Sorry about not posting back on my own thread! Ive been gone for a few days...
Anyway, i feel quite the opposite about Tuor. I agree that he is presented as a silver hope against the sable backdrop that is the sil., but i fell rather connected with him, and he is one of my favorite characters in any of the books. Not quite at the top, you understand, but near.
So why is it that most people find a happy story to be less enjoyable? While there are many parts of the sil. and the LotR that stir me for their sorrow, and many that stir me for thier wonder or whatnot, the more lighthearted good parts always stand out, too. And it is not as if Tuor's tale can be thrown aside as all fun and games. Imagine how he must have felt standing before Ulmo himself, wearing mighty elven armour and hearing the seafoam crash against the shore in tune with the sea-longing beating in his heart...
Those of you that dont feel as connected woth Tuor as you do with Turin, or dont think his tale is as wonderful, why is that? I think that Tuor's history is just as, if not more important than Turin's.
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There long the golden leaves have grown, upon the branching years, while here beyond the sundering seas, now fall the Elven-tears...
but if of ships I now would sing, what ship would come to me, what ship would bear me ever back, across so wide a sea?
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