Aragorn is *not* dull was Re: LOTR and the Imperius Curse

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Pippin wrote <eloquent defence of Aragorn>
> 
> You're right on all counts.  I think one reason I don't like Aragorn 
> is that he's one of the worst offenders in the Everyone Starts Talking 
> in Really High, Noble Speech part of the book.  I think Tolkien should 
> have spared us all of that.  But that's just MHO.

You definitely have a point. But MHO the worst offender is Faramir. I 
challenge anyone to read his coronation speech, the one that starts 
'Men of Gondor, hear now the Steward of this realm', out loud without 
laughing. I can't :)
	Tolkien does say that part was largely written by the scribes of 
Gondor, rather than the Hobbits. Too bad Sauron didn't get them all <g>
Pippin