Poll: The most badass member of the Fellowship.

[Barbas]

You wanted it[footnote]Probably.[/footnote], you got it! Put your voice in for the most badass member of the Fellowship. Frodo and Sam didn't make the poll because they're slags.

My nomination goes to...

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[HEADING=1]Gimli[/HEADING]​

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Son of Gloin [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CPxh3nLWl2I/ST7NFahWK9I/AAAAAAAAAJE/918mavA7SKQ/s1600/sheik_hairyboy.jpg], dependable axe-wielding wingman, crowd-controller and recruiter of the dead, mate of Viggo Mortensen, rescuer of henry Jones from the Nazis in the tank and all-round top bloke, Gimli has the hardest job out of everyone in the fellowship due to his deceptively small stature and heavy armour. If you think sprinting to Mordor is an arsehole of a job on its own, try doing it with itchy facial hair and carrying the contents of the royal garden shed on your back.​

EDIT: Looks like the people have spoken. Samwise is in the poll, but no Frodo because Frodo is a twat.

 

[kris40k]

I find your lack of Samwise disturbing.

Seriously, he resisted the lure of the ring, and actually protected the ring bearer throughout the entirety of the quest, and stuck by his friend till the very end to save him and the world.

 

[Thaluikhain]

For me, Boromir. In that he was the one I found most relatable, he had the most character. He was flawed in a way the others weren't. In the movies at least, Gimli has that "I'd never hear the end of it" bit, which helped, but that's the only time that really happened.

For most of the time, the Fellowship are boring heroes running around being heroic at people. Boromir came across as more of a person as well.

 

[Barbas]

I find your lack of Samwise disturbing.

Seriously, he resisted the lure of the ring, and actually protected the ring bearer throughout the entirety of the quest, and stuck by his friend till the very end to save him and the world.

If I put him in, I'd have to put Frodo in. And come on, man - Andy Serkis!

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

Legolas, because they're taking the hobbits to isengard.

 

[flying_whimsy]

I find your lack of Samwise disturbing.

Seriously, he resisted the lure of the ring, and actually protected the ring bearer throughout the entirety of the quest, and stuck by his friend till the very end to save him and the world.

He didn't just resist the lure of the ring: he's one of the only (I think officially the count is at two for the movies and three for the books) characters to ever possess it for any duration of time and still willingly parted with it.

My vote goes for Sam as well (and Smeagol wasn't even part of the fellowship). If he'd been the ring bearer in the first place I suspect the quest would have fared much better overall. Seriously, next to him Frodo is just worthless as a character.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Spoiler: Gandalf.

Why?

Fuck you, that's why.

Gandalf is a stone-cold OG who does not give a fuck. Get imprisoned at the top of a giant tower?


He just jumps off.

Fighting an age-old being made out of fire?


************ takes him to hell.

The Wilhelm clan is bothered by Nazgul?


Takes them out with a flashlight.

And he still has time to light some grass and chill with his hobbit brothers like Carl Sagan.


Then, then he time travels into the future and gains the power of magnetism.


He's like the Brian Blessed of Ian McKellens.

 

[Scarim Coral]

That would be Aragon for me-

He choose to helped the Hobbits when he didn't really needed to get involved at the bar (well ok maybe he did once he saw Frodo accidently putting on the ring).

Unlike Boromir, he never once try to betray Frodo and stuck by him through and through until Frodo left them.

Even at the abanddom of the Fellowship, he still carry on by saving Merry and Pippin when he could of called it a day.

He saved the day well night when the hobbit when at the top of the ruin and with the raiders closing in and he did it in a badass way by sticking a sword in one of their faces!

He has healing powers when he heal that Rohan princess (I forgot her name)!

He made the ghost king his *****.

As far as I know he is the only human to had a working relationship with an Elf princess (no the whole dwarf and elf relationship is not cannon in the book and even then their relationship was tack on bluetack at best).

 

[Thaluikhain]

He saved the day well night when the hobbit when at the top of the ruin and with the raiders closing in and he did it in a badass way by sticking a sword in one of their faces!

He has healing powers when he heal that Rohan princess (I forgot her name)!

Bit off topic, but Eowyn was only injured because she fought the Witch King, about whom they said no man can kill, and she isn't a man.

Aragorn beat him, and four of his hardest mates all by himself. Now, didn't kill him, cause he ran away, but still. You'd think this would be brought up when discussing how hard he is to kill, especially in the presence of Pippin who witnessed it all.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Spoiler: Gandalf.

Why?

Fuck you, that's why.

Gandalf is a stone-cold OG who does not give a fuck. Get imprisoned at the top of a giant tower?


He just jumps off.

Fighting an age-old being made out of fire?


************ takes him to hell.

The Wilhelm clan is bothered by Nazgul?


Takes them out with a flashlight.

And he still has time to light some grass and chill with his hobbit brothers like Carl Sagan.


Then, then he time travels into the future and gains the power of magnetism.


He's like the Brian Blessed of Ian McKellens.

Can that just be the official list of his deeds from now on? Especially the flashlight part.

These are only the cliffnotes, as evidenced by Samuel L Jackson, Gandalf's long lost brother from another mother:

 

[FPLOON]

Pippen... because he's got the best singing voice of them all!

Other than that, Smeagol gets an honorable mention for being his own damn therapist...

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Spoiler: Sorry what?

How is this even a question? Yeah, Boromir is pretty badass, but he's not dueling-a-firey-demon-for-two-days-and-nights-on-a-mountaintop badass.

 

[madwarper]

The Poll is missing the most badass of all.

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Bill

He was the baddest of all the asses. He was so bad of an ass, he wasn't even an ass. He was a Pony.

And, he was the only one with enough sense to not go into Moria.

 

[Silvanus]

Gandalf is in another damn league.


Of the others, Aragorn is probably the most badass warrior, but he's also relatively uninteresting. Sam, Gimli and Boromir were more enjoyable characters than he was.

 

[Fox12]

Are... are you kidding? There can be only one.

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Samwise Gamgee

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