Well, I guess I have to throw water on the flame warriors, but to be honest, I just cannot see any of those really fitting well any of our Downers.
I can see some ways in which
SpM has some of those characteristics, but that doesn't begin to cover all his traits. There's a great deal of
davem in this one, too, but, again, it doesn't quite come to terms with some of his
other traits, which of course doesn't begin to include
his other tendancy. See what I mean?
Then there's
The Barrow Wight's various styles as
his image as one to be feared but also
just a little bit of this too.
I see myself slightly mixed between
this one .
this one ,
this one and
this one . I know, hard to believe, eh?
There's a bit of
truth about
Eomer here, but not enough of his sense of humour. And there is a slight
resemblance here of
Boro88 but hardly enough to do justice to his
profound rhetorical skills.
See what I mean? I think it does a grave disservice to account us Downers as anything ressembling such stereotypes. We are beyond caricature, I say!
(ran out of time--so many more I could have discussed as being inapplicable without in any way assuming allegorical reference!)