If Rabrrrrrr were a Lord of the Rings character, who would he be?

[Rabrrrrrr]

Just curious. Sometimes peer review is far more valuable than self-evaluation.

No need to play the gender bullshit war, either. The character could be male, female, or other, of any race, and on any of the sides represented.

you must include a well-thought and lucid, coherent reason as to why you think Rabrrrrrr is that particular character.

Flame wars are totally acceptable if you feel that someone is wrong - i.e., so fucked in the head and brazenly ignorant, like a mop that's been used as Pamela Anderson's personal sex toy but without the fuzzy logic that a cuckolded Jaegermeister addict is capable of.

[Zuni]

1. I think JR Ewing is the Dallas character that represents Rabrrrrr

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Argh!! Damn you for that insult!!

I hated that show. Hated it with all my ability to hate.

[ltfranklin]

3. Hmmmm....

Dildo Baggins (the brother Bilbo NEVER talks about)

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Your insouciance will not go unpunished!

This is a serious question!

[ltfranklin]

5. My dreadful insouciance...

...is inexquisable! Please verglave me! I gollum at your hairy feet!

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I will never verglave you, no matter how much you gollum!

[ltfranklin]

9. Sigh...

I am Verclempt! I don't dessert to lave!

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. Let's see...

Rude, pig-headed, and often times vulgar(:evilgrin:).. that means you'll have to be a Dwarf. So Gimli?

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. I'd say the guy who drove the Oliphant

who got speared by Eomer and dangled from the ear of the Oliphant.

Yup. Him.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. OK, Rabrrrrrr,

I don't understand why I'm about to give you the answer I'm about to give you; but I think you would be Strider, or Aragorn son of Arathorn. You just look kingly to me, and again, I don't know why you do! So you can forget the well-thought, lucid and coherent reasoning from me! I cannot produce any of the above!

*deep bow*

:yourock:

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Woo hoo! You just made my day!

I seem kingly to someone! I seem kingly to someone!!

:woohoo:

[DerekG]

11. Well, Rabrrrrr is an odd moniker

The kind of word, in fact, someone might spew out as they were engulfed in flame and plummeting thousands of feet to the earth.

You're Denethor!!!!!!

[sans qualia]

12. Arwen

Just as his love for Arwen inspired Aragorn to perform acts of great heroism, so do you inspire the lounge to reach heretofore unseen heights of, uh, well-reasoned intellectual discourse... yeees. :P Ergo, Arwen.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Hmm...Arwen, interesting....

Not so bad... dump that Aragorn guy, live forever in the west making baskets and linens.

Arwen was a cool character, as were all the elves, really.

[nuxvomica]

15. Gimli

That's who I thought of immediately. Brusk with strong opinions, a worthy foe and loyal comrade, but appreciative of the finer things. Like all dwarves, a craftsman.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Well, that's two for Gimli....

now I'm getting worried...

[nuxvomica]

17. I hadn't seen the other till just now

At least mine was more diplomatic. ;-)

[XNASA]

18. I've always imagined you face up in a canoe.....

...going over a waterfall.

So I'd have to say Boromir.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. LOL!

I am not.

:slap:

[Solly Mack]

20. Glorfindel

'cause he's shrouded in mystery...unless you've read "The Silmarillion"

and because no one else thought to say him....and I hold a special fondness for Glorfindel

he role was woefully ignored in the movie to give Arwen a bigger role in order to justify the paycheck of Liv Tyler

but I'm not bitter...

(Don't be such a purist, Solly!)

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Glorfindel - very interesting!

"shrouded in mystery" - much better than the Gimli comparisons, even though they are accurate.

I have to admit that i am not remembering the character, though. Was he a son of Elrond?

[4_Legs_Good]

23. "Was he a son of Elrond?"

:argh:

He slew Gothmog, didn't he?

Anyone being called most like Glorfindel better be sending the caller huge sums of $$$.

david

[Solly Mack]

26. That was Ecthelion of the Fountain that slew Gothmog, no?

lord of the balrogs...


I believe they killed each other..

[4_Legs_Good]

27. No, not really, really?

Hmmmmm... I'll have to find out. I thought it was a dual death with with Gothmog and Glorfindel, and then some how Glorfindel ends up still alive (one of the last of the firstborn) in LotR.

david

[Solly Mack]

28. pretty sure it was Ecthelion verses Gothmog

though they both died while fighting a balrog...

but I could be wrong.

[4_Legs_Good]

30. A little web searching show's you're correct

Doh!

Well at least Glorfindel slew Morgoth and Sauron in that WWE tag team match.

Gah!

david

[Solly Mack]

24. No. Those were Elladan and Elrohir

Glorfindel was the elf who came to the fellowship at the river near Rivendell when the wraiths were upon the fellowship...in the books, that is. He resides in Rivendell though he is an Elf-Lord of Gondolin from old.. and he's also been born again of the Balrog (legend has it and the Silmarillion agrees) - he fought one just as Gandalf did and was brought back...just as Gandlaf was ...Glorfindel went to the Halls of Waiting before his return to Middle Earth because he first died a noble death....and was allowed to return.

On the river banks, Glorfindel reveals his true self to the wraiths...a powerful shining light, both great and terrible to behold...and that, coupled with the raging river and white horses of water...stop the wraiths and allow the fellowship to pass into Rivendell...not some trick pony ride by Arwen...but I'm not bitter... :)

[4_Legs_Good]

29. Did Glorfindel actually "reveal" himself

Seriously. Was it by any concious act of his own? As I recall, and I don't recall exactly, but Gandalf tells Frodo "then you saw Glorfindel as he is, one of the mighty of the first born".

I wasn't under the impression that Glorfindel did any kind of unveiling or anything, but rather that because Frodo was fading and fading fast, he saw the world as the wraiths, and was thus able to see Glorfindel's aura or whatever.

I could very well be wrong, though.

Stupid Arwen chase. I hate Jackson.

Remember, though that Frodo also had the power to resist the ring and the wraiths, it wasn't just Glorfindel's intervention, and it certainly wasn't Arwen's fancy riding.

And for Morgoth's sake it WASN'T any kinda "let whatever grace I possess pass to him" BS.

:grr:

david

[Solly Mack]

31. It was the ring they allowed Frodo to see

but Glorfindel also allows his full measure, as it were, to be seen...

So I think revealed is an ok word to use in that case...though probably not entirely accurate as you point out

Glorfindel was most likely of the Vanyar...at least part...which would be in keeping with Finrod's being reborn as well...(so many tales, so little time)

I would never forget the staying power of a hobbit :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Ah - now I remember, but barely!

Yeah, I was disappointed when Arwen caused the horses to appear in the River. I thought, "Wait - that's crap! We're missing something REALLY FUCKING AMAZING here!"

Never remembered that was Glorfindel, though. I'm a bit of a LOTR geek, but not of the sort that has read the Silmarillion and digested all the lost tales and easily remembers names.

Thanks for all the info, and for the nice debate with that other guy!

Very enlightening.

And, I see now, even far more of a compliment to call me Glorfindel than I had thought.

[Solly Mack]

35. Oh, I'm sorry..I don't mean to imply

Glorfindel did the raging river and the water horses...that was Elrond (river) and Gandalf (water horses)...Glorfindel just shows his full glory (which is intimidating to things like wraiths and mere mortals)...and certainly not to be ever overlooked just to give Arwen a bigger role than she ever had in the books...but I'm still not bitter.

I know...I'm a dweeb. lolol

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Really? The water horses were Gandalf?

I really need to read the books again. Haven't read them since 2002.

[Solly Mack]

37. If I remember correctly..he is talking to Frodo

and telling Frodo that Elrond raised the river and he (Gandalf) threw the horses in as a special touch...

I could have it confused with something else...as much as I read the books, I'm always forgetting some part or aspect...

[skygazer]

22. Off topic here

One of the better compliments I ever got. Was hanging out with my daughter and her bf as well as my hubby. We were talking about LOTR and got on this subject - who would we be in Middle Earth.

My daughter, we decided, would be an elf as she's very deep but beautiful and somewhat mysterious.

I forget what we came up with for her bf - my hubby would definitely be a hobbit which he agreed with - he loves to be at home, eat and be comfortable but when push comes to shove, he steps up.

I said, "who would I be?" and without blinking an eye, hubby said, "You'd be Aragorn."

Thought that was pretty cool.


Rabrrrrrr I think would be Eomer - impetuous, a little abrasive but still one of the good guys. :hi:

[SOteric]

25. A write in vote for Mr. Jones in Men in Black.

You know what's really going on, but owing to circumstances, limited understandings, the rules and your own personal ethics...you can't really share much of that with anyone.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Wonderful! Thank you!!

I actually sat and laughed out loud many times for many seconds after reading that.

What a wonderful, incredible compliment! And coming from you, it means even more, since I know you as an insightful, wise, and critically astute person!

:blush:

I think this is one of the nicest, most wonderful things anyone has ever said to me. And I never even thought of the link between me and Mr. Jones.

:woohoo:

If I could, I'd sweep you off your feet for a 5 year whirlwind tour of Earth!

[Arkana]

34. Let's see...

Loud, rather goofy, and sometimes clueless. Pippin!