The Middle Earth Popularity Cup

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate

++Mîm

I really wish he would win.

I don't. So

++Sauron

Mwahaha.

Erm... okay.

But yes, I like him better, (although I don't really like either him or Mîm). It's all that scary Silm stuff that has already been mentioned.

And as for pity, I'm actually going further than Gandalf himself. I think I even pity Sauron, on some level. I pity the great talent and the soul of an artist that were - in a way - lost when Morgoth corrupted him.

Now I know! It's more or less the same as my pity for Darth Vader...

[Nogrod]

So Beleg overtook Frodo Baggins himself!

Yay! This is getting interesting indeed!

So the next major character to be dropped is Sauron, right? Let's see a carnival here and let the fresh winds blow!

Oh, just a minute, the pairs in this round look like Skip has made sure some of the top idols will survive anyway... There goes the grand scheme.


But in that case I'm going to vote for

++ Sauron

As said already here - and discussed in a separate thread lately - the Silm-Sauron is just magnificiently interesting character (unlike the LotR-Sauron who is just the abstract evil with no qualities eg. a different literal and philosophical idea).

And although I have almost always felt a deep sympathy with Mím (probably not the first time I read the Silmarillion as I was too young to appreciate him back then as a kid) there has always been something in his character I have disliked. I mean the sorrow of a father who lost his sons and the knowledge of being the last of one's kind are great and moving themes. But there still is something in the "petty" pride he has that has always been something like a turn-off for me. I don't know if it's cultural inheritance or something but there it is and I can't help it. I know I should think more highly of him but I just can't - at least if I have to make a choice between him and Sauron of the Silmarillion...