Meme!

[grundyscribbling]

As seen at sulien

Give me a fandom and I will tell you

1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is mostly like me
5. hottest looks character
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I love this! (I'm using one of my favorite hot!Nelyo icons made for me by rhapsody probably more than a decade ago now, just for you! :D) I agree with all of them. Except #4, I'd be right in the thick of things, probably making elaborately painted protest signs and convincing Feanor he wanted me to build a website for the cause. And #10, the ship did sail for a me a few times because I had a friend in my early fandom years who shipped them, so I wrote them a few times as gifts for her.

Re: Thingol ... when I started my research on historical bias, I really came to see how many passes Thingol is given by the narrator. Turin too. But Celegorm belches or Maeglin takes too long before getting a tissue and suddenly the downfall of Middle-earth is on their shoulders.

[grundyscribbling]

Nice, I like the icon! :)

#4 is an honest answer. I spent my teenage years generally being the voice of reason. ("What?? No, that doesn't sound like a great idea, it sounds like an idea that ends with all of us in the ER!") As such, I couldn't see myself joining the 'leave Aman' movement.

In fanon, I am still sailing the good ship Caranthir/Haleth, damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. In canon, yeah, that probably wasn't what Tolkien meant when he said Caranthir was married. (Then again, he didn't say it wasn't, either...)

Thingol must have been amazing in bed is all I can say, because I don't understand Melian sticking around otherwise. It's like he fell out of the bad decision tree and hit nearly every branch possible on the way down.

I've got thoughts about Maeglin (I'm writing some Maeglin as part of my Buffy/Tolkien crossover verse) and are they ever not pretty. I mean if nothing else, you would think Maeglin should get more sympathy on account of his youth. He was only 190 when he died, which is what, 25 in elf years? And in his short life, he lost both parents, his grandfather, and an uncle, not to mention people under his command at the Nirnaeth. His life was a mess, and that's before he was taken to Angband and apparently persuaded to betray everyone he knew. Because it makes total sense that Morgoth wouldn't have double crossed him and killed both him and Idril anyway... (Not that this is one of my pet peeves or anything.)