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Aragorn has spent days scrubbing the blood from Andúril. Though the blade gleams clean and bright in the sunlight, as if innocent of any bloodshed, Aragorn is still haunted by the memory of those tiny screams. Waily! WAILY! He shudders.
He and his opponent have been watching one another across the field of battle for some time now. He has the sense that this is an error, that the other man must be using the time to conjure a spell or deduce a weakness, but something makes him hesitate. Perhaps it’s the wizard’s manner: he has his eyes closed, as if meditating. He is taking this seriously, with due ceremony. Aragorn has no wish to deny a last ritual to a man who is about to die.
When the attack comes, it’s so sudden that Aragorn barely has time to leap from his horse as a gout of flame roars behind him. He turns, instinct guiding his arm, and throws his sword like a javelin, expertly hitting the mark where the other man is standing.
Except he isn’t a man, and he isn’t standing. In the air above the place where the wizard should have been flies a vast and terrible dragon.
Aragorn has just enough time to whisper his true love’s name before the dragon tears him open like an overripe fruit.
Predicted Winner: Ged
(Ged is a character from Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea series; Aragorn is a character from JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series.)
Lakesidey, nicely done – that is a very plausible way for Aragorn to win.
Come on. You think you going to stop Aragorn with a Dragon. Not going to happen. Aragorn eats dragons for breakfast. next.
EXACTLY!
Fanboys go home, damnit! Being familiar with both Ged *and* Aragorn, I’ve got to say that Ged is an obvious winner. There’s no way Aragorn can stand against Ged’s Naming – of anything. Ged can name Aragorn, the Sword… hell he can name the horse and make Aragorn go galloping in the opposite direction.
Also – did someone say that Aragorn eats dragons for breakfast? I’m sorry… what? Excuse me? Also – “Hero’s slay dragons. The End.” ? Firstly, “heroes” not “hero’s” (sorry, pet peeve). Secondly… GED IS A HERO. He’s also smarter than Aragorn.
I apologize to the fans but Aragorn is not the brightest crayon in the box. He’s not a complete idiot but compared to Ged? No. Sorry.
Someone said that they couldn’t vote for the less serious one and so they’re going for Ged… Good choice, person, good choice.
David’s post decided it for me
absolutly except not they’re up against the shrike they are up against arthur dent shrike,
i think you would need the hulk combined with superman combined with arthur dent to stand a chance, or Q he would have fun with this i think
Very nice story from lakesidey. I voted already for Ged, but the story actually would change my mind.
It’s not 100 percent realistic, that the “real” name of Aragorn would be Thorongil, but then again, if one thing is true for the whole Tolkien-universe: Every character has a lot of names. Crazy old language professor, that Tolkien was.
To use that funny little detail and twist it around to be the decisive part of the battle, is a very nice idea indeed!
Ah, but if you’re going by true names… who says the sword is Anduril? Why isn’t it still Narsil? If it’s name changed to Anduril… then how is that it’s true name? I haven’t read Earthsea for a while though, so I don’t remember.
OMG, Ged vs Gandalf would be AWESOME. Thus, Ged gets my vote here…
what if ged, knowing anduril’s name, asked the sword not to cut him?
i dont think anduril dosent knills for name wizards.
it has bean rebladed,so it holds lots of the narsils qualitys.
its like it holds two sauls…
its at least twice as hard to control anduril than anything else.like only the creator of a shade can unite with him,he cant control the unification of the sword.anduril-narsil is bond to its waver,which fills the space.
i dont think its even possible for ged to use two names at the same time…he only have one himself…
besides,magik of the middle earth is godly and dills with all the world.mostly you cant even sea it becaus it intervenes with the magitian. anduril can hold the power of the loyalty of the army of the dead.it can definatly beat one namer trying to get power over it.
ged can only name what he seas and cant create.
he can use fireballs,but then he must turn air into hydrogen to mantain it all the time-a preaty defecault thing.he must consntrate on many things.
aragorn only has to hide between the woods to hide,then surprise him to get clowser.
since ged is can onnly control his inviorment and summon,he has a problem at close range,wher massive earthquakes are not effective and hearts him to.
no magical barrier can stop abduril,its the swords nature.ged can only delay hes death using mud traps and spieky woods…
and its logical that aragorn has a small squad of knights with him wile hes traveling…
besides as i mentioned,magic in the middle earth is more rare and is engraved in the essence of things.aragorn knowes hw to fight magical beings.he have beaten most of the nazgul together!
it might not be seamed,but those craetures are as strong as small god,and like gandalf teou power isnt seen unless hes fighting a balrog there might is hidden.the power of temptaition,madnese and betrail…and he defeated them.
its true that like in middle earth,evil in eath sea is about fighting yourself to,but wile aragorn has to fight a wizard-he himself a warrior.ged dosent have to mach of combut expiriancr.
actualy as the sword of the kings of gondor it might even have the name of the kingdom or the ancestry…or the names of all the kings!
this sword belong o-n-l-y to the king of gondor!
clearly its one name isnt enough to gane power over it…
I concur, David. I expect there’d be a nice cup of rushwash tea and some plums from Ged’s orchard as well. Perhaps some lembas. No way those two would smite on each other.
Im disapointed of you,fellow fantasioneers.
for being blinded by the one and falling into the darkness.
for not seeing the logic tnd acting out of pure,unjust,destructive urge.
Well, the round is over and I’m a bit disappointed with the results. I kinda wanted to see what the writers would do with a Aragorn vs. Gandalf match. But both ended up losing, so it doesn’t really matter.