Which is why I think Tolkien had so many Heroes in his story, to fulfill expectations of one kind or another.
Aragorn: the King, Healer and Romantic (Arthurian Hero to the hilt) Frodo: the Everyman saddled with Great Responsibility, for whom life doesn't end up completely well because he worked for the Greater Good Gandalf: the Magickster, who moves around the plot-line institgating and helping to solve problems, and gets his just reward (going home) at the end of the Quest Faramir: a Princeling who echoes the King's plotline in order to give the reader another version of the King's plotline of Romance - AND he gets to tame a warrior woman, to boot! Samwise Gamgee: who goes on to marry the woman of his dreams, live with his bestest friend eveh (Frodo), in direct contrast with Frodo, who ends up giving his home to Sam, who was surely as heroic as Frodo himself was.
I could go on.
And I could go on. (and note how male oriented all of these Romances are)
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Date: 2007-12-22 02:02 am (UTC)Aragorn: the King, Healer and Romantic (Arthurian Hero to the hilt)
Frodo: the Everyman saddled with Great Responsibility, for whom life doesn't end up completely well because he worked for the Greater Good
Gandalf: the Magickster, who moves around the plot-line institgating and helping to solve problems, and gets his just reward (going home) at the end of the Quest
Faramir: a Princeling who echoes the King's plotline in order to give the reader another version of the King's plotline of Romance - AND he gets to tame a warrior woman, to boot!
Samwise Gamgee: who goes on to marry the woman of his dreams, live with his bestest friend eveh (Frodo), in direct contrast with Frodo, who ends up giving his home to Sam, who was surely as heroic as Frodo himself was.
I could go on.
And I could go on. (and note how male oriented all of these Romances are)