Favourite minor character? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morthoron · 06-25-2016, 02:01 PM

How minor is minor? Like mentioned once? Completely obscure? Or a bit player in a longer story? Not knowing the parameters, I'll give you a few:

Eöl - unlike any other Elf Tolkien referred to in his whole corpus. Friendly with Dwarves, dark, malignant, proud.

Halbarad - the only Ranger I cared about besides Aragorn, and you have to go and kill him right off the bat. His death resounded in me as if he was a Game of Thrones character.

The Blue Wizards, Alatar and Pallando - so obscure they didn't even rate separate colors. What, you couldn't afford to give one a green cloak?

06-25-2016, 02:01 PM	#2
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,515	How minor is minor? Like mentioned once? Completely obscure? Or a bit player in a longer story? Not knowing the parameters, I'll give you a few: Eöl - unlike any other Elf Tolkien referred to in his whole corpus. Friendly with Dwarves, dark, malignant, proud. Halbarad - the only Ranger I cared about besides Aragorn, and you have to go and kill him right off the bat. His death resounded in me as if he was a Game of Thrones character. The Blue Wizards, Alatar and Pallando - so obscure they didn't even rate separate colors. What, you couldn't afford to give one a green cloak? __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.