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    Originally Posted by Stygian Cellarius
    There is something within resisting agreement, but I agree. I'll say it, I AGREE! As much as I love his other works, nothing moved me quite like Children of Hurin. After I closed that book, I just sat there starring at the floor for awhile. I couldn't really believe what had just happened; how tragic it all was.
    As much as I love LOTR (even though as literature it leaves a lot to be desired) it doesn’t come close to the Silmarillion or to Children of Hurin. Hurin’s defiance of Morgoth and the death of Beleg Cuthalion at Turin’s hands it is hard to find more epic prose in Tolkien’s work. The aged Hurin clasping the hand of his dead wife on the grave of Turin…...

    As a student of Tolkien’s work on Old English literature, especially Beowulf, I am constantly amazed at the depth of insight into the European psyche he achieved.

    Also, there is something about the land and tales west of the Blue Mountains (Beleriand), that I like more than East Middle-Earth.
    Along with Feanor and the Noldor I enjoy the tales of Numenor and the defiance of the Valar, the slow corruption of the men of Numenor by Sauron has an interesting quality to it, though I suspect it is more Old Testament influenced than anything of Diomedes attempted God slaying in the Iliad.

    Anyway, did you know that Tolkien wrote his own version of the Volsung epic?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legend-Sigur...2&sr=8-1-spell
    I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
    “truth”, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    Indeed it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure-or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
    Nietzsche

    To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
    Heraclitus

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    Balor , the immortal ubermentsch alien philosopher exiled from his planet because of his weird habits such as walkin' on stilts , dressin' only in black and beatin' up everyone he meets on his path.

    [YOUTUBE]EyykQWg4IWg[/YOUTUBE]



    They even made a puppet of him...




    Italian version
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    Uebervillain Karl Ruprecht Kroenen form Hellboy's movie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pallantides View Post
    How could I forget Smiling Jack from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
    Not just Bloodlines. However he was just a stereotypical anarchist Brujah troublemaker. Now the tzimisce elder in the game is a real opponent in this game. To bad you could not side with him.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
    The Eternal Champion is probably number one on my list of awesome fictional characters:
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    Solomon Kane, a character created by R.E. Howard, whom I like more than Conan. A dark and awesome Puritan do-gooder.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kane

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pallamedes View Post
    Solomon Kane, a character created by R.E. Howard, whom I like more than Conan. A dark and awesome Puritan do-gooder.
    Bran mac Morn, Cormac mac Art, Red Sonja, Black Vulmea...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ullarsskald View Post
    Bran mac Morn, Cormac mac Art, Red Sonja, Black Vulmea...
    Conan and Solomon Kane for me!

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    Raziel and Kain from Legacy of Kain


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    I've always had a soft spot for characters in horror movies.

    Kurt Barlow in Stephen King's Salem's Lot scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.



    The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers




    And Samara, from the Ringu series of films, who reminds me of my niece


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