Middle-earth Bad Popularity Cup

[Durelin]

Originally Posted by Lalwende

Facetious reason four - it makes me laugh too as it sounds like something you can buy in IKEA

Lol! No, it'd have to be Smaüg or Smäug then. Seems like a good name for a sofa.

And I mean...Glaurung and Gandalf?! Really?!

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Lol! No, it'd have to be Smaüg or Smäug then.

And I mean...Glaurung and Gandalf?! Really?!

Smaüg Side Table, £19.99. Please collect from Aisle 37, Row B, Shelf 17.

Then you get to the warehouse and there are none left so you have to settle for an Ancalagon coffe table instead...

[Nerwen]

Let's see...

1. They both have cool names.
2. They both have memorable (and evil) personalities.
3. They're both dragons.

It's almost a coin toss... but I believe I'll vote

++Glaurung.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Come on! Let's rally for Smaug! Let's give it a great finish! He's cooler! He can fly! He spits red and green flames! He talks to Hobbits!

Smaug! Smaug!

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Come on! Let's rally for Smaug! Let's give it a great finish! He's cooler! He can fly! He spits red and green flames! He talks to Hobbits!

Thank you, Legate! Glaurung's a worm (isn't that a bit disgusting when you think about it) Smaug is a full blooded dragon.

Originally Posted by Eonwe

And yet caused much more damage. Doesn't that make him even more amazing?

In a way. He was obviously bigger than any other dragon; ergo, the key to his success. I don't find it attractive how he's always accompanied by a great army when he goes fighting (except for those two times when he got seriously wounded and killed), dragons should be more independent.

And his "playing" with the children of Hurin makes him much more evil. Smaug just kills (yes, there was that bit where he was thinking of picking of the Lake men if I recall correctly, but he failed). Glaurung makes people suffer for his own pleasure. Doesn't that make him more evil?

Not really, he got killed by toying with his food. I like people, or dragons in this case, who are more straight forward with their work.

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Final results:

Smaug-6 Glaurung-8

Glaurung the Golden wins a hard fought contest
over Smaug the Magnificent .

Glaurung professed a lack of concern over ever
encountering a winner of other Popularity Cups,
saying "I've taunted Turin, I've fought with Turin,
and I can tell you, the Gray Pilgrim is no Turin ."

Btw, if anyone at some future date starts another Popularity
Contest, one interesting one would be women of Middle-earth/
Aman. There are at least 20-24 easily selected fom Middle-earth,
and more if maia and vala are included. Of course, one debatable
classification would be Melian. Would she be included
if maia in general were not?

[Nogrod]

The ur-worm wins!

Which is only decent.



Hurray!

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Tuor in Gondolin

Btw, if anyone at some future date starts another Popularity
Contest, one interesting one would be women of Middle-earth/
Aman. There are at least 20-24 easily selected fom Middle-earth,
and more if maia and vala are included. Of course, one debatable
classification would be Melian. Would she be included
if maia in general were not?

Oh, I have actually been thinking about something similar... before the Popularity Cups there was a rather similar game called "Middle-Earth Survivor" and I always intended to revive the tradition to make a female survivor game but I never managed to do that... But I won't be around to arrange any contests now anyway, so feel free to do that you others.

Thanks for the game, Tuor!