Private Eye Prime Minister of the day. The style is chosen to mock the perceived foibles and folly of each Prime Minister: Not all of "Private Eye"'s parodies have been unsympathetic. During the 1980s, Ingrams and John Wells wrote fictional letters from Denis Thatcher to Bill Deedes in the "Dear Bill" column, mocking Thatcher as an amiable, golf-playing drunk. The column was collected in a series of books and became a play in which Wells played the fictional Denis, a character now inextricably "blurred [with] the real historical figure", according to Ingrams. "Private Eye" also contains a variety of regular mini-sections, consisting
The Eye of the World the Dragon Reborn, but her opinion and all other details of the final battle are kept from all the male members of the group except Lan. Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of "The Eye of the World" to evoke the Shire of Middle-Earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". Despite their similarities, these two works also differ in themes. For instance, both Jordan and Tolkien created narratives that explored power. However, the Eye of the World discussed how it can be deployed whereas The Lord of the Rings was more