06-25-2005, 03:02 PM | #1 |
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What LOtR characters you find irritating?
Are there any characters in LOTR books (not movies) that you just can't stand? That you find irritating?
(I mean not guys like Sauron, but "good" characters that you are supposed to like.) My first choice is Arwen. I hate her, I hate her ... period . Then there is this Glorfindel. Why is he in ME at all, while he should be in Mandos? What good has he ever done in the 3 Age? Why hasn't he taken dying Frodo to rivendell on his horse ahead of the others? Why didn't he come with the Fellowship, at least to Gondor? Then I think some characters are boring. All the Ents and the Entwives. And also, sorry Legolas. They could have left him at home all right. |
06-25-2005, 03:52 PM | #2 |
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I think Boromir is kind of irritating. He just doesn't get it!
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Glorfindel also helped to keep the black riders from escaping the river. Glorfindel is one of many characters in LOTR that are brought in briefly and then fade from the readers sight. I think this helps to give LOTR a richness in texture that is not present in other stories. It may have been an oversight on JRRT for using a character that should have been at Mandos. (of course for those that have not read the SIL, then there is no problem. I am not sure if there are any characters that annoyed me. I think I was disappointed in Denethor's actions primarily since it hindered those who were battling against Sauron. At times I found Gildor (sp?) to be annoying since he and the other elves would not tell Fordo and company much about the black riders, besides run away.
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06-26-2005, 08:42 AM | #4 |
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We don't actually know if it is the same Glorfindel that killed a Balrog in Gondolin.
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And as for irritating characters - it is Galadriel for me. TD, Glorfindel of Gondolin is the same as the one in LOTR. That was Tolkien's final decision, as far as I know. And I agree with CS, why bother to return to ME if you sit in Rivendell doing nothing? Well, he led the Elves in the Battle of Fornost, but that is all it seems. Last edited by Gordis : 06-26-2005 at 04:12 PM. |
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06-27-2005, 01:24 AM | #6 |
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It's Frodo who has always irritated me most - maybe because he's way too pacifist for my taste, I don't know. I love Sam, et al, but for some weird reason Frodo gets under my skin...
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06-27-2005, 05:12 PM | #7 |
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He is a little gloomy.
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06-28-2005, 01:42 PM | #8 |
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irritating characters
there are some?
Legolas. He does little except not sleep, skim over snow etc....a lightweight. Frodo gets on my nerves at times, but then he's bearing the Ring into Mordor, he's a right to get a little whiny at times. |
06-30-2005, 02:29 PM | #9 |
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Funny, I wasn't irritated by Leggy or frodo or sam when I read the book before I saw the movie. But after the movie... I just can't stand them anymore.
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07-07-2005, 04:12 PM | #10 |
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And Arwen Evenstar's a bit annoying; what's her problem? She made a nice banner for her man, how sweet - but she couldn't be bothered to deliver it herself?! What a p---y.
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tom bombadillo is the most annoying dude in the books I don't know why tolkien even bothered with him
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08-07-2005, 12:50 AM | #12 |
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How funny! Bombadillo irritates you? I guess he IS a little much, sort of willy-wonkaish, or like a Robin Williams-on-acid kind of guy! He didn't bug me, though, but thinking about this subject again I'm reminded that Galadriel kinda freaks me out.
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must be a personality thing but i never minded galadriel because she is central to the plot and has a role through the whole from the silmarillion until the appendices whereas bombadil shows up in 2 chapters and never shows up or participates again
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08-07-2005, 01:27 AM | #14 |
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Well, you've got a point, rohirrim TR...
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08-07-2005, 03:34 AM | #15 |
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Treebeard.
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08-07-2005, 03:43 AM | #16 |
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Treebeard irritates you? I guess he can seem a bit lugubrious and plodding... but I like him.
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i can see that treebeard can be hard to read but he is essential to the plot because without the ents and treebeard helms deep would have been different and saruman would still be a threat to gondor either keeping aid away from minas tirith or putting gondor in a crossfire so treebeard to me makes sense and is kind of funny
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Tom irritates me sometimes, too. I'm surprised Goldberry doesn't just haul back and smack him sometimes!
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