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Re: Most Tragic Figure
Then, indeed, Gollum does not meet Odysseus' admittedly narrow definition of tragic and Túrin would be my only answer (of the two I submitted). I was erroneously going on the common meaning (at least my understanding of it) of tragic. I would still deny Boromir as a tragic character in this sense in that his great deeds were outside the bounds of the story as told and thus, though his fall was well-recorded, the great heights he fell from were never literally established (other than his own retelling of his own deeds).
At least if we open the definition of 'tragic' to a more general meaning I'll already have a good answer posted. <img src=ohwell.gif ALT=":/">
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