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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9458601" data-attributes="member: 18182">I'm mostly with you, but I wouldn't say this story doesn't have its heroes . . .We definitely have heroes in this story. Tragic, flawed heroes, but heroes. With the elves we have Galadriel and Arondir. The dwarves we have Durin the Younger and his wife Disa. All of the hobbits, especially Nori and Poppy, and their Istari friend the Grand-elf.Lots of competence also . . . especially some bad-ass fight scenes for the elven heroes that would make Legolas blush.In real life, we humans, even the best of us, are flawed and make terrible . . . &quot;dumb&quot; . . . decisions. In some fantastic stories, sometimes the heroes are unrealistically free (or nearly so) of flaws. The Fellowship in Jackson's films were like this, except perhaps the hobbits and Boromir. This fantasy story has heroes, but more grounded in the sense they are mortal and flawed.We even get some good anti-heroes in Adar . . . and even Sauron himself, if you look at things from his warped perspective.I like it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 9458601, member: 18182"] I'm mostly with you, but I wouldn't say this story doesn't have its heroes . . . We definitely have heroes in this story. Tragic, flawed heroes, but heroes. With the elves we have Galadriel and Arondir. The dwarves we have Durin the Younger and his wife Disa. All of the hobbits, especially Nori and Poppy, and their Istari friend the Grand-elf. Lots of competence also . . . especially some bad-ass fight scenes for the elven heroes that would make Legolas blush. In real life, we humans, even the best of us, are flawed and make terrible . . . "dumb" . . . decisions. In some fantastic stories, sometimes the heroes are unrealistically free (or nearly so) of flaws. The Fellowship in Jackson's films were like this, except perhaps the hobbits and Boromir. This fantasy story has heroes, but more grounded in the sense they are mortal and flawed. We even get some good anti-heroes in Adar . . . and even Sauron himself, if you look at things from his warped perspective. I like it. [/QUOTE]

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