Jad while on the Seeing Observatory, Fievel the mouse flips through page after page as Fievel the mouse searches ancient scroll after ancient scroll, and book after book, all of which were placed high on some kind of wooden table in the lower depths of the Great Library. And soon enough, Fievel's eyes settled eventually on one old parchment, complete with an Aztec/Mayan/Mesoamerican-style illustration of a mouse with a reddish stone on its paws riding a fierce lion as it pounces on a wicked warlord (Mandark Astronomenov, lord of Tsam-Khar, the Dark Tower of the Land of Ardynut, and also the Mandark Astronomenov of Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory and Ego Trip infamy) about to strike at an Ancient Shangharan warrior or hunter holding what looks like a spear in the heat of battle.

The following text that Fievel Mousekewitz reads from the old ancient document is translated from Atlemûric, the language of the Atlemûrean islanders, or rather, the Atlantean language and alphabet from Disney's ill-fated Atlantis The Lost Empire from 2001 to our English here:
"The thirtieth year of the One Hundredth and Sixth Age...

"Here lies the account of Ara-Elinor, Ruling Queen of Atlemûria, and the Valor of the Lion, the Mouse and the Hunter:

"This beast has come to the rescue of the hunter, the lion of Shanghara! The Lion, the Mouse and the Hunter themselves shall be famous heroes for my kingdom, and all those who has fought alongside them shall be grateful for their victory against Mandark, Lord of Tsam-Khar, the Dark Tower of Ardynut.

"Indeed, this primitive hunter, and his mouse and lion friends, turned out to be very brave in battle, in spite of the loss of my cousin Pharao in combat.

"As for the amulet that the mouse has used against the lord of Ardynut, the sparkling quality began to glow intensely from the red stone against the darkness, resulting in a powerful light as intensely clear as a red flame, a secret now that only fire can especially tell."

To elaborate from the lore about the lion, the mouse and the hunter (an obvious reference to the Aesopian fable of the Lion and the Mouse) and how they were involved in the struggle against the Atlemûrean queen Ara-Elinor, her people, and her lordly cousinly advisor Pharao against the minions of Mandark, Lord of Tsam-Khar, Dark Tower in the land of Ardynut, which led to Mandark's exile some two thousand years before the events of the Great War of Mice and Men (which refers not to a line from a Robert Burns poem called "To A Mouse" which says that the best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry, or to a certain John Steinbeck novella from 1937 also called Of Mice and Men, which is about Californian farm workers, one of whom, a big and strong bodied yet child-minded fellow, accidentally kills a girl who happen to be the wife of one of the farm hands in that story, but rather to the epic struggle of the forces of good led by Fievel, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dexter the Boy Genius and three live human astronauts from late 21st century Earth who visited and explored the toon planet Ten'Jad against the forces of the evil Mandark Astronomenov, lord of Tsam-Khar, Dark Tower in the Land of Ardynut over Fievel's older sister Tanya Mousekewitz (or, specifically, and in particular, the Fievel Goes West version of her as voiced and sung by The Powerpuff Girls' Blossom's original voice actress Cathy Cavadini), who, according to a local prophecy, is not only bound to be a famous singer, but also destined to take down Mandark and his minions with the help of one of the human spacefarers from Earth as well as her little brother, the aforementioned Fievel Mousekewitz, in order for Tanya to bring everlasting peace and freedom back to the entire planet of the cartoons):

"They all made an united league of nations called the Lost Children of the World and they began their long, epic march eastward into the interior of the Old World gathering together a great host of local volunteers, and they occasionally halted at Shahsepolis for a little while.

"Now, to be clear about that, they say that the host that was assembled there was much fairer and more splendid in arms than any that has ever been seen on Ten’Jad now, and none greater than any that has ever been mustered since the host of the Avatars and the Mara’Vari went against Aku on behalf of the allies and friends of the Samurai that they called Jack.

"From Shahsepolis they crossed the Tural Mountains by many, many passes, and marched all the way down the mighty river Sāigo, and they eventually came at last upon the host of Mandark on Tartakan Pūrenil, the Battle Plain that lies before the gates of Taigon in Shanghara. All living things were divided into those of living flesh and blood and those composed of living ink and paint. Some of every kind, even beasts and birds, were found in either host as well, including the Atlemûreans and their lion, mouse and hunter allies.

"All were undivided, however, and followed Ara-Elinor, Pharao, Shizrai the lion, Azanya the mouse and Li’Shân the hunter, son of the Ten’Jai chieftain, and they all fight back against Lord Mandark and his host. The host of Ara-Elinor and Pharao had the most victories, for the might of the Atlemûreans in those days were great as the Atlemûreans themselves are strong and tall and terrible in their wrath.

"For example, none on the side of evil could stand against the Spear of Virtue which Pharao borrowed from the Ten’Jai chieftain, while for another example, the sword of Ara-Elinor filled Strong Borgs and enemy men and evil toons alike with fear, for it not only shines with the light of the twin suns as well as that of the moon, but also spouts magic flames that is the color of emerald green around its curved blade to ward off those on the side of evil. This sword is called the Emerald Flame because of this latter enchanted property of the weapon.

"Eventually, all the Lost Children of Ten’Jad passed into Ardynut and surrounded the stronghold of Mandark. They laid siege to it for a full seven days but not before suffering grievous losses by cannon and gun fire and by the darts and arrows of the enemy, for Mandark sent many sorties against them. There, in the valley of Khönd, The Prime Minister of Picardia was killed along many others of his own company.

"The following week after that, the siege was so great and so near to victory that Mandark came forward to do battle. He wrestled with Pharao, and Pharao himself was slain.

"But Mandark was ultimately thrown down when he was about to grab Li’Shân the hunter with his hand and strike him dead, when Azanya scurries up to the tyrant and bit the evil lord in the hand, weakening him, and seizing the chance to kill him, the mighty lion Shizrai pounces on Mandark and mauled him to death by the neck. The Tyrant General of Ardynut was vanquished for a long time yet to come, forsaking his physical form and body and allowing his spirit to run far, far, away and hid in the stars far beyond Ten’Jad, never again to take any more visible shape or form that seem fair enough to all for two thousand years yet to come.

"The servants of Mandark were routed and dispersed, but they were not entirely destroyed, and while some people turned away from his evil and became subjects of the house of Lucason, some still remember Mandark in their hearts and hated the kingdoms of humanity. Tsam-Khar was leveled down but its foundations were left intact for Mandark’s tower was never forgotten. Some Atlemûreans set a guard upon the land of Ardynut, but no one dared to live there due to the terror that the memory of Mandark had evoked, and because of the fiery mountain that stood near Tsam-Khar while the valley of Khönd was still covered in ash.

"Many of the Atlemûrean warriors and their comrades among their worldly allies, human or toon, had perished in the battle and siege of Ardynut, and the prime minister of Picardia and Ara-Elinor’s cousin Pharao were killed in battle as well. Never again was such a host assembled for two thousand years to come."

Now, if my whole entire epic work on Planet of the Toons were to be especially a movie, and especially with the use of IMAX scenes as well as ultra-widescreen imagery (similar to those in the 1959 Ben-Hur movie), and even with a very seamless and astonishingly real or believable blending of mainly traditional 2d and actual hand drawn animation as well as live action and some kind of digital 3D CGI effect or compositing trick, I bet that whereas Robert Zemeckis' 1988 live action/animated classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a mock film noir cartoon comedy crime caper, my whole entire vision and prospective work on the Planet of the Toons epic of mine is actually going to be more of a science fiction fantasy action adventure epic that is also to rival even Peter Jackson's three Lord of the Rings movies at least in terms of its adventurous thrills, artistic depth/worldbuilding detail, and/or even emotional power or something.