Thread: Turin=Achilles?
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Old 06-28-2009, 04:07 PM   #19
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I still view them as the good guys. Sorry. Yes they did bad things, but the way the Iliad is written is so that you view them as the good guys in the war. It is just something that is always going to stick with me. I cannot view the Trojan's as good. They had a terrible royal family with the one exception of Hector.
Priam was evil? Andromache? Cassandra? Polydorus? I don't know if we've read the same Iliad.

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If I remember correctly Troy's symbol was a horse. That is another parallel between Helm's Deep/Rohan and Troy.
I'm not sure what that had to do with who was or wasn't on the side of evil in the Iliad, but that could well be entirely coincidental.
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