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11-16-2004, 05:12 PM
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Lady of Letters
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Fictional Crushes
OK, I've seen the 'Men of the Silmarillion' thread. I know Mooters can fangirl like the best of them. So who are your fictional crushes from literature outside JRRT's world?
It's all right, you can admit it. Go on, we won't be judgemental...
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11-16-2004, 05:45 PM
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the Shrike
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Mr Darcy, and he's mine, so back off!
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11-16-2004, 05:48 PM
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The Blobbit
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I have to deal with a gf who likes little ol' Elijah... *sobs*
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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11-16-2004, 06:11 PM
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Lady of Letters
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Is Elijah Wood fictional? (serious question)
Come on Janny, who's yours? 
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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11-16-2004, 06:13 PM
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the Shrike
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Wait... Blobbit has a girlfriend? Christ...
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11-16-2004, 06:14 PM
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Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. |
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11-16-2004, 06:22 PM
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 I don't really get what people like about Darcy. Personally my favourite Austen hero is Henry Tilney, the one no one ever remembers... I get him all to myself...
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11-16-2004, 06:39 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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I like Henry Tilney, but I like Darcy better ...
*kicks BOP into the ocean and grabs Darcy* Hmm, who else? I'll have to think, when I can get my mind off Tuor and Fingon ...
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11-16-2004, 07:03 PM
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The first handful aren't in any particular order, but there is a general gist of best to ... still best but not best'est' Horatio Hornblower (books/movies of same title) Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (with all his names!) Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables books) Colonel Brandon [hmm? I think I'm falling away from this one now; Henry Tilney is also rising up at the same time] John Brooke (Little Women) Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind) [ah...maybe not] Kester Woodseaves (Precious Bane) Mr. Darcy Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre) [at least while I'm reading the book; as with Brandon this is falling away] John Ridd (from Lorna Doone; that movie they made from it was pretty decent) Bertie Wooster (from books by PG Wodehouse) [and not because I want to reform him or anything] *note that was an old list I found from a different board. stuff in [ ] is my new notes. lol I just realized most are English. With some American & Canadians.
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11-16-2004, 07:08 PM
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Lady of Letters
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Someone else likes Bertie Wooster! I thought that was just me being weird (by the way, anyone who's seen Janny and me praising Boris Johnson - Boris is basically an older Bertie. I don't think that's why I like him...)
I agree about Gilbert Blythe, obviously. And until I can make a fuller list of my own, I have two words. Prince. Caspian. *swoon*
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11-16-2004, 07:37 PM
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*kicks rian back* Mine! Finder's Keepers!
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11-16-2004, 07:51 PM
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Sooo... tempting. Must resist the urge to say something really evil.
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11-16-2004, 08:40 PM
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This male only? Because there are good female characters out there...
always had a crush on Beatrice myself.
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11-16-2004, 08:49 PM
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I want Darcy. |
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11-16-2004, 09:34 PM
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Sir Kay! My favourite knight... well...
 (of Arthurian legends)Oh yeah, it's a fictional crush! Who are these Darcy and Beatrice people! If you name yer crush, at least identify the book.
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11-16-2004, 09:52 PM
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Beatrice is from (in this case) Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare, c. 1599. As opposed to Dante's.
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I generally do... I'm just keepin' my options open.  Darcy as in Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Nurv...
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Any of you guys out there like any Jane Austen babes?
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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11-17-2004, 07:55 AM
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Elf Lord
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From Tolkien, I always had a thing for Arwen - possibly cos she chose love over immortality and I'm a romantic at heart...or maybe cos I recall her being 'the fairest in Middle Earth' and I'm very shallow! The lovely Liv sort of reinforced that crush.
And there was Chani in 'Dune' too (think that's her name).
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