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Chani rules!! I haven't seen the movie, but she is so cool in the books. I don't have a crush on her though, only on eligible knights...
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galadriel... not the movie one
outside tolkien? tough call... scout finch from "to kill a mockingbird" is probably my all-time favorite literary female... but she's a bit young in that book... maybe in ten years or so 
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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, 12:48 PM
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Ummm guys.... wasn't he about 15?
 Scout Finch rules! Maybe a grown-up Scout eh Brownie? 
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But R*an's still old enough to be his mother  EDIT: Thought of another one - Eugene Wrayburn from Our Mutual Friend. Be patient with me, I'm at an all-girls college
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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, 06:36 PM
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The Chani in the dune miniseries was WAY too water-fat.
 And I will NEVER EVER get over Paul being played by bum-face in the movie. 
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11-18-2004, 08:48 AM
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Darcy (JA's novel) is quite a fellow. I also liked Simon from the Dragonbone chair series.
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11-18-2004, 10:13 AM
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My Tolkien-crushes are Faramir and Boromir, totally. That's Tolkien, mind you, not Jackson. Although Sean Bean is pretty good as Boromir.
Non-Tolkien include- Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables)- so sweet. Lancelot (Idylls of the King)- what a hunk. Jack O'Malley (The O'Malley Series)- funny, romantic. Tavington (The Patriot)- there's something in those beautiful eyes every now and again that tells you he cannot really be evil.
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11-18-2004, 10:22 AM
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Pah, Simon was annoying!
Never finished that series...Have missed quite alot of good female characters me thinks...the best tend to be male (...possible I read to many male authors ). But Arya must be one of my all-time favorites. And that girl in Hobb's first triology.
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11-18-2004, 10:53 AM
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Well if we're widening it out to artwork that allows graphic novels - so I'm gonna say Halo Jones. What a gal!
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Or Goku from DragonBallZ! Erm, never mind that Chi Chi would kick my ass.
How much does Goku rule though? How much!!
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*rises above unwarented personal attacks on subject of love life*
*notes sun-star's status as single* You know, maybe I don't read enough, but I've always felt better admiring the individual aspects and traits of real people. Am I alone on this one?
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Of course not, but we're just having some harmless fun here Janny.
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No, no, I'm not knocking it.
I just meant that I actually find it really hard to be moved by fictional people when the world is so amply populated with real people. I meant to ask if I was alone in not being able to have a fictional (or even celebrity) crush.
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Ugh - I don't have ANY celebrity crushes!
The fictional crushes are being highly (repeat - HIGHLY) exaggerated for fun
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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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*Shuts up as to not require people to defend themselves
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a) no, you don't read enough
b) we're kidding EDIT: Also, I would argue that fictional crushes and celebrity crushes aren't really the same thing. All you can know about a celebrity is their image, and so the closest thing to a relationship you can have with them is likely to be your own imaginative construction (not to shatter anyone's dreams here, guys ). You don't know anything about who they are, just who you'd like them to be. With fictional characters, on the other hand, you really can get inside their heads. You can follow their experiences, thoughts and development, often over a long period. Most likely you know their interior life better than you know that of a person you've got a crush on in real life. It's impossible for a fictional crush to be entirely physical, as celebrity crushes are - there has to be some element of admiring the character's personality as well. So really it makes more sense to have crushes on fictional characters than on real people you don't know anything about. Also, this kind of reaction to a character is part of the novel-reading process. Most novels encourage readers to be attracted to their characters, and in some novels you could argue that it's the author's intention for you to fancy their character - Jane Austen wants you as a reader to find Darcy attractive, because otherwise you don't get why Lizzy likes him. L.M. Montgomery wants you to find Gilbert sweet because then not only do you understand why Anne likes him, but you accepts the message she's putting across in the character (he's self-sacrificing and loyal => self-sacrifice and loyalty are good) and you get emotionally involved in the plot because you want Anne and Gilbert to get together. If you don't have strong reactions to the characters, the author's failed to make you believe in them. It only gets a bit dubious if you know it's against the grain of the novel's intention - as it is with Narnia, I'm afraid. No way did C.S. Lewis want little girls to fall in love with Caspian! But as any lit student will tell you, reading against the grain is seriously fun And as I said, we're only kidding. I didn't mean to write such an essay... but I gave this some thought because it's such a common reader response that it's not really fair to see it as an abnormality, Janny
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