Well, I think this is not as hard as the last one.
++Merry
Merry was, of all the Hobbits, probably the one I liked the most. He was clever, hmm, almost like an elf
Which gives him a big bonus in my eyes. He, if anybody, would be the Saruman of the Fellowship. (When I was small, I wanted to make Merry join Saruman and serve in Isengard. Say, wouldn't that be cool?
) And I never got why the silly Pippin had to be the one to get over all this Uruk-hai experience by himself, though:
Quote:
Merry and he had drawn their swords, but the Orcs did not wish to fight, and had tried only to lay hold of them, even when Merry had cut off several of their arms and hands. Good old
Merry!
|
But anyway, even from a less-freaky perspective
Merry is a great personality, he is very kind and aside from what
Lommy quoted above, the RotK and all the things in which he desperately wanted to help: to follow the King, fight the WK to help (or actually, save???) Éowyn... all that is just so touching.
Lúthien is not necessary bad, I would say against the first-look and from-all-sides coming criticism of her as character that we actually know very little about her, at least most of us (haven't read the whole Lay of Leithian in original version, maybe there's something more). But it is true that the little we know is a bit "schematized", so to say... or, rather, to be just, I think it is
us who are fitting her into some scheme, but the way she is portrayed kind of asks for schematization. I also guess she suffers a bit, or at least in my eyes, from the "main-hero syndrom": the main hero, if he does not have something special about him (but not the usually "special", but something "specially special"), is never as interesting as the minor characters. And Lúthien is somebody whose tale is recounted or remembered countless times throughout the history of Middle-Earth, and she simply is not (at least from my point of view) interesting enough to "survive" that.