Middle-earth Bad Popularity Cup

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Heck, just to give it a contest.

++The Watcher in the Water

After all, come on. He is cool. He eats Óin. And he would eat a few more Boromirs too, had they not been cowards and fled inside Moria. The Watcher is certainly a cute octopus.

[Thinlómien]

++Sauron

To quote myself in the previous popularity cup:

++Sauron

He's a werewolf!

I mean... it's serious this time.

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Sauron --.... he's twisted. He's rather boring maybe in LotR as he's reduced to being merely "the enemy", but in the Silmarillion and the UT he's gory and very fascinating... All that cunning, all those beautiful lies, the immense charisma, the extreme cruelty (Gorlim and Eilinel - that's really the most horror stuff Tolkien ever wrote) and of course, he was the lord of werewolves and also, a mighty singer. You've got to admit he was pretty darn cool before he became very boringly just "the Dark Lord". (Also, I love the name "the Necromancer", more so actually in the Finnish translation. It's been translated with the word that corresponds to "witch" and using it of men is totally appropriate, but rather rare. It always intrigued me. Also, Dol Gûldur is just really creepy however little we know about it...)

The Watcher in the Water taking Óin is indeed rather fascinating and scary, but other than that, I never liked the monster very much.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Why not the WintW ? Just imagine the
plot twist if he had gobbled up Frodo and
put on the Ring. (And boy, can that
Ring expand)!

+ + Watcher in the Water

Of course, if Sauron should somehow eke
out a win it would set up an interesting match
between the WK and his boss.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

After all, come on. He is cool. He eats Óin. And he would eat a few more Boromirs too, had they not been cowards and fled inside Moria. The Watcher is certainly a cute octopus.

Actually the book says that Óin was "taken" by the Watcher. Who knows, maybe it was lonely and only wanted someone to talk to.

I agree with Lommy. There's no contest.

++Sauron

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Actually the book says that Óin was "taken" by the Watcher. Who knows, maybe it was lonely and only wanted someone to talk to.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *wonders if she should retract after all*

[CaptainofDespair]

The Watcher in the Water?

It is mysterious, many-armed, and it doesn't need to trick a bunch of Elves, Dwarves, and Men into putting on some rings so it can try to dominate them. Then again, it does seem rather confined to...water.

And Sauron is, after all, Sauron.

Hmm...

++The Watcher in the Water

[the phantom]

*rolls eyes*

Big ugly monster, or....

Brilliant cruel evil dominant force for three ages of Middle Earth.

Tough.

++Sauron

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Watcher in the Water-3 Sauron-5

Sauron keeps his eye on the prize, WinW goes
on to use the gold he liberated from elves and
dwarves to work on financing a canal to the
Encircling Sea.

Next:

The Black Cat (of Queen Beruthiel) vs. Ar-Pharazon

Should non-cat lovers prevail the question would arise of
how to dispose of the cat:
Queen Beruthiel uses it to swab a deck?
A fur hat for a balding dwarf?

[Morthoron]

My daughter has a black cat (or actually, the cat allows her to feed it and deigns to be petted when and if it feels like it). But he is a cat. *shrugs*

++Ar-Pharazon.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I had a black cat who was actually quite unusual for his kind: he knew who was boss, and he knew it wasn't him.

Ar-Pharazon, on the other hand, reminds me of many people I've known who think the world exists for their greater glory, and all else (greater powers included) are somehow subservient to their will.

Given that, I choose

++The Black Cat of Queen Beruthiel

He (or she?) was one of a kind.