Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Which hobbit is the hero of The Lord of the Rings?

The definitive answer can be found at my Notion Club Papers blog...

7 comments:

c matt said...

Samwise, I thought?

Bruce Charlton said...

cmatt - You thought wrong...

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

"Well," I thought, "he wouldn't have written a post on such an obvious question unless he had some non-obvious answer to give!" Turns out I thought wrong, too.

Bruce Charlton said...

@Wm - Well, from what I know you still count as a naive reader, so that is natural; but I may have saved you from future sophomoric error?

Ranger said...

Reading the comments here, I thought for a moment you were making a case for Merry.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

By modern standards, it ought to be Ted Sandyman, right?

Bruce Charlton said...

@Wm - Ha, yes!

But a search reveals you aren't the first to think of it - Ted himself got there before you, apparently...

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/907020/1/Would-You-Lead-These-Lambs-Astray