Which Character is your Favorite?

[Fixed_Cross]

Who is your favorite Lord of the Rings character?

• Frodo
• Bilbo
• None of the above
• All of the above
• A specific ork

Boromir was always my favorite. How he died. He died well. People who die well are good. They are sound. Take some silent path.

‘some things we have discovered’, mumbled the old elf as the purple unicorn wandered off. He could no longer see his shadow, the sun was right above him, and he was going forward without a trace.

[Mr_Reasonable]

I choose none of the above because I’ve never read/seen it.

[Artimas]

I chose Bilbo. He is the beginning of the story, and also the end. I just found that interesting. Plus his story was just awesome… and the cartoon was better than the first LOTR cartoon.

[perpetualburn]

@Mitchaell Heisman

The Battle of Mount Doom is nothing less than an Anglo-
Saxon fantasy of the Battle of Hastings in which William the
Conqueror, symbolized as Sauron, is defeated. Elendil was
killed by Sauron, just as Harold was killed by William’s
Normans. In this truly fantastic reimagination, however,
Elendil’s son Isildur redeems his father’s defeat by chopping
off the One Ring from the hand of Sauron (the Conqueror)
with his father’s broken sword. In this way, the physical,
historical presence of the Norman conqueror was
catharsized from Tolkien’s mind from the very beginning,
and the rest of epic centered upon achieving the final
riddance of the evil Conqueror spirit.

The mythic opposite of the One Norman Master Ring are
the various rings of lesser power that represent racial
autonomy, independence, and self-control: three rings were
given to the elves, seven to the dwarfs, and nine to men. The
“Fellowship of the Ring”, then, consists of representatives of
the various non-Norman races of the British Isles, united in
their desire throw off the Norman Yoke and put an end to
that ‘evil empire’. The clearest racial link, for example, is
between the dwarfs and Celts (Scots and Irish).

The key to understanding the apparently Nordic racial
characteristics of the Elves is to recognize that the Normans
were also Nordic Scandinavians. The Elves can be
understood as one half of a bifurcation within the Nordic
race between descendants of (Danelaw) Vikings in Britain
who were conquered by the Normans and the descendants
of Vikings in France who became Normans. Just as Gollum
was once a Hobbit, Orcs were sometimes conceived to be
enslaved Elves, twisted into evil soldiers.

Tolkien polarized extremes of good and evil so that the
Elves embodied the good Christian virtues of Nordics, while
the evil Nordic Norman conquerors were blackened beyond
racial recognition as Sauron and his followers; Nordics who
betrayed their Germanic roots in favor of ‘virtueless’ French
civilization. The Elves of his imagination were as fair, good,
wise, and immortal as Sauron and his Orcs were ugly, evil,
morally ignorant, and mortal. Tolkien’s “Hastings” was the
consummation of the moment of Sauron the Conqueror’s
mortal fame, not his immortal fame.

Men are warriors. The men of Rohan, for example, were
warriors that rode on horses. Perhaps Tolkien fantasized that
if only the men of England had possessed cavalry like the
Normans, the catastrophe of 1066 could have been averted

[The_Golden_Turd]

Lord of the Rings in a bunch of homoerotic midget mansweat. It could of just as easily taken place in a sauna of explorative perversion as middle earth, wouldn’t of changed the story much either way.

[MagsJ (Surya Loka)]

Not read the book, and only caught snippets of the movie, so none!

[phoneutria]

Galadriel.