The Big Bad Read

[Folwren]

Don't smash me, but Feanor makes an awesome villain. And he is one, too. If it hadn't been for him a great deal of damage wouldn't have been done! But he is my favorite because at the same time that he's such a rogue, he's also very...how do I put it? I feel bad for making him a villain, but he was one. He was also a perfect elf, though, so far as looks and ability go. He was remarkable! But he was evil.

Originally Posted by Macalaure

From LotR I would pick the Witch-King. Each time I hear him (or a fellow Nazgûl) speak in the book I shudder. He's extremely scary to me, yet he makes me wonder what kind of person he is, or better, was, and whether he would have chosen differently long ago in hindsight. In a way he's a very tragic figure, on second sight.

Do you know what's funny. . .when I first read the books (I was 11, maybe), the Nazguls so scared me that first, I didn't sleep near the edge of my bed for a week for fear of being grabbed by one (from underneath the bed, yes). Second, I even quit reading the first book I was so frightened! I now find it interesting that Tolkien coud have made something so scarry without having any blood or horrible images described in that part of the book. (I'm speaking mainly about Three Is Company.)

Anyway, there are my two cents.

-- Folwren