HammerOfGod Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Male: Matrim Cauthon WOT... Gambler, Womanizer...what's not to like Female: Nynaeve Al'Mera WOT... Nynaeve is just so Nynaeve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Roses Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Faramir Smaug Silk Galadriel Feanor Jadis, Queen of Charn/White Witch Jimmy the Hand Raistlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakLoufer Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 [quote name='Alys Karstark' post='1526634' date='Sep 22 2008, 00.35']In no particular order: Sand dan Glokta --- The First Law Dogman --- The First Law Locke Lamora --- Gentleman Bastards Aziraphale --- Good Omens Crowley (formerly Crawly) --- Good Omens Iskierka --- Temeraire Lucao Psellus --- Engineer Trilogy [b]Gace Daurenja --- Engineer Trilogy[/b][/quote] Glad to see I'm not the only person who liked him. He was the Mule of the Engineer Trilogy. SPOILER: EscapementToo bad his cannon didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashara Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Ferro, Bayaz - The First Law Locke Lamora - Gentelmen-Bastards Kay's Brilliant Male - any of Kay's Books Cat Begemot - Bulgakov's Master and Margarita Patience/Epiny and Fool - Robin Hobb Feanor - Tolkien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urizen Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Matrim Cauthon (WoT) Tehol Beddict and Bugg (Malazan) Iskaral Pust (Malazan) Shadowthrone (Malazan) Apsalar(Malazan) Rasitlin (Dragonlance) Ebenazar (Dresden Files) Someone I don't get who seem to be high on people's list is Fitz from the Farseer books. My god, What a tool. keeping your word is commendable but not in the face of commmon sense, when it's blatantly used against you. "I'll let selfish, evil Regal commit regicide (fingering me for the crime) steal his brothers throne and torture me brutally but I will not move against him. Oh no, you see, I made vow not to raise my hand against the royal family, this at the mature age of three" Worst. Protagionist. Ever. Regal as the main antagonist isn't much better either. If not for feeling bad for the commoners, I would have rooted for the Raiders and hoped they'd both get killed. Can someone who like the guy explain what's so great about him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pita Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Every now and then you get a mediocre series that is elevated into a good one by a single character. Raistlin and Drizzt (even though he's emo) are two perfectly good examples. Also, any of Pterry's characters. I just love Vetinari, Vimes, Carrot, Mort, Death, (not Susan), Otto, William, Moist, and who can't love Mr. Teh-ah-tim-eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slurktan Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Rand al' Thor Superman Isildur Roland Deschain Tomas Ashen-Shugar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookWyrm Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I thought this was an interesting topic, so here's a little bump: Odysseus – The Iliad, The Odyssey Bilbo Baggins – The Hobbit, (LOTR?) Gandalf – The Hobbit, LOTR Sam - LOTR King Arthur – The Once & Future King Sir Lancelot – The Once & Future King Merlin – The Once & Future King Roland Deschain – The Dark Tower Corwin – Amber Achamian – PoN Cnaiur – PoN Kellhus (Love/hate feelings for this guy) - PoN Elric (Also a love/hate thing) – The “Eternal Champion†stuff Cugel – Dying Earth Conan the Cimmerian – The “Conan†stories Jonathan Strange – Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Pennywise – It Bill Denbrough - It Aillas – Lyonesse trilogy Shimrod – Lyonesse trilogy Madouc – lyonesse trilogy King Throbius - Lyonesse trilogy Gwydion – Mabinogion tetralogy The Gray Mouser – Lankhmar books Orion – The King of Elfland’s Daughter Schmendrick – The Last Unicorn Sir Able – Wizard Knight Tristran Thorn – Stardust Darrell Standing - The Star Rover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheep the Evicted Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Looks like Glokta is the clear forerunner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 gandalf - LotR, hobbit, silmarillion f'lar - chronicles of pern lessa - chronicles of pern jimmy the hand - riftwar, serpentwar, krondor harry potter - just kidding :D of course, i kept aSoIaF characters out of it... there are just too many... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UndergroundMan Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Sam (LOTR) FitzChivalry and The Fool (Farseer and Tawny Man) Lancelot (Once and Future King) Snape and Hermione (Harry Potter) Mat Cauthon (WOT) Drizzt Do'Urden (Forgotten Realms) Jake and Roland Deschain (Dark Tower) Thomas Covenant (Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) Kvothe (Kingkiller Chronicles) Eragon.... just kidding And I only just started the series but Glokta is really cool character from The First Law Trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvilKing Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Farseer/Tawny Man - Nighteyes, Chade Liveships - Captain Kennit, Malta Prince of Nothing - Kellhus, Cnaiur Malazan - Karsa Orlong Gentlemen Bastards - Locke Lamora LOTR - Gollum Silmarillion - Turin Turambar First Law - Ferro Name of the Wind - Kvothe Wheel of Time - Rand & Mat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski the Swift Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Amos Trask Rupert 'Roo' Avery Kevin of LaMut Cnaiur Elu Thingol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dornish prince Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 not really fantasy, but i've recently met a new character by the name of takeshi kovacs. he's all kinds of awesome. you can find him in a couple of richard morgan novels. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactus Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Galan of Taa, naturally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik of Hazelfield Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Cugel from Jack Vance's Dying Earth universe. He's one sneaky bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pita Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I'll add Vlad Taltos to this list, as well as Ganoes Paran, Kalam, Cotillion, Ammannas, and actually most Malazan characters in the Malazan series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnes Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Inquisitor Sand dan Glokta - First Law series Uhtred Ragnarson - Cornwell's Saxon series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrja Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Wow.....I am realizing that besides the aSoIaF, the Gentemen Bastards, and the typical stuff (LotR, WoT, HP), I can barely recognize most of the fantasy characters people have chosen. Maybe its because I don't read much pure fantasy these days, but it seems like I'm missing a lot of interesting characters! I'll have to check a lot of these series out sometime. I just spent the last few years reading almost nothing but OE and ON medieval texts (for graduate school) and therefore have a lot favs from those. So bear with this rather long list. (I hope its not cheating to use medieval fantasy characters? They're mostly all larger than life, after all. :P) From [i]Beowulf[/i] ~ Beowulf ~ Grendel's mother ~ Wiglaf ~ The Dragon From Gawain and the Green Knight: ~ The Green Knight From the Eddas (Old Norse/Germanic myth): ~ Týr ~ Óðinn ~ Sleipnir (can't forget the horses now!) ~ Þórr ~ Baldr ~ Jormungandr (The Midgard Serpent) ~Yggdrasill (trees are characters too of course) ~ Volundr/Weland the Smith (he's just so creepy and vengeful, yet so pathetic) From various legendary sagas: ~ Brynhildr the Valkyrie ~ Sigurdr, the dragonslayer ~ The Jomsvikings ~ Bodvarr Bjarki, the shape-shifter ~ Örvar-Oddr ~ The shieldmaiden Hervor ~ The sword Tyrfing (yes, a sword can be a character!) From [i]The Kalevala[/i]: ~ Väinämöinen ~ The smith, Ilmarinen ~ Kullervo, inspiration for Turin Turumbar From the celtic myths: ~ CuChullain, hands down ;) ~ Caer Ibormeith and Aengus Og (Ok, there are a lot more mythic/legendary characters I could list, but I'll move on to modern fantasy....) From Tolkien: ~ Gandalf (so Odinic, I can't help myself) ~ Shadowfax ~ Snowmane (honorary favorite ;) ) ~ The White Tree of Gondor ~ Treebeard and the Ents ~ Turin Turumbar (and his cursed sword, the Mormegil, and his helm, the Dragon-helm of Dor-lomin) ~ Maedhros (I have a thing for flame-haired, one-handed Noldorian lords) ~ Beren One-hand ~ Luthien Tinuviel (especially when she shapeshifts into a creepy bat!) ~ Earendil the Mariner ~ ~ Aragorn son of Arathorn, King Elessar, etc. ~ Faramir :) From Harry Potter (yes I love HP, deal with it!): ~ The Marauders (as a whole) ~ Sirius Black ~ Remus J. Lupin ~ Fred and George Weasley From Juliet Marillier's [i]The Sevenwaters Trilogy[/i]: ~ Sorcha ~ Hugh of Harrowfield ~ Finbar ~ Liadan ~ Bran, the Painted Man From [i]The Last Unicorn[/i]: ~ Shmendrick the Magician, Last of the Red-Hot Swamies ;) ~ Molly Grue ~ The Unicorn Not really fantasy I suppose, but I also really love Uhtred of Bebbanburg from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series, and Orm the Bearslayer from Robert Low's [i]The Whale Road [/i] and [i]The Wolf Sea[/i]. I simply cannot resist well-written Vikings! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pita Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I forgot some Sandman characters, namely, Dream and Death. The Corinthian also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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