Aragorn is generations from the strength possessed by
the men in Turin's generation. That is a big disadvantage. So, I'm going to say Turin. Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing they evidently prefer.
Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because a strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion.
****************************************** Brother will fight brother and both be his slayer, brother and sister will violate all bonds of kinship; hard it will be in the world, there will be much failure of honor, an age of axes, an age of swords, where shields are shattered, an age of winds, an age of wolves, where the world comes crashing down; no man will spare another.
"The Appendices (and Prologue) gave Tolkien an outlet for explanations he couldn't fit into the text, and therefore made the text that much simpler and free of burdensome explanations. It's very hard for someone who creates a world from the ground up to refrain from overexplaining what he or she has created; the Appendices, and what is more the promise that someday The Silmarillion might be published, may have helped Tolkien exercise ruthless restraint." - Curious
The weekly discussion of The Lord of the Rings is back. Join us in the Reading Room for the discussion of the appendices!
****************************************** Brother will fight brother and both be his slayer, brother and sister will violate all bonds of kinship; hard it will be in the world, there will be much failure of honor, an age of axes, an age of swords, where shields are shattered, an age of winds, an age of wolves, where the world comes crashing down; no man will spare another.
I'm not sure, but you could advertise it as "The Battle of the Elf-Dudes". //
