High price of victory/LOTR

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> --- 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

Very interesting.

It's true, we don't love Tolkien's characters the way we love Harry 
and Dumbledore...and certainly no one is lusting after characters in 
LOTR!

LOTR is more like an epic -- like Homer, or Paradise Lost

My son is listening to the LOTR tapes, and watching the videotape
...I often hear Tolkien in my head (but where will I find courage?
that is what I chiefly lack), and can recite three rings for the , 
etc...or all that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander 
are lost, the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots etc.
It has wonderful glimpses of home in the Shire, and who has not 
wishes to stay in the house of Elrond, the last homely house......
but it's not as real or personal as HP


I think Sauron is more frightening than Voldemort because V was just 
killing people..Sauron was destroying the land and the air and the 
water as well..

Susan