Meme

Aug. 28th, 2008 10:39 pm
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1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

So, [livejournal.com profile] la_marquise_de gave me the letter G. Problematic that one: "S" would've been so much easier (Servalan, Saruman, Shelob, Spock, Sherlock Holmes....). "G", well, has I find surprisingly few female names. Still, here goes:

  • Gobbolino, the witch's cat. What can I say: cats? witches? sibling rivalry? a fall from a broomstick? (that bit was very scary) a search for home and family? Sometime after I had ceased to demand a nightly reading of The Witch of Willow Wood (Twinkle annual c.1970) (cat, witch...), I read Gobbolino, and then read it again and again. It's the same story as Pinocchio or The Little Wooden Horse, the central character a misfit searching for his own place, where he can be accepted, with the adventures good and bad that happen along the way. I can still feel the outrage I felt then that one small patch of white fur should render Gobbolino a complete failure as a witch's cat. So unfair.
  • Gollum. I always wondered how LOTR would have worked as the tale of Gollum's tragic decline. His fear and pain. His tremendous journeying. The great love of his life and his great loss. All that with all those sibilants, preciousssssss.
  • Grendel's mother. Yes, I know, this is probably cheating: who knows what her name actually starts with. I always felt a great deal of sympathy with her and the unfairness (to her, at least) of her loss. It's occurred to me that she's the difficult second album of the Beowulf story, stuck uncomfortably between the debut, Grendel--not quite a complete repetition of it, not quite enough of a departure--and the Dragon. Again, I rather want to picture the story from her POV (and I'm sure folk must have done this) rather than from the hero's.
  • Garak. He's a tailor. Cool: how often do you get tailoring in a TV series, especially in sf? Even if it's only a cover. A character in a tricky situation and some peril. A grey area. Actually an entire grey region. As good a morally ambiguous character as you're likely to find in Star Trek. (And I always fancy the dodgy aliens.)
  • Ged. Not quite my favourite wizard (see the "S" list, above), but the Earthsea trilogy (or, the first 2/3 of it) terrified me for years. I think what I like most about Ged was he actually grew convincingly. I enjoyed his delight in his abilities and aptitude for learning. I mourned his loss of this. I felt for his social awkwardness. I enjoyed that he worked through these difficulties, but they didn't simply wash away as if they had never been. The mage who deals with Prince Arren is the same person as the village boy who encounters prejudice when he first arrives on Roke. I've enjoyed the course the later books took, too.

(I also considered including Galadriel (but only the Galadriel in the mirror), Don Camillo's God (definitely fictional), those Orkney brothers whose names began with G (although that would've been a tad unkind to Agravaine) the entire Groan clan (and their cats and owls), and Garnie.)

Date: 2008-08-29 11:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
Ah, Gobbolino... he was my first major fictional cat, I think.

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