Just a short note to the previous voting, if I may:
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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard
You hit the nail right on the head, Gollum. Substance wins over empty rhetoric everytime, at least in my book. The Gaffer, as good as he is, has never shown the same type of courage that Frodo has already showed us; besides, I have suspicions that the Gaffer is actually a Flip-Flopper.  |
Gaffer is actually a "common man" and he is a very good person. "Empty rhetoric" is no way for him, he is actually even "wiser" than Frodo, in the more "down-to-ground" way. Have you seen, for example, the Magnificent Seven? "The villagers won..." The heroes win, but that does not make any single one of those others, non-heroes, any less significant.
Similarly with Farmer Maggot, although he is the one who is far more "clever", in the sense, far more "aware" of the world around him than Gaffer. But Gaffer is a "man in his place", truly. Frodo's vocation was to destroy the Ring, Gaffer's vocation was to care of taters. Both important. Frodo was maybe more of a "moral figure", but then, Gaffer was never in the position - how could we know how he would have acted, had
he been the Ringbearer? (When it comes to the moral choices - not to skills, his skills were with taters, not with the knowledge of Elven lore or sneaking past Orc guards - I would say he may have resisted the Ring for as long and carried it as far as Frodo.)
That's just to clear something about the first "duel" - and to make it clear what was
not the reason for me to pick Frodo. Now, on to the second one:
++Beleg
Simply because mostly of what was already said here, and especially because I found all the complex of people around Túrin most intriguing lately (those who know my WW game "Werewolves among the Wolf-Men" know well). And, okay, I like the Elves more than Hobbits
