The earliest story ideas centered around a king, described as 'Jen from Dark Crystal (1982), twenty-five years later' and his jester, Snotweed, . A shadow shaper (shape changer) cast a spell on them and kidnapped the queen (at that time described as 'Kira twenty five years later'). Dennis Lee completed a first treatment on April 11, 1983. He had removed the references to Jen and Kira and changed the central character to Taya, a fifteen year old girl. The dark prince became Jareth and Snotweed became 'Hoggle the warty dwarf''. The prince's only companion for seven years was now an unnamed baby. On October 31 1983, Lee, who was originally a composer rather than a writer, finished a poetic novella version of the treatment in which Taya became a modern girl instead of a princess, and he changes her name to Sarah midway through.

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