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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3776716" data-attributes="member: 48692">I don't understand where you get off making personal attacks when I just stated my opinion.  I wouldn't exactly consider most of the Fellowship of the Ring to be perfect, nor many of the characters in DL.  FR's characters oftentimes don't seem to have any discernible flaws.  Flint is short-tempered and grouchy, Pippin Took is impetuous and reckless, Gandalf and the dwarves leech off of Bilbo Baggins' hospitality, and Biblo himself is an unremitting complainer on the journey.  And none of the characters are presentede as being almost flawless in every way-Gandalf refused to take the One Ring, knowing full well that he could be corrupted by it just as anyone else.  Feanor was a hard-headed, arrogant bastard.  If Frodo wasn't whining about his place in the world, he wasn't exactly bold and gung-ho about fulfilling his duty.  Storm Silverhand, however, is either saving the world (oftentimes being personally rescued by Mystra) for the 519th time, celebrated by the elves, or being an all-kind, all-cheerful, and all-powerful being who never seems to burn out, never seems to be wrong, and never seems to be unable to solve the problem.  Characters who seem arrogant are usually portrayed positively by the author, or the reader is supposed to sympathize with them-if Storm or Elminster criticize someone, the implication is that they deserve it.  Drizzt and company, at least, have some problems of their own.  Whether it's Bruenor's letting his emotions cloud his judgment and judging people without knowing them, Drizzt's overconfidence getting the better of him, or Cattie-brie's outspokenness making her seem irritating and rude (at least to me, on occasion), the characters at least have some flaws in them that make them at least a little more human.  As to my being "pathetic" and "harboring resentment", I fail to see how insults improve the quality of the discussion.</blockquote>

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