High price of victory/LOTR

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Schlobin at a... wrote:
> --- 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!

Someone is...  I nearly got an envelope full of Bubotuber pus when I 
slighted Aragorn on here a few months ago.  Also, check out ff.net.  
If you ask me, imagining LOTR characters having any lustful feelings 
is like trying to picture your parents in bed, but some people with 
better imaginations than mine seem to be having a go at it.  Shudder.

> 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..

And that Eye.  Shudder again.

Amy