Elessar
By far, the character I relate to the most in The Lord of the Rings is Aragorn. Both in the books and in the movies.
He was simultaneously my favorite character in the movies, and my biggest beef with the movies. Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn was far different from Aragorn of the books. In the books, Aragorn is eagerly awaiting the time when he will be able to throw off his disguise as a ranger (which is needed in order to hide the fact that the King’s bloodline is, in fact, still intact) and take his rightful place as King of Gondor (and king of men). In the movies, he is quite different: moody, dark, emotional, and distrustful even of himself. (I find the differences to be quite similar to Jesus as he is found in scripture and in the musical “Jesus Christ: Superstar”. Both are compelling, the musical is fairly accurate, conveys the message… but is different from the original)
Quite honestly, I liked the movie version of Aragorn better. He was easier to relate to. He wore his inner-struggles on his sleeve, and yet was still able to step up at key times and be who he was meant to be (fending off ringwraiths, taking charge at Helm’s Deep, waking the army of the dead and taking over at Pelenor Feilds, leading the charge outside of the gates of Mordor).
The fact that he was so very human, and yet still very much a Hero of epic proportions inspires me.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Sam. He follows, he leads.
Sam was AWESOME in the last movie.
The picking Frodo up and carrying him was mentioned in passing (something like ‘and the two worked their way up mt. doom, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, sometimes sam picked frodo up and carried him), but they made a big deal of it in the movie and it was a real tear jerker.
Loyalty, another major theme in the books and movies will get its own post here soon.
I liked it. The ending was so long, though.
If I say Legolas…because he is cute, I know someone will want to hit me….so, I will go with Pip and Merry. I relate to them the most. They started off going on this adventure to be with their friends and slowly evolved into becoming significant characters in the story. Their parts might have been small, but they had a passion to defend what they know is right. Loyal, loving, mischeivious; I love these guys.
“I don’t want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of what I can’t escape is even worse.”
Matt,
extraordinary work on the quick links section! way to add some very needed funtionality! That has probably been the number one improvement to this site so far. Many Thanks!!!!