Which LOTR "hero" do you identify with?

[FloridaJudy]

Poll question: Which LOTR "hero" do you identify with?

My son took me to see *The Return of the King* on Christmas day. It blew my socks off. I found myself rooting for two characters in particular (even though I'd read the book and knew how it ended).

Which character do find most empathetic? I've only chosen the Good Guys. If you identify with Sarumen or Sauron, maybe you should check out the Free Republic. If you identify with Golem, tell us why; your answer could be thought-provoking.

[roguevalley]

1. I love them all. Who would have considered a book where you

could find good things in all the characters? I loved
the movies and the books. What a great thing to look
forward to each Christmas when a boost of imagination
is just the needed thing?

[DS1]

2. Legolas, because I'm a crack-freakin-shot

Yeah, I'll put ~your~ eye out at a thousand yards :evilgrin:

[Knoxville_Bob]

5. Sounds like someone

Got a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas!

[corporatewhore]

3. Pippin!!!

everybody says i am a fool

[FloridaJudy]

14. Fool of a Took...

:) Yeah, I love him as well!

[Knoxville_Bob]

4. Gollum!

A golem is a automaton made of clay.

Why Gollum? Why not - it's how I feel about myself most of the time.

[AngryAmish]

6. Aragorn

Because I am the whole f'n show.

[Lady Freedom]

7. Gimli!

Because we do as we say and don't take any bull from anyone!

[solinvictus]

8. Sauron

Because even my best plans are sometimes thwarted by little problems.

[Selwynn]

11. LOL! Awesome...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

9. Eowyn/Arwen

Arwen mostly though. I'm not as into kicking ass as Eowyn tends to be.

[Lady Freedom]

10. Kick!

:dem:

[grok]

12. Theoden!

Because I am older,but reborn at full strength. Time is limited. I dwell where I am surrounded. The odds are against me. But it will be a glorious battle. One last time. Yet my kin will survive and win the day.

Whatever. :D

Grok

[DivinBreuvage]

13. I am Grima Wormtongue

Yep, that about sums it up. But, like Richard II or Richard III, he did go out well (in the book)

[ldoolin]

15. Gollum

Because there is nothing sweeter than fisssh. And rabbitses. And more fisssh.

[LanternWaste]

16. Pippin

I gotta go with Pip. I'd *like* to say Aragorn or maybe even Gimli to soothe the testosterone in me, but Pip's naivete and wide-eyed innocence pretty much parallels my own. He says and does things in which absolutely no harm is intended, yet becomes the catalyst for some pretty horrible things (at the Prancing Pony, the well in Moria and looking into the Palantir come to mind). Then realization hits and he feels like a complete schmuck. Yup. That's me.

That and the fact that, all other things being equal, I take most people at face value. I expect people to do the right thing and I'm actually *surprised* when they/we don't. I saw a lot of that in Pippin.

There is a part of me that identified (or more precisely, 'empathized') with the movie version of Gollum, but I think in all honesty a lot of people do. It's that famous Duality of his. Wanting to be good.

Wanting to be one of the people involved in the "happily ever after", but caving into temptation over and over again. Not that I hear voices in my head or hold conversations with myself (well, maybe a little bit... but not to that extent), but I do feel a constant war in my soul between the inner demons and the better angels and depending on the situation, it's sometimes a toss-up who wins (as much as I hate to admit).

[LWolf]

17. Frodo

Battle scars and wounds that never completely heal; experiences that set me apart from the norm. Except I don't have a Sam watching my back.