Character crush--got one?

[cathyfreeze]

Originally Posted by AllieKat

cathyfreeze, I like your icon. He's cute. The Nightstalker. XD;;

He is a dreamboat, there, isn't he? And he was nice, unlike the character in the books, imho. I loved him best in NightStalker. Unlike the remake a couple years ago, which they tried to fill with grimth to the detriment of the stories. For one, they took away his sweet interactions with his colleagues as well as his sense of humor. You can't take yourself so seriously when you're finding and combating every cliche character in the book like that.

I've had lots of celebrity and fictional crushes, guys I think are awesomely cute, with or without good reason.

I think this list is proof that we all have. Heh.

Stephen Maturin from the Patrick O'Brian novels. I just love his thorny, reserved, brainy, scrawny self. I love his love of animals and learning and nature and how wonderfully, unselfconsciously geeky he is about insects, and animals, and oh, my, everything. I didn't like the way he was portrayed in the movie, though

Oooh. Not one i know, but from your description, one i *want* to know. Thanks!

cat

[Libbie]

Oh, my. I have a powerful crush on Petyr Baelish.

I am that kind of girl, yes.

[Libbie]

Originally Posted by Kitty Pryde

Umm, I'm pretty sure they already had Jeremy Irons play him in The Colour of Magic

Oh, you said the magic word.

That reminds me: In the 1997 film version of Lolita, I disturbed myself by developing a crush on Jeremy Irons-Humbert. O___O

Also, I'm surprised to see that in all the mentions of Firefly characters, nobody has crushed on Jayne. WHAAT? Jayne is scrumptious.

[Subcreator]

Originally Posted by jodiodi

In the Silmarillon, Glorfindel dies killing a Balrog in the Fall of Gondolin so the people can escape. There is some controversy among Tolkien scholars as to whether it's the same Glorfindel who was re-embodied or just someone with the same name. However, he has the same physical description and attributes and in FotR (I think), it's mentioned that he dwells in both the Blessed Realm and in Middle Earth.

A Tolkien scholar would know better than I would. That's just my brain damaged memory. It's a little tricky since I read the books as a child and have had several Sudden Cardiac Deaths since then with resulting memory issues.

It seems pretty clear that when originally written, Tolkien wasn't thinking of them as the same Glorfindel. It was a slip, possibly because he really liked the name Glorfindel. (Who doesn't?) But when called out on the two Glorfindels he confirmed the reincarnation story.

Originally Posted by MGraybosch

From what I remember, elves who die dwell for a time in the Halls of Mandos before being reincarnated. So it's entirely possible that Glorfindel died with his boots on, got over it, and was there to to help at Rivendell.

Not quite. Some Elves CAN be reincarnated at need, but it is unusual. Most Elves who die just hang out in Mandos til the end of the world.

[AllieKat]

Originally Posted by cathyfreeze

Oooh. Not one i know, but from your description, one i *want* to know. Thanks!

cat

He's one of the two main characters in the Patrick O'Brian sea novels. They feature Captain Aubrey, and Stephen Maturin. They're friends who travel the seas. Maturin is a surgeon, naturalist, and spy. Both men get in lots of scrapes, have occasional romantic angsts (once they nearly duel over a woman), and get shipwrecked, captured by enemies and thrown in jail, are the subject of political plots against them, and, oh, my, I'm making them sound so put-upon! They're actual cool and capable guys. I can't help loving the brainy Maturin most, though.