03-27-2008, 01:35 PM | #1 |
The Ñoldóran
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Which character do you relate to the most?
I was just curious to find out which character in Tolkien's legendarium everyone feels themselves to have most in common with. This doesn't have to be your favorite character, or even a character you particularly like - simply the character in which you see the most of yourself.
For me, it's Fëanor. And no, I'm not saying I'm like him because I'm the greatest of my race or some other egotistical rant , but because I know what it feels like to burn inside with some unsatisfied longing. I studied political science because that burning has led me to care passionately about making the world a better place, and ridding it of some of the bad things that are marring it. And I've always been able to understand his isolation from everyone else, and how that passion can lead to loneliness, and the burning passion that drives him almost to insanity. And I've been able to understand that burning anger that can lead you to do things that you are ashamed of afterwards. I guess the story of his downfall really touched me, because I could see myself - if put in the same situation - making the same mistakes. There but for fortune, I suppose. So, that's me. What about everyone else?
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