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Originally Posted by Bęthberry
This vote thing is draggin' a bit.
+ +Chrysophylax Dives
His name violates Tolkien's number one rule about allegory. Reason enough!
His last name--Dives--is Latin for rich and to people in the Middle Ages--and we all know how much time Tolk spent there--Dives was the rich man in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. (Luke XVI 9 - 31). Apparently the House of Dives is still noted in Jerusalem. Unless it's been bombed recently of course.
So what has to go? This excrable academic scholarly parallel that ruins the story? Or the bad pun about a filthy rich dragon?
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++Chrysophylax Dives. For the above, and for the following reasoning.
Dives means rich man and was key in the Middle Ages. Rich people in the Middle Ages were often slothful, betraying and unsupportive of the common man. Therefore,Chrysophylax is a snooty, slothful jerk. Being a jerk is bad enough, but he also fits into the Seven Deadly Sins. Therefore, send him away.
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"And forth went Morgoth, and he was halted by the elves. Then went Sauron, who was stopped by a dog and then aged men. Finally, there came the Witch-King, who destroyed Arnor, but nobody seems to remember that."
-A History of Villains
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