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Overwhelmed eh? :shock:

 

*sniff*

 

Tolkien got me started on fanasty. WoT and Lotr have several distinctions, which separate them greatly, so...

 

1) Women have regular roles in Lotr (one major female character!)

2) Lotr was written in the "myth" style. Tolkien wanted to give England another mythical history other than Arthur and Merlin and the what nots.

WoT was written as a fantasy of its time.

 

Well, as a last effort, maybe you'd all like this more. :cry:

 

Frodo: Eijah Wood

Gandalf: Ian Mckellen

Aragorn: Viggo Mortenson

Gimli: John-Rhys Davis

Legolas: Orlando Bloom

Pippin: Billy Boyd

Merry: Donomic Monguh... can't spell his last name.

Sam: Sean Astin

Boromir: Sean Bean

 

You want more actors? :|

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Never read one cover to cover.

Looked over Morgoth's Ring, and read bits of the Second Book of Lost Tales.

 

I just truly have a passion for Maiar. Or comparing my knowledge of Tolkien to someone who knows something of it... :wink:

 

Okay... If you can name all the actors, who played Grima Wormtongue?

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Overwhelmed eh? :shock:

 

*sniff*

:| Always intended to read it' date=' but people keep putting me off. Perhaps you'll do the opposite!

 

Tolkien got me started on fanasty.

I think Terry Pratchett and then Robert Jordan got me on to fantasy. In fact, I'm going to put an acknowledgemet to Jordan in my currently-in-publication book! :cry:

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well galdalf is the protector-the one who urges both frodo and bilbo to leave their peacefull and carefree life and go on a quest..he dies so that the hero-in lotr- or leaves in the hobbit so that the hero can continue his great journey by himself

same thing happens in the sw and the wot

Personally-and from much important sources :shock: all the women in lotr are great heroes and important to the saga

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Eowyn: Minranda Otto

 

Wormtongue: Brad Doruf

 

If you want... most of the six female characters in LOTR had less than a page of dialouge acredited to each.

Lord of the Rings spoilers ahead!

DO NOT BUY THE MOVIE'S INTERPRETATION OF ARWEN! It is far from Tolkien's plan for the Elf princess.

 

Eowyn, on the other hand... Was indeed a fighter at heart. Arwen was Aragorn's girly girl.

 

Female Characters in Lotr and what they did in the WotR:

Arwen: Made a banner for her boyfriend behind the scenes and gave Frodo her place in Valinor.

Eowyn: Made a total idiot of herself and ended up finding the man of her dreams and killing the most feared sevant of Sauron. :wink:

Roise: Married Sam.

Ioreth: Talked about herbs, ran errends for Aragorn, and nearly pushed Gandalf too far off his own nerves. (only Pippin had done that before)

Goldberry: Weird as her husband.

Galadriel: I know some things about her you all wouldn't even know how it came about. One of Tolkien's most detailed characters.

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Wormtongue: Brad Doruf

 

Hey, I knew one! :shock:

 

The lack of many fleshed out female characters is a drawback to reading LotR for me. I remember reading it when I was a girl and feeling a little left out that I couldn't be like nearly perfect Galadriel, mystical Goldberry, or strong Eowyn. :| The rest of them never made a deep impression on me. It's good to have a balance, and not assume only males (straight white males no less :cry: ) are interested.

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I can't include Goldberry as a female character, she is too... too... too not human. She isn't anything I know of.

 

Galadriel... Mightest of the Elves left upon Middle Earth, in fact, second strongest ever. Cate Blatchet or something like that, I am terrible with spelling last names! Trust me, she's far from perfect. She had the weakness of the Noldorian Elves, arrogance.

 

Overly mystic (or mystic seeming) characters:

Galadriel

Goldberry

Gandalf

Tom Bombadil

Denethor (despite lack of magic, he holds himself like Galadriel or Gandalf)

 

And Kaitlin, do note that it was hard for me to associate with one character as well.

The all-round perfect Aragorn

The all-knowing Gandalf

Dwarves and Elves, too much to one side on issues I don't care about.

The deeply compasionate Faramir

The over-proud Boromir and Denethor

The lost Pippin

The calculated but fun-loving Merry; way too hard to imitate.

Frodo... Lordly yet meek... weird.

Sam, finally, the ORDINARY MAN. But with no common roots with me.

 

Eventually, today, I find myself closest to Faramir, but it isn't easy then. I am not that obedient.

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There are certainly more men to identify with, at least in parts of their personalities. :twisted: That's no real slight to JRR, as many writers of that time tended to write for men. :lol:

 

And I still believe that Galadriel was nearly perfect. Her arrogance was only one major character flaw, and also something she got the better of. Most people have a few more knocking around inside their heads, and don't always pass the test. :razz:

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That arrogance cost her alot more than is obivous. She hated living in Middle-Earth by the time of Lotr but she refused to go back to Valinor. Her arrogance also made her leave it in the first place, against the will of the Valar. If she was a little girl, she'd earn a spanking, or three, everyday for the next hundred years with the behavior she exhibited in the First Age.

 

My personal biggest flaw is by far my vanity, who'd ever hear a vain man admit to it?

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