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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The Deepest Forges of Ered Luin
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++Gandalf
I both like Gandalf and still dislike Turin. I just don't understand all of the fascination with someone who poisons everything he touches, and then tries to rectify this by touching and poisoning more things. Oh, and feeling a lot of anguish about it.
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Flame of the Ainulindalë
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Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet... |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The Deepest Forges of Ered Luin
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: The Pinnacle of my own might
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++Turin
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'It just shows you how true it is that one-half the world doesn't knows how the other three-quarters lives.' Bertie, The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodewouse
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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++Gandalf
He's iconic, whereas Turin is just another guy with a sword. He has a great name with an Old Norse heritage, whereas Turin is named after some Italian city and you feel like a plonker just saying his wispy name out loud, but saying the rich, meaty word 'gandalf' makes you feel all robust and manly...even if you are not a man ![]() He's an Odinic Wanderer and an enigma, whereas Turin likes to abandon people. And kill them. He doesn't let you down, whereas Turin is like the Frank Spencer of Middle-earth. He's a hippy, and he can blow really cool smoke-rings.
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: The Pinnacle of my own might
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That's bull. Turin is a dragon-slayer, a tragedy, and one of the most elite fighters in Middle-Earth. All rolled into one. And that's only for starters.
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'It just shows you how true it is that one-half the world doesn't knows how the other three-quarters lives.' Bertie, The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodewouse
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Gordon's alive!
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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+ + Gandalf
Gandalf overcame great temptations, wheareas Turin's arrogance, as much as the curse, caused him to fail.
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The poster formerly known as Tuor of Gondolin. Walking To Rivendell and beyond 12,555 miles passed Nt./Day 5: Pass the beacon on Nardol, the 'Fire Hill.' |
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Beloved Shadow
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Here's my vote for it. ++ Turin First off, he really is a decent chap deep down. Look at his boyhood friendship with Sador. He had all the makings of a good, wise, and kindly man at that time. And he took a band of no-good ruffians and turned them into a force against Angband. And he showed compassion to Mim when he lost his son. With the life that he lived it is a wonder he still had goodness within him, yet we can see that he obviously did. He tried so hard, but everything turned out terribly for him. And whenever he thought things were going well, that's when disaster always struck him. Of all the things Morgoth did, his curse upon Hurin and his family was one of the worst. I say that we vote Turin the victory. Through our actions, the curse of Morgoth can be defeated! He thinks he can doom someone to forever be a loser? I think not. We Barrow-Downers can undo Morgoth's dark curse! Vote Turin! edit: xpost, good going Nog!
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Maundering Mage
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Texas
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Boromir in the finals? What an awful taste this has left in my mouth. Boro should have been eliminated in the first round.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” |
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++Túrin
Because now I have a vendetta against popular characters. Alas Beleg.
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Is é gáire ár gcuid páistí a bheas mar dhíoltas againn. - Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Facing the world's troubles with Christ's hope!
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++Gandalf
Possibly the best out of all Tolkien's characters.
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