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Lyta_Underhill · 07-22-2003, 03:22 PM

Well, let's see, Legolas could be scary, if you were an orc on the wrong side of his bow! His movements are actually so precise, quick and devastating that yes, if I had to face Legolas in battle, I'd be scared! I can see a young orcling having a nightmare about an elf that he sees in the distance in a forest and all of a sudden, the elf is upon him, arrow in skull..too late! The Elf of Death! BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! It depends on your POV, I suppose!

And I must say Denethor is scary, but he is also quite fascinating; everyone thinks he is like Boromir, just because he favors Boromir, but his learnedness in lore and his responsibility to his station, are very Faramir-like; but he is rotted from within by Sauron, his great knowledge and powerful personality twisted into an equally powerful despair. Anyone under his command would quail at his destructive madness! (Except Pippin! Go Pippin!) Denethor reminds me of a man with a pressure switch bomb in his hand; really scary! It really took an extraordinary effort to defuse him!

And about Frodo being scary--when he's under the Ring's influence, yes, he's scary! But I find myself feeling more scared FOR him than OF him. The fear coming from Frodo and that I share in is a very spiritual fear, a fear of being overcome by an unknowable evil, like looking into the eyes of a schizophrenic person or being afraid you are going mad yourself. But the eyes are scary in that mad way. I did notice they looked purple in the extended VHS version of FOTR, but passed it off to lighting (light to dark scene--that was odd in itself!).

I'm sure I'll think of more scary characters...bye for now!

Cheers,
Lyta

07-22-2003, 03:22 PM	#152
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Well, let's see, Legolas could be scary, if you were an orc on the wrong side of his bow! His movements are actually so precise, quick and devastating that yes, if I had to face Legolas in battle, I'd be scared! I can see a young orcling having a nightmare about an elf that he sees in the distance in a forest and all of a sudden, the elf is upon him, arrow in skull..too late! The Elf of Death! BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! It depends on your POV, I suppose! And I must say Denethor is scary, but he is also quite fascinating; everyone thinks he is like Boromir, just because he favors Boromir, but his learnedness in lore and his responsibility to his station, are very Faramir-like; but he is rotted from within by Sauron, his great knowledge and powerful personality twisted into an equally powerful despair. Anyone under his command would quail at his destructive madness! (Except Pippin! Go Pippin!) Denethor reminds me of a man with a pressure switch bomb in his hand; really scary! It really took an extraordinary effort to defuse him! And about Frodo being scary--when he's under the Ring's influence, yes, he's scary! But I find myself feeling more scared FOR him than OF him. The fear coming from Frodo and that I share in is a very spiritual fear, a fear of being overcome by an unknowable evil, like looking into the eyes of a schizophrenic person or being afraid you are going mad yourself. But the eyes are scary in that mad way. I did notice they looked purple in the extended VHS version of FOTR, but passed it off to lighting (light to dark scene--that was odd in itself!). I'm sure I'll think of more scary characters...bye for now! Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”