favorite "lord of the rings" character

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from the novels or the movie...either one will do.

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

All the years reading the books, I would probably have to say...toss up between Aragorn and Gandalf, in the end. The former for his moody ways (he really is very goth without even trying -- MOST serious ;-)), the latter because, well, it's him. :-) Sarcasm and honest laughter both, very cool.

In light of the movie version, I'd stick with that, but I have to say Elijah Wood really brought Frodo to life more effectively than I would have thought.

Least favorite character -- boy, Tom Bombadil is hard to deal with after a while. Still love him, though. How about Lotho Pimple? All that build-up at the end and he doesn't even have a line! Then again, he had been et. And that one nurse at the Houses of Healing scene, argh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Tolkien's best character was Gollum. People who think of LOTR as a simplistic 'good vs. evil' story always seem to overlook him. When I first read the books I thought it was a shame Bilbo had such a small part in LOTR, since I always thought he was a more fleshed-out character than Frodo, but I suppose his personality wouldn't have suited the more serious tone of the later books.

― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 18 August 2002 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

as good guys go, i've always liked aragorn, who translates especially well as a reluctant hero in the film. gandalf and the ents run just behind...

the nazgul make such impressive villians; so anonymous and oblique, like cousins to eliot's "hollow men"...always dug the scene where their leader takes back his hood to reveal nothing there...

― mike (ro)bott, Sunday, 18 August 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

That dude who is like the forest ranger or something

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 18 August 2002 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

liv tyler

― ron (ron), Sunday, 18 August 2002 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah! liv tyler, I saw "Stealing Beauty" the other day.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 18 August 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Garn Buri Garn, leader of the Wildmen.

he is wild.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 18 August 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

the pukel men!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 18 August 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i like BEORN but he is from Tha Hobbit so um. Gandalf is grebt in any form, as are the Nazgul (and sooooo scary in the film). Aragorn was always a bit of a bleh for me in the book, but Viggo Mortensen is really, really good in the film. and gollum is by far the most interesting if you're going to start getting all "all things philosophical in LotR" about it all. cripes sorry i've got to work now byee!

― katie (katie), Monday, 19 August 2002 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

OOH OOH. Well, upon re-reading FOTR last night - PIPPIN aka Peregrin Took is a favourite of mine - he's the geezer! I'm not sure where all this 'Aragorn Son of Araunwashed' worship comes from - he is a nob. And Arwen is rub as well. GANDALF k-grebt, Frodo and Sam are wets and weeds, Merry and Pippin = ones for the husband list and GIMLI son of Glóin is hilarious, especially in his little fights with Legolas. Saruman and his ORCS = the bad guys who I shall FITE against grr argh. Faramir is a bit too much of a square jawed hero dude for me.

Elrond half-elven = cool if only for the contemptuous putdown of a race that has DONE MIDDLE EARTH WRONG ie "men"!

Also - the madness of Denethor is SUPERB.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 19 August 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

merry and pippin are a bit too relentless comic relief in the film, i liked them beter in the book (sorry sarah!) BUT you are correct about frodo and sam being wets and weeds. this kind of makes me like them all the more though, i'm a big gurl when it comes to supporting the underdog. poor old frodo is just so PUT-UPON, bless his hairy toesies.

― katie (katie), Monday, 19 August 2002 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"it will never really heal, sam"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Goldberry.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

What are the scare-quotes for?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

what the hell ARE scare quotes anyhow? is it just a fancy interweb name for quotation marks?

― katie (katie), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"no"

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"oi!"

― katie (katie), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The girly blonde guy.

― toraneko, Monday, 19 August 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but they are all girly (they are elves = they are gay i mean fey)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Eowyn and Faramir. Of the Fellowship, Aragorn (his EYES are FAB in the flim) and Sam.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

boringly, Fritz interjected, "it's got to be Samwise in the long run, doesn't it? I mean, you can go through the whole books thinking your #1 dude is Aragorn or Gandalf or Bilbo or fookin' Tom Bombadil but by the last page, who doesn't love Sam best?"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"boo"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sam is da King!!!!

That's why the book is called that!!

― DO YOU SEE!! (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually perhaps it IS Aragorn in the film after all - LET'S HUNT SOME ORC!!! Hahahahahahahahah GENIUS ahahahahhahaa.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's hunt some sequels! Oh wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 August 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it now common knowledge that Tom Bombadil and Goldberry spend all their time shagging and that's why he's always so keen to get back to her?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Glad we could get that cleared up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

bombadil & goldberry => i totally think that's intetionally implied => one of the reasons the ring = evil is it causes ppl not to have sex (bilbo/gollum = virgins, aragorn/arwen = saving themselves, legolas/gimli = exception that proves the rule)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

sarah did you read the whole thing in one night?

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I would rather be evil (hey, that LOTR personality test did say I was Saruman) than be a dirty, smelly hippie (Bombadil & Goldberry). B&G acted like they were these dope-addled trust-fund deadheads who do face painting to earn weed money, I was so happy they were not in the movie.

No wonder Sauron wanted to destroy Middle Earth, if this is the kind of chuckleheads that populated it!

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah more of the BALROGS sez I. (Ron I only managed to get abt 3/4 of the way through before falling asleep).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Dildo Ballbags

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

B&G acted like
they were these dope-addled trust-fund deadheads who do face painting to earn weed money

They were unsurprisingly painted as such in Bored of the Rings, renamed Tim Benzedrine and Hashberry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tower of Orthanc in a phallic symbolic, This-is-a-big-willy sort of way. Deffo not Edoras (Thatched, detached bungalow) and as for hobbit holes... nuff said.

― William Whizz (William Whizz), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

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― banriquit, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

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