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Woo, spam!
Because I feel like it, and because I am trying to use this journal more, a meme:
Name the top five supporting characters (book, movie, whatever) you think would be awesome as focuses in a series, rather than just as side characters.
1. Sir Dinadan, Le Morte de Arthur et. all. Anyone who's ever heard me dork about Arthurian lore will be unsurprised about this. My love for Dinadan is deep and constant, because he's such an peculiar character: critical of chivalry's failings, pretty much the only sensible person in the entire damn thing, yet allowed to be a valued friend of characters who embody chivalry. I could seriously write essays about why I love this character so much, and it's a source of ongoing sadness for me that no one but me seems to care about him.
2. The Librarian, the Discworld books. I would love Pterry even MORE to death if he ever did, like, even a short story about the Librarian's adventures as one of the Librarians of Space-Time. I mean, seriously. How would that not rock.
3. The other Michaelhouse faculty, The Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles. This is cheating, since it's a group, and also a series only I have ever read, but I LOVE Bartholomew and Michael's coworkers, especially in the latter books once the lineup has solidified a little. Father William in particular should not possibly be that charming for a prejudiced and smelly ex-member of the Inquisition, AND YET. I would really, really love . . . well, pretty much anything focusing heavily on them, instead of the usual Array of Random Townspeople And One-Appearance Scholars.
4. Pretty much anyone in Gondolin who hasn't been a major character in something, The Silmarillion. Another cheat, since that's like several thousand people technically, but the Gondolin bits are my favorite parts of the whole damn Silmarillion, and it's always made me beyond sad that we don't get to see much of it. THEY HAVE AN ELF WHO HEADBUTTED A MAIA INTO A FOUNTAIN, OKAY, THIS IS CLEARLY A PLACE WITH EXCESS HARDCORE. (No, seriously - Ecthelion, one of the random Gondolin lords, headbutted a goddamn Maia into a fountain to kill him. I consider Gothmog's death the most hilariously awesome death in the entirety of Tolkien's writing, because seriously, can you imagine? I bet word got back to all the other Balrogs and they laughed so hard they cried lava.)
5. Uncle Iroh, Avatar. I'm actually a little torn about this one, because on one hand I would love to see him as the focus of a whole damn series, and on the other hand I don't know if he would work as well if he weren't in contrast with Aang's Posse and his nephew (and niece, these days). And yet, MORE IROH IS ALWAYS GOOD.
Because I feel like it, and because I am trying to use this journal more, a meme:
Name the top five supporting characters (book, movie, whatever) you think would be awesome as focuses in a series, rather than just as side characters.
1. Sir Dinadan, Le Morte de Arthur et. all. Anyone who's ever heard me dork about Arthurian lore will be unsurprised about this. My love for Dinadan is deep and constant, because he's such an peculiar character: critical of chivalry's failings, pretty much the only sensible person in the entire damn thing, yet allowed to be a valued friend of characters who embody chivalry. I could seriously write essays about why I love this character so much, and it's a source of ongoing sadness for me that no one but me seems to care about him.
2. The Librarian, the Discworld books. I would love Pterry even MORE to death if he ever did, like, even a short story about the Librarian's adventures as one of the Librarians of Space-Time. I mean, seriously. How would that not rock.
3. The other Michaelhouse faculty, The Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles. This is cheating, since it's a group, and also a series only I have ever read, but I LOVE Bartholomew and Michael's coworkers, especially in the latter books once the lineup has solidified a little. Father William in particular should not possibly be that charming for a prejudiced and smelly ex-member of the Inquisition, AND YET. I would really, really love . . . well, pretty much anything focusing heavily on them, instead of the usual Array of Random Townspeople And One-Appearance Scholars.
4. Pretty much anyone in Gondolin who hasn't been a major character in something, The Silmarillion. Another cheat, since that's like several thousand people technically, but the Gondolin bits are my favorite parts of the whole damn Silmarillion, and it's always made me beyond sad that we don't get to see much of it. THEY HAVE AN ELF WHO HEADBUTTED A MAIA INTO A FOUNTAIN, OKAY, THIS IS CLEARLY A PLACE WITH EXCESS HARDCORE. (No, seriously - Ecthelion, one of the random Gondolin lords, headbutted a goddamn Maia into a fountain to kill him. I consider Gothmog's death the most hilariously awesome death in the entirety of Tolkien's writing, because seriously, can you imagine? I bet word got back to all the other Balrogs and they laughed so hard they cried lava.)
5. Uncle Iroh, Avatar. I'm actually a little torn about this one, because on one hand I would love to see him as the focus of a whole damn series, and on the other hand I don't know if he would work as well if he weren't in contrast with Aang's Posse and his nephew (and niece, these days). And yet, MORE IROH IS ALWAYS GOOD.
