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Tolkein Blog Party Tag

 This one was harder to do than I thought it would be! So many choices! 1. Aragorn:  Favorite Tolkien hero/heroine   Definitley Eomer. He was so noble but also very relatable. (And Karl Urban plays him in the movie. Definite plus.) 2. Boromir:  Favorite Tolkien character arc Actually - Boromir. He's probably one of the most relatable characters as he struggles with doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. 3. Frodo:  Favorite song or poem by Tolkien Chip the Glasses and Crack The Plates. This always remided me of my siblings and I doing dishes after supper. Our mother had the amusment level of Biblo at those times. 4. Gandalf:  Favorite wise Tolkien quotation Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. 5. Gimli:  A Middle-earth location you'd like to visit Rivendell all the way. Mountains, rivers, trees, Elrond....oh yeah, life is good.  6. Legolas:  Favorite Middle-earth Weapon The long two handed swords used by the elves. T...

The Fantastic and Felicitous Fictional Character Tag

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  Goody-two-shoes: A character who was just morally good Matthew Cuthbert Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert Everyone needs a man like this in their life. Matthew Cuthbert is one of the very first characters you meet in Anne of Green Gables. He's on his way to pick up what he thinks is a young orphan boy from the train station. Instead, he finds a skinny 12-year-old girl with fiery red hair and the ability to keep up both sides of the conversation at once. Even though she's not what he expected, he brings her home to the beautiful Green Gables and the rest is literary history.  Anne and Matthew on their way to Green Gables Matthew is a quiet and gentle character who doesn't speak that much but his presence is felt and the kindness that radiates from him leads to some of the sweetest scenes in the book. Why is he so morally good? He just is. Logic would have dictated leave Anne there, and send her home on the next train. Instead, he took her home, let her talk her mind o...