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Well, G55 asked me, not you, so yeah.  |
Well, I posed the question to the public in general, and I'm happy to hear all the "what if" spin-offs.
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Could Maeglin be considered a hero in any capacity?
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If Macbeth can be considered a tragic hero, Maeglin probably can.
The way the story goes, there is not much sympathy for Maeglin after his initial introduction to Gondolin. It's easy to sympathize with him before that point, but afterwards he leans over to the antagonist side: the haughty prince who speaks down to Hurin and Huor, the weirdo who fantasizes about his cousin, the selfish one who can't get his priorities straight. It's hard to conceptualize him as a hero, even if the story was retold in a more sympathetic light, but he is an antihero - the big character who drives the story, though not somebody one would want to follow or emulate.