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Lyta_Underhill · 06-26-2003, 08:52 AM

Wow, it is really difficult to say who is my absolute favorite ME person; since I recently finished the Silmarillion it is yet harder still! I often find different ones that strike me, depending on my mood, but I have to agree with amyrlis about Maedhros and Maglor. I always wanted things to be OK for them. If any of the Sons of Fëanor deserved to escape their father's curse, it was those two. Their fulfillment of the Oath of Fëanor was tragic and twisted their lives into paths they should have avoided but for the promise they made long ago. I must also admit to a creeping fondness for Fëanor himself, although he was an obviously flawed being, too full of fire for his own (and Arda's!) good. I have a weakness for those who are so skilled in art and craft as to awe and befuddle the denizens of current and later ages! (On that theme, I must say Galadriel interests me for a similar reason, although she gets much less mention in the Silmarillion, and I shall have to seek out more about her!) I cannot remember where I read or heard it, but did not Fëanor ask Galadriel for a strand of her golden hair and receive a rebuff? Gimli, of course, got his wish and received three of her hairs! If everyone who wanted a piece of Galadriel's hair got one, she'd be bald! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I suppose I'll have to wait to see who my favorites tomorrow will be!

Cheers,
Lyta

06-26-2003, 08:52 AM	#16
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Wow, it is really difficult to say who is my absolute favorite ME person; since I recently finished the Silmarillion it is yet harder still! I often find different ones that strike me, depending on my mood, but I have to agree with amyrlis about Maedhros and Maglor. I always wanted things to be OK for them. If any of the Sons of Fëanor deserved to escape their father's curse, it was those two. Their fulfillment of the Oath of Fëanor was tragic and twisted their lives into paths they should have avoided but for the promise they made long ago. I must also admit to a creeping fondness for Fëanor himself, although he was an obviously flawed being, too full of fire for his own (and Arda's!) good. I have a weakness for those who are so skilled in art and craft as to awe and befuddle the denizens of current and later ages! (On that theme, I must say Galadriel interests me for a similar reason, although she gets much less mention in the Silmarillion, and I shall have to seek out more about her!) I cannot remember where I read or heard it, but did not Fëanor ask Galadriel for a strand of her golden hair and receive a rebuff? Gimli, of course, got his wish and received three of her hairs! If everyone who wanted a piece of Galadriel's hair got one, she'd be bald! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I suppose I'll have to wait to see who my favorites tomorrow will be! 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.”