![]() ![]() ![]() The trouble with your usual hero is that he’s horribly dangerous to have around. The trouble with your usual hero of song and story isn’t just that he’s usually a real pain in the neck, what with his sense of destiny and higher purpose. they found themselves saddled with the absolutely crazy job of destroying the Ring of Power in the Cracks of Doom in the heart of the Enemy’s stronghold, and they didn’t have the first idea of how to go about it. ![]() ![]() Herein lies part of the peculiar fascination of Tolkien’s hobbits. Wizards are neat.) I’m a pretty small-potatoes chap, myself, the sort of fellow who is easily foiled by the cap on a medicine bottle, and if anyone took it into his head to wave a sword in my direction, I’m reasonably certain I would have to sit down. the Douglas Dumbrille of Camelot, are more to my taste, in that they at least resemble human beings who behave more or less the way you and 1 would if we were to find ourselves plumped down in the middle of the bunch of poseurs, bullies, and muscle-bound bumpkins who m^de up the fellowship of the Round Table. (I mean, you never hear of Launcelot taking cold showers, do you?) Arthur and especially Mordred. Galahad has always impressed me asbeing a real twerp, and Launcelot and Guinevere have got to be the greatest one-problem couple of all time-a pair of otherwise insufferably perfect people with this little problem that they keep around like a pet cat. As a rule, knights in armor seldom fail to leave me utterly cold. ![]()
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