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Faramir 25 Aragorn 21 Eomer 19 Sam 19 Eowyn 19 Gandalf 17 Galadriel 13 King Theoden 13 Balrog 11 Pippin 9 Merry 9 Frodo 7 Prince Imrahil 3
-- Eomer -- Prince Imrahil ++ Balrog
(I read LOTR a long time ago; characters whom I don't even remember (Prince Imrahil) or for whom I don't remember a single thing they did (Eomer) get --. I give the balrog ++ because I remember a lot about its episode; and when I read that part for the first time I was playing a computer RPG that contained similar-looking creatures named balrons, so when I came upon the balrog I thought, "So that's where they got that name from!")
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Faramir 25 Aragorn 21 Eomer 19 Sam 19 Eowyn 19 Gandalf 17 Galadriel 15 King Theoden 13 Balrog 11 Pippin 9 Merry 9 Frodo 7 Prince Imrahil 1
-- Prince Imrahil -- Balrog ++ Galadriel
Death of Bilbo (first enactment of the 48 hour rule): Bilbo stepped out of his snug hobbit hole and onto the Road, humming "The Road Goes Ever, Ever On." As he often said, "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." This turned out to be literally true in this case, as the Brandywine River had flooded, turning the Road into a raging River. Bilbo was never heard from again.
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Death of Prince Imrahil, Lord of Dol Amroth by the sea. Long had been the journey from the Bay of Balfalas to Minas Tirith. The men of Dol Amroth, tall and proud, mail shining in the waning light, and swords glistening with the timeless shine of ancient craftsmanship, rode high in the saddles of their glorious horses. They looked high to the tops of the city, hundreds of feet into the air and saw the good people of Gondor's chief city cheering their entrance, and cheering their lord and captain, Prince Imrahil.
He entered the city with fanfare. He was one of the few left who could trace his blood back to the ancient men of Westernesse, and those that came with him were just as fair to look upon. Two thousand in number, but really numbers did them no justice, not for what they represented. Imrahil did not look forward to the coming meeting with Denethor. Deeply buried in his heart was a bitterness over the death of his sister Finduilas, and somewhere in his heart he blamed Denethor and the city of stone that stole his beloved sister away from the sea she loved so much.
But he came at the call of Gondor's Lord, until the king returned to claim his title. It wasn't long once he was inside the city's walls that the Battle of the Pelennor Fields began. The hordes of Mordor came wave after wave upon the battle rallied forces of Gondor, bursting upon the stone walls of Minas Tirith as water upon the rocks by the sea. Imrahil kept his men together, as the only cavalry forces of Gondor, his men were vital in breaking the horde of orcs upon the field. But even his men could not stop the host before him. It wasn't long before they were pressed inside the walls. The enemy wasted no time in bringing forth Grond, like the arm of the devil himself, named for Morgoth's mighty hammer, it smote the gates of Minas Tirith, letting loose a torrent of cursed black armor into the city.
And from some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed, wrecking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. And Imrahil heard over the hills, horns horns horns, great horns of the north wildly blowing, echoing far and wide over the fields of the Pelennor in the distance. In that moment, the hearts of his people cast off the shade of Mordor and let loose with the morning light. The mighty horses of the north stampeded across the fields, turning the tide for the forces of food, and driving the orcs and trolls to the edge of the river Anduin, upon the very Harlond itself.
Imrahil charged with the others, chasing the orcs, and Easterlings, the huge trolls in their rocking carriages of doom, and the massive mumakil war oliphants with their Haradrim lords. The battle was theirs! Against all odds, and against all hope marked with fear of loss, they had won the day.
Yet the tide would turn once more. The mighty Numenorean men of Dol Amroth, city by the sea, looked up with faces pale to see a fleet of black ships. The words of Denethor had proven true, and so also lost were Ethir and Lebinnin, lands we had thought safe and protected. And was Dol Amroth lost as well?
His heart busrting with sorrow, he rushed upon the enemy, who upon seeing the ships were filled with glee, and turned on their pursuers, changing the fortune of battle yet again. Imrahil let loose a wrath of ancient power upon the orcs, hewing a great many, smoting them upon the rocks and staining the walls of the Ranmas Echor with their blood. But he cut too far into their lines. Soon he found himself alone, with but a few of his knights around him, surrounded by orcs on all sides. He heard the shouts of his men beyond the orcs shouting in vain, charging valiantly, butchering valiantly, but in the end served only to ease their sorrow.
The great lord Imrahil, Lord and Prince of Dol Amroth fell fighting many enemies, like his nephew Boromir, no help would come to save him. His legacy would live on in Lothloriel, his daughter, and his once still living sister. And few would remember the day that Imrahil, son of Numenor and Lorien fell upon the walls of Minas Tirith.
(sorry it was so long, but I had to do his death justice)
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-- Balrog (Flaming whip and all) -- Eomer (Why accept a substitute ...) ++ Aragorn (... when you can have the real thing?)
Still owed are the deaths of The One Ring and Shadowfax. 48 hour rule is in effect. If no one carts off the horse carcass soon, I'm sending it to the glue factory.
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++Sam (I love Sam.) --Balrog (same reason as I always vote him down) --Faramir (this was the hard one. I love all the other characters. But Faramir is so high on the scale he can afford to lose a few while I decide who to kill!)
[edit cuz it helps when you adjust the score when you vote *feels smrt*]
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Sam ++ (I wish I could give him more...I love Sam) Frodo -- (not so fond of the guy...I know he is the hero and all but...) King Theoden -- (Because he practically gave his kingdom to the enemy)
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(I adjusted Sam because Dr. Strangelove forgot to on his vote) -- Balrog ++ Galadriel -- Sam (net shift = 0 due to Dr. Strangelove adjustment, see note above)
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++ Sam (how could I have forgotten to add his votes before?! I stand ashamed) -- Galadriel (Because I had to pick someone) -- Eomer (same as Galadriel)
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-- Sam (cause he can afford it) ++ Frodo (cause that's what Sam would want) -- Balrog (the bridge of Khazad-dum is beginning to crumble under its feet...)
Death of TOR and Shadowfax (because it's bugging me): After grazing on some lovely grass, Shadowfax went to take a drink. At the bottom of the pool he saw a beautiful ring. The ring called to him; he thrust his body into the pool and grasped the ring between his teeth. Power flooded through him great enough to turn the whole world into a fertile grazing plain. In excitement he whinnied, swallowing the ring.
Driven mad by his brush with supreme power, Shadowfax ran wild, rampaging through Middle-Earth. The ring stayed safe in his belly. Exactly one year later servents of Sauron (who is already dead, but go with it), surmising the cause of the stallion's madness, brought him to Mordor. But the great beast broke loose and, in his madness, galloped headlong up the slopes of Oroduin and into the Cracks of Doom. As the horse and ring plunged into the fiery depths of the mountain, Shadowfax's madness left him, and his final thought before oblivion was of the green, grassy fields of Rohan.
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-- Eomer (as before) -- Faramir (as before) ++ Frodo (I still can't figure out why he's so low)
Although I gave my first two ++ votes to the balrog, now I think it would be pretty silly for a monster to win, so I'm not voting for it anymore.
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++ Faramir (because I love him) -- Galadriel (I don't know about you, but the perfectly rounded fingernails always really bugged me.) -- Frodo (whiney. That's all I have to say about that)
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++ Gandalf (meh) -- Merry(Not exactly a name you'd like to shout while parading down the streets of Minas Tirith, more a San Franscisco thing.) -- Sam(Hobbits just don't immpress me)
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++Eomer, because he's got the coolest armor of anyone. --Galadriel, because I hated that actress in the movie. --Faramir, for being an enabler in his father's abusive fatherhood.
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