Aragorn and what's scary was High price of victory/LOTR

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

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

Now, now. My comments on Aragorn's character were  a defense of 
Tolkien's literary skill, not a reflection of any supposed feelings of 
a  personal nature I might have toward a fictional character. Right. 
And I'm the Minister of Magic. 

	And the Nine Riders are definitely scarier than the 
Dementors...for weeks after the first time I read LOTR, every time I 
turned out the light I feared that the Nine would creep out of the 
shadows and get me.... shudder. Tolkien's villains are very *old*, 
that's part of it... there's a sense that this is a very ancient evil 
and no mere mortal stands a chance against it.

Pippin
 who would give up her seat on the Grey Ship for Aragorn anytime, 
youbetcha.