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Hi! First of all, I love your blog! I adore 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Lord of the Rings', so your posts are a blessing! I'd also like to know (damn curiosity!) which are your favourite characters from ASOIAF and LotR (even if maybe your URLs are already clear on that point?) and why. And if you read Martin's novels, which one is your favourite (I'm currently reading the third one, so I wanted another opinion about the books)? Thanks in advance!

d’aww, thanks anon! hmm, lessee. favorite lotr characters:

boromir. because of reasons. he’s the “tragic hero” of the movies and while he’s a lot more “human” in the movies, he’s actually a bit of an arrogant bastard in the books. okay maybe he’s an arrogant bastard in the movies too but he gets to smile a lot, so that was endearing. but really, what i love about him as a character is that the huge chip on his shoulder also becomes his saving grace. he’ the captain-general of gondor, a country that’s pretty much ravaged by war, and being the guy that leads soldiers into battles knowing that it’s basically like trying to kill a shark with a laser pointer (metaphors what even are they), and he’s desperate, yanno? he’s a proud guy, because that’s what his role as ~defender of the people~ gave him: confidence (probably too much of it), and arrogance (because hale maybe killing a hundred orcs or two can give a guy superiority complex, who knows). he doesn’t want the ring for power, per se, but he wants it because gondor needs it. and the ring, because it is an even bigger bastard than boromir, corrupts his noble intentions and that just… frickin… breaks my heart. i can’t even.
glorfindel, who’s not in the movies. because he is a badass. he killed a balrog, bro. he’s a balrog-slayer. and he dun’t have dem magic, like gandalf. he. killed. a balrog. true, he died, but he also got resurrected. also, he’s elrond’s boyfriend. so. yanno.
aragorn’s pretty awesome, by virtue of being the long-lost king of the new york of united states of middle-earth. (rohan being idk maybe new jersey.) also, he has viggo mortensen’s face. he’s not the “reluctant king” in the books like he is in the movies. i mean, he wants that damn crown cause with that crown, bro, he’ll get laid. the movie didn’t emphasize the fact that elrond will only agree to arwen, his daughter, getting boinked by aragorn, his foster son (i emphasize because maybe in elrond’s eyes this just ain’t right bro), if aragorn grows the backbone and becomes king already. but all the same, aragorn’s awesome because a) he’s a ranger therefore he’s idk like the swiss army knife of the fellowship, b) he’s 80 years old (during the war of the ring) but looks like he’s 40, c) he’s got mad sword skillz bro.
i just really like the race of men. i just. really like them.
oh and figwit because he’s played by bret mckenzie shit yeah.

favorite asoiaf characters:

stannis. because of an obnoxious novel of reasons.
basically the baratheon brothers, because their dynamics just makes me wanna kill a kitten. because nothing beautiful deserves to live on this earth.
i’ma have to say ned stark too because i admire his guts and the fact that there always needs to be an idealist in a realist’s world. gives you something to hope for, you know? like, you know you’ll never stick by your principles to the point of dying for them and inadvertently causing a war that annihilates the entire population of monarch butterflies in westeros but idk, you always need examples of both extreme sides of the spectrum to gauge your own actions and ned stark was just that rigidly honorable guy you’d like to be but can’t because hell you’ll never choose principles over the lives of your kids. (altho in the end not even ned stark was as honorable as ned stark, cause he did give in. it was too late but, ya ya.)
and because sean bean.
also jaime lannister because he is one complicated mother. cause he’s the golden child of house lannister, right? and you’d think that he’d be like michael corleone, to take up his father’s mantle and make sure that house lannister stays on top. but then he became a member of the kingsguard and being one immediately discounts him as the heir to casterly rock, right. right. (is that right. is it. i forget.) and he became a knight at, what, 16? 17? thereabouts. so the mindset of a knight—subservient to the king, following orders, etc—became deeply ingrained in him alongside the ideals of a lannister. so he’s got some identity crisis going on there, as you know from reading the books winkwink. and i just have no idea where he’s gonna swing next. so to speak. (cause i’m pretty sure he wanked off to a pin-up poster of arthur dayne in his dorm room at eton lol) he had this romantic idea of a knight, mostly because he looked up to arthur dayne. who was apparently some kind of kung-fu fighting saint. (who was best friends with rhaegar targaryen, played by george clooney because of all the womenz and menz in weteros who wanna be part of his harem jesus christ seriously.) but then he’s also a lannister. so one hand’s like, fuck the lannisters bro you’re a knight! then the other hand’s like, fuck the kingsguard bro you’re blonde and rich and a lannister! (and of course he’ll always have two hands, amirite. ya u kno what i mean.) so yeah he’s an interesting character.

favorite asoiaf book:

a storm of swords!
because
red
wedding
and also
the wedding after
and also there will be pie winkwink (u’ll know wot i mean)

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