High price of victory/LOTR

[Rosmerta]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> JRRT is the better writer, IMO *ducks*, but I don't love his 
> characters the way I love so many of JKR's...

Having just re-read the Hobbit for the first time in, uhm ::pauses to 
figure:: 22 years and dipping into LOTR again, I agree with both of 
Amy's observations, but I wonder why they're so. Someone (Tolkien I 
mean) who created an entire language, universe, history of 6 or 8 
different kinds of peoples, etc., could just as easily have created 
more quirky characters, it would seem. Maybe he was afraid he'd lose 
that epic feeling if the players were too individualistic? The 
exception, IMO, is in the bad-guy department: Sauron is hands down 
scarier than Voldemort, I think.

~Rosmerta