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Tuor in Gondolin · 03-20-2006, 11:10 AM

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In the First and Third Ages the bearded one
does important things, but for the Second
Age he's just not all that important.

Btw, does he like a nice trimmed
beard or the natural, older statesman look?

Celuien · 03-20-2006, 03:36 PM

++CIRDAN
Reasons given here.

I feel sorry for Elros, although I liked his wiser sibling more.

Eonwe · 03-20-2006, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Anguirel

It's been proven by popular consent he's the brother of a cissy. So he's probably a cissy himself. Which would explain why he never did anything interesting, like fighting wars or worshipping Melkor...

So Hector, obviously, is a pansy because Paris is. The absolutely does not follow. And I don't have anything against not being uninteresting. Tolkien was all about the uninteresting, stalwart characters: think Treebeard, Samwise Gamgee and his Gaffer, Bilbo, Butterburr, and a host of others.

Not to mention Elrond is anything but a sissy...considering that without him, his wise counse, and his wisdom in building a refuge and bastion, the Kindly West would have fallen long before the time of Bilgo and Frodo.

I say we vote for Celebrian. I now recant my original position, and take up the opposite and equally valid argument that, as there is nothing important ever told about her, she is not worthy of staying in the running. Sure, she porduced offspring that reunited the long-sundered branches of the Dunedian, and she was the daughter of Galadriel. But she never did anything cool herself.

03-20-2006, 11:10 AM	#1
Tuor in Gondolin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southeast Pennsylvania Posts: 3,651	+ + Cidan In the First and Third Ages the bearded one does important things, but for the Second Age he's just not all that important. Btw, does he like a nice trimmed beard or the natural, older statesman look? __________________ The poster formerly known as Tuor of Gondolin. Walking To Rivendell and beyond 12,555 miles passed Nt./Day 5: Pass the beacon on Nardol, the 'Fire Hill.'

03-20-2006, 03:36 PM	#2
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	++CIRDAN Reasons given here. I feel sorry for Elros, although I liked his wiser sibling more. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.