Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 08/17/2004 23:44 (08/17/2004 23:44) |
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"Yuk Tang" <jim.laker2@yahoo.com>skrev i meddelandet news:Xns9548D2B1BDFB1jimlaker2yahoocom@130.133.1.4...
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Yuk TangThey do give me a bit of the same feel.
A Numenorean who is also human, with their attendant weaknesses and (more importantly) their strengths. And I'm not talking about his martial ability, either. A little slice of the best of the Edain in the First Age. Tuor, perhaps?
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The fact that a mysterious stranger was favoured before himself by everybody, even his own father, was probably something that Denethor never forgot or forgave. I wonder if he realized towards the end that the claimant to the throne out of the north was no one other than his old nemesis Thorongil.?jevind L?ngYuk Tang
Agree about the masterly representation of Denethor.
IMO the most interesting character in LotR, especially when his history in the Appendices is taken into account. A Second Age equivalent would be Tar-Minastir, well-meaning and highly able, but overtaken by the ego-trip of heading a powerful nation. Or perhaps from the First Age, Turin, a gifted character consumed by character flaws and circumstances.
?jevind
08/17/2004
