The Middle Earth Popularity Cup

[Nerwen]

++ Túrin.

[Aganzir]

++Gimli

Neither of them is my special favourite but I like them both. However, Gimli is a dwarf. And he needs some love after being treated like that by PJ.

As a matter of fact, I might well have voted Túrin, but reading through your posts and especially skip's statement that he had found some Gimli parts in the movies funny swayed my vote towards Gimli.

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Originally Posted by Aganzir

++Gimli
As a matter of fact, I might well have voted Túrin, but reading through your posts and especially skip's statement that he had found some Gimli parts in the movies funny swayed my vote towards Gimli.

Man, I knew I'd get into trouble for that. But come on, are you seriously suggesting that Aragorn tossing Gimli wasn't funny?

Fortunately, Turin did just enough to toss aside Gimli, despite stiff resistance from the little funny-man. It finished 8-8 but Nerwen's vote proved decisive in the end.

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Match 16 of round 1:

So for out final match of round one Beorn, the bulky, shape-shifting vegetarian will test his skills against Boromir's kid brother Faramir.

Faramir vs. Beorn

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by skip spence

Match 16 of round 1:

So for out final match of round one Beorn, the bulky, shape-shifting vegetarian will test his skills against Boromir's kid brother Faramir.

Faramir vs. Beorn

My signature line notwithstanding, ++Beorn, because being a werebear-berserker who slaughters orcs by the hundreds is just... cool.

[Morthoron]

++Beorn

Unlike Faramir, who is a sensitive metrosexual, Beorn likes to hang out with talking sheep and horses, and turns into a bear when he's angry. The dude is a literal party animal!

[Gollum the Great]

Wow. The saint-like character from LOTR and the ultimate orc-slayer duke it out. Heck, I like people who are honorable and selfless and all that sort of thing, but when it comes to being trapped in a small room with a squad of Uruk-hai closing around me...

++Beorn

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++Beorn

Don't really care for either character but it's hard not to vote for the big guy after that awesome picture.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

++Beorn
Unlike Faramir, who is a sensitive metrosexual...

Could we please stop calling people gay in this thread, Morthoron! Your crack at Michael Angelo was bad enough, but calling Faramir so is pushing the limits. All that I've heard implied about Beorn is that he's cool, don't call characters things that they are not if you can't find anything good to back up your character choice.

Faramir rode into the jaws of certain death with his company to appease his father's will. Now that is devotion and courage. Faramir read the hearts of men as shrewdly as his father, but what he read moved him sooner to pity than to scorn. He was gentle in bearing, and a lover of lore and of music, and therefore by many in those days his courage was judged less than his brother's. But it was not so, except that he did not seek glory in danger without a purpose.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Could we please stop calling people gay in this thread, Morthoron! Your crack at Michael Angelo was bad enough, but calling Faramir so is pushing the limits. All that I've heard implied about Beorn is that he's cool, don't call characters things that they are not if you can't find anything good to back up your character choice. .

Michelangelo was the world's greatest sculptor. He also happened to be gay, as was Leonardo Da Vinci. It is not a big deal, and you've taken what I said about him out of context (actually, it was a slap at certain Christians who would place in hell anyone they disagree with). I am sorry you are unaware of history. Perhaps reading might help.

As far as the term 'sensitive metrosexual', it does not indicate someone who is gay; on the contrary, it is an exclusively heterosexual term. Study your neologisms before you make accusations and go overboard spouting your indignation. It is becoming tedious.