Ironic Characters in Tolkien

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Originally Posted by Boromir88

Poor Radagast, he's in such a great company of Wizards he tries to find his own thing where he could be at least good at something those 'other wizards' aren't and he even fails at that. No wonder why Saruman had to be begged by Yavanna to take Radagast with him. :P

Thank you very much for your points on Radagast vis a vie Gandalf. It seems to me that Radagast's failing isn't so much in how he started out, in that he allowed himself to be side-tracked from his mission into an area of his fancy whereas Gandalf stayed true to his charge, and by virtue of it was able to see true. Seeing true, he respected the beasts and birds more for what they really were than Radagast did who served himself. No doubt I could have said this better.

Rikae, thank you for your points regarding plot in both LotR and the Sil. The things you speak of seem to fall in line with "what you sow, you reap".