Parallels between Gandalf and Glorfindel

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Originally Posted by Istari

Hey, what about Frodo and Faramir? Both have huge burdens to carry-Frodo carries the ring while Faramir carries Boromir's legacy. Frodo lies near to death at Shelob's lair and at Mt Doom and Faramir almosts dies from the poisoned arrow. Also, to point out that both have big expectatoins of them and they overcome the odds. I say that Tolkien likes to foil characters to each other.

And then also to present the foil as a possibility that may or may not come true, e.g. Frodo and Gollum, Aragorn and Isildur (although this is downplayed in the book at least, where the comparison to Aragorn is more likely Elendil)...