What characters do your friends and family identify with?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

As an avid needlewoman, I do identify with Arwen - BookArwen, mind you, not MovieArwen. I used to have a quote from the "Tale of Aragorn and Arwen", Appendix A, as my signature - as a matter of fact, I still use it on the German Tolkien Society's site:

Arwen remained in Rivendell, and when Aragorn was abroad, from afar she watched over him in thought;
and in hope she made for him a great and kingly standard...

I know she is much belittled by numerous fans who find her too passive, but creative textile art is a wonderful thing, and very symbolic and powerful in her case. Like her, I prefer to make something for a specific person, with individual meaning to it.

Of course, it's not bad to look younger than one is, and nice to have a dark-haired heroine in a blonde-worshipping world...