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• Species 8472

  

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  December 21, 2014 2:57 PM EST

  What characters from Lotr are like characters from any of the Elder Scrolls games?

• Tom

  

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  December 21, 2014 3:42 PM EST

  Your phrasing is wrong.

  "What characters from Elder Scrolls are like characters from the Lord of the Rings?"

  Lord if the Ring precedes TES.

• Deleted Member

  
   

  December 21, 2014 3:52 PM EST

  I'll bite. 

  Morrowind is Mordor. Both are awful places, and both are ruled by devils. :P

• Species 8472

  

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  December 22, 2014 2:55 AM EST

  It's a minor error, the discussion still stands.

• Species 8472

  

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  December 27, 2014 1:52 PM EST

  Hehehe, yeah I was kind of thinking Morrowind was Mordor too.

• adds-many-comments

  

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  December 27, 2014 6:29 PM EST

  After sauron was defeated, the race of men took over mordor and it became bright blue skies and grasslands I think.
• Tom

  

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  December 27, 2014 6:53 PM EST

  If you include Rhun as part of Mordor. Rhun was always fertile grasslands surrounding the Sea of Rhun. What people consider Mordor is usually the furthest western areas around Mount Doom and Barad-dur. That was inhospitable, but Sauron ruled over the men who lived further east for centuries, and their land was always fine.

• Caesar Strong-Heart

  

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  December 28, 2014 4:04 AM EST

  Thorin Oakenshield-Ulfric Stormcloak

  Theoden of Rohan-Balgruuf the Greater

  Whitch-King of Angmar-Dagoth Ur

  Aragorn-Martin Septim

  Legolas Greenleaf-Faendal

  Denethor-Igmund

• Tom

  

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  December 28, 2014 5:29 AM EST

  Are you characterizing based on appearance, personality, or actions?

• Caesar Strong-Heart

  

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  December 28, 2014 10:41 AM EST

  In a way, all of them. Not necessarily for every character, but all of them.

• Tom

  

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  December 28, 2014 6:06 PM EST

  I like the Théoden and Balgruuf comparison, but I think the Legolas-Faendal is true to the extent they're elves who use bows.

  Witch-King and Dagoth Ur is pretty nice too, but Dagoth Ur wasn't really the servant to a greater power.

  Which makes me think of comparing Mannimarco to Sauron.

  Powerful magic-users who served entirely evil masters in the past, but their masters were destroyed. Both associated with necromancy, and both portrayed themselves to their followers as gods, and both defeated but not entirely destroyed.

• Caesar Strong-Heart

  

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  December 29, 2014 2:23 AM EST

  I don't know...Faendal's aditude seems familiar to that of Legolas. The Mannimarco/Sauron comparison is true on many levels, though.