Well, I've just finished the entire LOTR series. *Sigh* they're so brilliant. The ideas in them are so fascinating, with so many mixed-in morals, equipped with excellent character development, and clever, unexpected humor in all the right places makes these four books so enchanting. I hate it when some one thinks of J.R.R. Tolkien as cliche. Allow me to stand on my soap box in order to add a few inches to my 5'4" while I rant at you poor readers.
LORD OF THE RINGS IN NOT CLICHE!!! There I said it. Tolkien was the first to come up with ANY thing like this, see? The first to create a world all its own, with complete races, lineages, histories, countries, and a full out War. All the other high-fantasy, epic, defeat-the-dark-lord are all copies. Christopher Paolini and all his wannabe followers, and yes, even the great Lloyd Alexander is merely copying Tolkien's Originality. Phew. I'm done.
Almost. OK, I'll say one more thing: Since Caitlyn already claimed Pippin, Sam and Aragorn are taken, Legolas and Gimli are busy traveling all over Middle Earth together, and Gandalf and Frodo are basically untouchable, I call Merry Brandybuck. Alright. I'm done now.
I'd get Gollum, but he died. I'll take Faramir 'cus he's awesome. Or Smeagol, he's pretty cool.
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