Today I finally get to introduce the exciting thing I’ve been hinting at from time to time, that “Fantasy Oscars” sort of thing for beloved works of Fantasy, which I’m super excited to be a part of!
As you may or may not know… *cough* because I’m sure it’s not obvious or anything *cough* Fantasy is my favorite genre, and what better thing to discuss in fantasy than the awesome characters (and, in some cases, items) who inhabit it!
So that’s what these fantasy awards are for — highlighting our favorite inhabitants of fantasy books we love, in honored awards of various categories.
This is going to be awesome, guys! It’s just for fun so I hope you’ll all have a blast with it! 🙂 I know I’m going to. ^_^
The basic idea is:
- Fan-voted fantasy awards (this means you!)
- 10 categories (like “Most Epic Hero”, “Best Fantasy Mount” etc. …Full list below.)
- 10 bloggers are hosting these
- You nominate characters etc. by commenting on the 10 posts (or seconding others’ nominations)
- The nomination phase will last 2 weeks (so you have until July 1st for this one)
- Later there will be another round, voting from the top-picked characters — we’ll let everyone know when that voting starts
- The characters etc. who win with the most votes will have their award “presented” to them on the blogs by characters from The Lord of the Rings who are the standard for those categories
- It will be fun!
- It is not as complicated as it sounds! XD
Read on for further details; and the award I’m hosting is at the end of the post. 🙂
Welcome to the first ever Silmarillion Awards!
The Silmarillion Awards have been created by DJ Edwardson and Jenelle Schmidt as a way to honor J.R.R. Tolkien as the Father of Modern Fantasy, open up a discussion about some of our other favorite fantasy works, and to have a ton of fun this summer.
When we started thinking about creating a sort of “Fantasy Oscars,” we found it difficult to fathom any award that wouldn’t be won by a character or item from The Lord of the Rings… so, to make things a bit more interesting, we decided to call them “The Silmarillion Awards” and have characters from LOTR and The Hobbit present the awards as examples of the ultimate standard for each award. Hopefully that will even the playing field a bit.
Joining our team are eight other bloggers and authors who will each be hosting one of these awards, called Silmarils, on their blogs towards the end of July.
But before we get there, we need YOUR help! Starting today, June 20th and proceeding through July 1st, the nomination period for each award will be open. Please visit the participating bloggers (found in the list below), read the descriptions of the awards, and make your nominations!
Nominate characters in the comments of each blog post. If someone has already nominated the character you would have nominated, you may either second that nomination, open a new nomination, or do both. We will be picking the 5 characters with the most “seconds” for the final voting period that will take place between July 4th – July 13th, so you may also “third,” “fourth,” “fifth,” etc. any nominations you particularly like.
Fine print:
- Please do not nominate anything from one of your OWN books!
- You may nominate as many characters as you wish, AND you may also second (or third/fourth/etc.) a character someone else has nominated… but please only “vote” for each character once. (i.e. You cannot nominate a character and then also second that same character.)
- Please share about the Silmarillion Awards on social media to spread the excitement far and wide across Middle-earth. Use the hashtag: #SilmAwards2016 wherever possible!
- Don’t nominate a Tolkien character for the awards, as the characters presenting the awards are already the standard for each award
- Don’t stress if a character you nominate doesn’t win this year. We are hoping to make this an annual tradition, and these awards are LIFETIME AWARDS, meaning that they cannot be won by the same character more than once!
Official Schedule:
- Phase 1 – June 20 – July 1: Award nominations open
- Phase 2 – July 4: the final nominees will be announced and voting will open and last through July 14th
- Phase 3 – July 16-28: Presentation of the awards, 1 per day; each award will be hosted on a different blog each day
- Phase 4 – Celebration! July 29th was the official publication date of the Lord of the Rings back in 1954. We invite you all to celebrate with us the 62nd birthday of this masterpiece of Fantasy Fiction. Congratulate the winners, take and post a photo of yourselves with LOTR paraphernalia, write a blog post about your favorite LOTR moment, scene, character, quote, or memory… get creative and have fun!
List of Participating Blogs:
- DJ Edwardson Hosting the Best Friend Silmaril
- Jenelle Schmidt Hosting the Most Heart Wrenching Death Scene Silmaril
- Deborah O’Carroll Hosting the Strangest Character Silmaril {You are HERE. ;)}
- Abbey Hosting the Most Nefarious Villain Silmaril
- JL Mbewe Hosting the Best Redemption Story Silmaril
- Tracey Hosting the Riddling and Poetry Silmaril
- Jack Lewis Baillot Hosting the Best Fantasy Mount Silmaril
- Madeline J. Rose Hosting the Most Epic Hero Silmaril
- Zachary Totah Hosting the Wisest Counsellor Silmaril
- E. Rawls Hosting the Best Fantasy Weapon Silmaril
So that’s the deal of what’s going on! 🙂
Award I’m Hosting: The Strangest Character Silmaril
I’ll be hosting the Strangest Character Silmaril Award here on my blog. Which means you get to start nominating characters for that award in the comments. 🙂
Below are the criteria for the sort of character who ought to be nominated for such an award. Keeping in mind that LOTR characters will be presenting these awards as the ultimate standard of Fantasy Fiction.
The Strangest Character Silmaril should go to a character who is quirky, eccentric, peculiar, or downright bizarre. This character doesn’t need to have a central role to the story, but should be memorable enough to generate discussions amongst audience members familiar with the story this character appears in.
This award will be presented by a unique, odd, and exuberant character from The Lord of the Rings, whose quirks include talking in rhyme and wearing yellow boots… (Just don’t expect to find him in any of the films! ;))
If you’ve read through all the details and still have a question about how it works or how to participate, ask away, or check in with DJ or Jenelle, and we’ll try to answer it. 🙂 (And remember that it’s all for fun! :D)
So, are you ready? Nominate your pick for “strangest character” in a fantasy book, in the comments below! 🙂 And don’t forget to check out the other posts!
EDIT: Nominations are closed — visit the voting post HERE to meet the top five nominees and vote for the next round! 🙂 Voting runs from July 4-14.
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I nominate Wit from anything Cosmere that Brandon Sanderson has written.
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Seconded!
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YES. YES. Seconded. It would be a shame if Wit didn’t win this award.
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Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle :D.
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Second Howl!
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Assuming I can second multiple people just as I can nominate multiple people . . . I second Howl as well!
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Yes, you can! 🙂
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Oh, good! Seeing as I just seconded a third person. xD
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Yes, Howl! I third Howl! 😀
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I fourth Howl! 😀
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I fifth Howl!
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SIXTH HOWL. Without a doubt.
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I definitely seventh Howl. He’s got alllll the awesomeness, but he is….unique, I guess you could say. 😉
-Ariel
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I give in. I eighth Howl! I wasn’t going to because he’s more awesome than strange, but upon reconsidering things like his vanity and his habit of spending hours in the bathroom getting ready every morning… Okay, yes, he’s pretty strange too XD
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I agree, he’s totally more awesome than strange; but yes, he is pretty strange. XD
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Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series.
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I second Luna Lovegood!
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I third Luna!
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I fourth Luna!
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I fifth Luna!
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I sixth Luna!
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I seventh Luna! 😀
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I eighth Luna!
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I KNOW WHO THE CHARACTER PRESENTING THE AWARD IS!!!! 😀 😀 😀 One of my faves! I was sad he wasn’t in the movies.
I nominate Fezzik from The Princess Bride by William Goldman and Lucinda from Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. 😀
Also, J.L. Mbewe’s post won’t let me comment on it, so is it possible for me to comment on this post to nominate one for that award? I have an awesome nomination for that one, but it won’t let me comment.
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Haha, awesome — I like that character too. 😉
Hmm… that’s weird. It’s a wordpress site so you should be able to! o.o Let me check on that and I’ll let you know! (Don’t forget your nomination! XD)
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Yuppers! 😉
That’s what I thought. Some weird error. And there’s no way I’m forgetting my nominee. Poor Jace…
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Hey! Okay, so apparently she was having trouble with comments on her site and it wouldn’t even let HER comment… but it SEEMS to be fixed, so why don’t you pop back over there and try posting again? 🙂 If it doesn’t work, go ahead and do it here and I’ll get it to someone or repost it over there or something. 😀
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Awesome, thank you! 😀
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It should be working now! I am so sorry. I don’t know why it wasn’t working before. Let me know if you have any trouble!
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Thank you!!! 🙂
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My post isn’t showing up on the Best Fantasy Weapon page. Am I doing something wrong?
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Hmm… that’s odd… You might just try posting it again — hopefully it will work this time — or if you tell me what you’d like to say I could post it over there under your name? Sorry about that! Let me know if you can’t get it figured out and I will also ask the site owner about it in case it just went in spam or something. 🙂
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I did try several times… well, I guess I’ll just try tomorrow…
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Okay, well someone else wasn’t having their comment show up either, so it may just be that the blog owner has to approve the comment if you’ve not commented on the site before. That’s what I’m guessing at this point… We’ll see what happens tomorrow. 🙂 After all there are a couple weeks… Anyway, so sorry about that! Hopefully it’ll get sorted out!
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I tried again today and it still isn’t working…
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Other people are having trouble with it too… I just checked in again and am waiting to hear back about it. 🙂
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Okay, Esther! Your comment is now showing up on the weapons post! 🙂 There were a whole bunch of comments which needed to be approved apparently, and they’re all showing up now. Sooo sorry about that. Thanks for your patience and for voting! 🙂
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Thanks so much!
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I nominate Zifnab from The Death Gate Cycle!
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This was hard but I finally figured it out! I’m nominating Pete the Sockman from Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga. I love him so much!
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I second Peet!
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I second that second!
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I second it too!
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I second! I vehemently second!
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Yay! Huzzah for the fans of Pete and the Iggyfeathers!
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PEET ALL THE WAY. I love him so much and HE JUST NEED TO WIN. 😛
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Does this comment count as a “second”, then? 😉
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I third Peet!
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i love Peet with my whole heart. Seconded.
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PEET I SECOND
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I second Peet!
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Salazar from Paper Crowns because he’s the best, strangest little thing of ever. ❤
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I second Salazar!
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I third Salazar! 🙂
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I fourth Salazar!
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Salazar! He’s so presh. I’ll fifth him. ^_^
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Now that I know that The Lunar Chronicles count as fantasy, I have more nominees! For this one, Winter from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Literally crazy, but also so adorable at the same time, and she uses her craziness to her advantage.
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And I also second Winter. She’s awesome.
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Ooh, I third this one! Winter is sooo great! 🙂
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Yesss!
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And I second this as well.
Maybe I won’t actually nominate anyone and I’ll just second a variety of characters. xD Assuming I can do that.
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You can do both if you want. 🙂 Of course, if whoever you were going to nominate has already been mentioned, then yes. XD
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Heh, that works!
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I second poor Winter. I felt so bad for her…
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Right?
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I adore Winter! I second her also.
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I always think Gurgi, the beast-man from The Chronicles of Prydain certainly is not short in the strange department. I also love the way he rhymes everything “crunchings and munchings!”
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Seconding Gurgi!
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Third Gurgi! 🙂 (I almost wanted to nominate him for best friend… he’s rather loyal, but strange works too!)
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Fourth….its been a long time since I’ve read these. I’m surprised I even remember Gurgi!
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Fifth for Gurgi!
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I nominate Amos McElhenny from Orphan’s Song by Gillian Bronte Adams.
And Nidawi the Everblooming from Shadow Hand by Anne Elisabeth Stengl.
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I second Nidawi!
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I definitely third Nidawi!
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I fourth! She’s Everblooming Mad, after all.
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Fifth!
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I sixth Nidawi the Everblooming–she was the first and strangest character I thought of!
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I fifth Nidawi!
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or seventh….whatever 🙂
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I have been waiting very eagerly to put in this nomination: WIZARD FENWORTH FROM DONITA K. PAUL’S DRAGONKEEPER CHRONICLES. Ahem, I had to shout, because Wizard Fenworth is one of my favorite characters ever. For real ever.
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Ah you beat me to it! I second Fenworth!
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FENWORTH!!!! OH MY GOODNESS FENWORTH!!! I had forgotten him! *facepalm* and I was only broken up about his death for a YEAR *facepalm again* I third!
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Fenworth is AMAZING and deserves to be shouted over! Fourth!
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I nominate Puddleglum from The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis
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Seconding Puddleglum!
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Thirding Puddleglum!
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Fourthing Puddleglum!
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Fifthing Puddleglum!
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Sixthing…one of my favorite characters ever!
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PUDDLEGLUM! YES! I sixth!
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I eighth Puddleglum!
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Sorry–it looks like someone already eighthed Puddleglum. Anyway, I “second” Puddleglum.
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Don’t worry, we’ll just count ’em up at the end, so it doesn’t matter what number you say, really. 😉
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I second…or ninth…or tenth Puddleglum.
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I’m adding just a plain old vanilla “second” so that this doesn’t get too out of hand.
Love Puddleglum! …Though he’ll like lose, I shouldn’t wonder.
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He’ll likely lose, I shouldn’t wonder… THAT IS THE BEST! XD Laughing so hard…
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Me too with the laughing!
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LOL
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I laughed so hard. XD
I second Puddleglum!
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Second Puddleglum!
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7thing Puddleglum!
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Second
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I’ll second Puddleglum as well. You’ve gotta love him. ^_^
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Puddleglum was the first character I thought of for this – and I love him! I second for Puddleglum! 🙂
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I also second puddleglum!
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I second Puddleglum too! (Hmmm…he seems to be one of the most popular choices so far…)
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I whatever-number-it-is Puddleglum! xD
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Puddleglum! Second!
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I second puddleglum!
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YES! I second Puddleglum! ^_^
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I second Puddleglum!
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Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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I second Calcifer!
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May all my bacon burn if I don’t second Calcifer too. 😀 (I second him. ;))
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ooh, thirding Calcifer! Love him so much!
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Fourthing Calcifer! He’s definitely strange.
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Calcifer, yes! Fifth.
(And I think I just seconded every single person nominated here. o.o I have this HUGE obsession with quirky characters. I can’t help it!)
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Haha, I love that! XD Quirky characters are the best, and yes, you seem to have a thing for them. 😀 Awesome!
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Sixthing our dear, grouchy Calcifer!
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Yes, I second Calcifer too!
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I nominate Bridger from Realmwalkers. He was a scream.
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I nominate Lightsong, from Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson.
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Ohhey another Sanderson charrie. I’ll second that. =D
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Also, if anyone’s been waiting for the place to nominate your favorite Fantasy Mount, that post is now up so gallop on over there! 🙂 http://www.jacklewisbaillot.com/2016/06/stop-planet-i-want-to-get-off.html
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Thank you, friend! 😀
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Haha, you’re welcome! ^_^
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Oh my goodness! So many great characters! I’m just going to second a few people in this comment so that I don’t have to do several comments…
I second Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle and Puddleglum.
I would also like to nominate Kiernan Kane from the Minstrel’s Song series by Jenelle Schmidt. I’ve only read the first two books and Kiernan is pretty peculiar in them! Maybe he gets less so in the third book, but, I haven’t read it yet.
P.S. I love your description of your host!
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That works! 🙂
Ooh, yes, Kiernan Kane! I was thinking Poetry and Riddling for him buuut… I second him here as well! 😀 (Honestly, he’d be great for most things… :P)
And thanks so much! 🙂
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I nominate Angela from the Inheritance Cycle.
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I second Angela and Lady Peg! I love them both so much!
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I second Angela! 🙂
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I second Angela.
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I nominate Lady Peg from the Valley of the Dragons trilogy by Donita K. Paul.
(I feel like I could nominate ALL of Donita K. Paul’s characters for this award. She writes the most bizarre, lovable characters!)
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OH. And I also want to nominate the Mad Hatter from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Because, hello? he’s the Mad Hatter!
I’ll also go ahead and nominate Alice herself.
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I second the Mad Hatter!
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I second the Mad Hatter as well!
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I fourth the Mad Hatter!
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I second Lady Peg and the Mad Hatter! I remember a conversation with Lady Peg wherein she confuses the meaning of “retire.” XD And another when she talks about eggs being scrambled, not brains.
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Duh, OF COURSE I second the Mad Hatter! Definitely strange, that one. ;D
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If we’re allowing fantasy comics and graphic novels as well as fantasy books, I nominate the title character from “Axe Cop”
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I also nominate the Owl from M.R. James’ short story, “After Dark in the Playing Fields.” Never before (or possibly since) has a character been able to make such a bizarre, memorable impression in such a short amount of space as this unlucky feathered fellow.
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I nominate Angela from “Eragon,” even though the books weren’t my favorite, she was definitely quirky.
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I second Angela! She was strange.
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I also second Puddleglum <3. Definitely one of two VERY favourite people from Narnia!
I also nominate Arachne from ND Wilson's ASHTOWN BURIALS. Not so much eccentric as very unusual, Arachne is an aloof, dignified immortal who loooooooooves spiders. She has a really interesting blend of creepiness and awesome. Love her!
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I nominate Mother Mungry, Shadwick, and Elder Cadwick from the Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson.
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i second Mother Mungry and Cadwick! Yes yes!
Shadwick—do you mean Shimrad, the one who loves fence posts?
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I second all of these not-as-well-known but lovable Wingfeather characters!
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Another nomination: The Sha-Una from The Budge-Nuzzard! That hairiest of allies! Hope reborn of tangled hair and great and loping gait! Never did a Weem lope so.
(Click my name on this comment to meet this most parsupplimous of persons.)
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Oh, that link didn’t work. Here:
http://budgenuzzard.blogspot.com/2006/01/leapers-wee.html
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I nominate Brierly Steward from Sarah E. Morin’s “Waking Beauty”
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Heh, this has got to be the first category where I’m not going to be seconding anyone. 😛 But I do have some people to nominate! They are:
-Mulch Diggums from the Artemis Fowl series (if you’ve read it, you know why he’s so strange)
-Abbadon (is that how you spell his name?) from the Dragons in Our Midst, Oracles of Fire, and Children of the Bard series (I’m not sure if he appears in two of the series or all three…) by Bryan Davis (he uses alliteration quite frequently)
-Dame Primus from The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix (she’s a real oddity, that one)
-Steven/Nevets from the Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda (Steven’s the normal one, and when he’s threatened, his brother–Nevets–appears… but I don’t remember if they’re actually the same person)
But perhaps the quirkiest character I’ve ever read about is Ferrin from the Beyonders trilogy by Brandon Mull. He’s from a group of people called displacers, who can take themselves apart and still live. There was one scene in the book where, in order to escape from prison, Ferrin detached one of his hands and threw it at the key ring on the wall to get the keys.
I feel like I’m forgetting a character… oh well. XD
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(Mulch is definitely strange. XD Not sure if I’ve read any of the other characters… I must be behind! :P)
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I second Abaddon! I adore that alliterative antagonist. (He’s not always an antagonist, but come on, I needed an A word.)
And I suppose I’ll second Mulch Diggums as well. Not that I like him, but he is most definitely a strange one. 😛
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Yes, Mulch is EXTREMELY strange. XD You haven’t?! You really should read those series by Bryan Davis, The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix, and the Beyonders trilogy by Brandon Mull. 😀
I’m also nominating Doctor Scamandros from The Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. He’s a sorcerer (anything magical in the series is called sorcerous) who has tattoos all over his head that change and move depending on his mood, or whatever.
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Yes, I do need to… 😀 (Whoa, that’s super strange. o.o I have the first Keys to the Kingdom book! Just need to read it.)
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I nominate Tomas from Lady Moon (by Rachel Starr Thomson)! Not sure if anyone has heard of this character, but he is definitely strange/quirky/awesome.
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I my word, I just looked up Lady Moon and promptly added it to my To-Read/Wishlist. O___O I NEED TO READ THIS BOOK EVIDENTLY.
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I nominate Fred from The Dark Sea Annals (by Wayne Thomas Batson)! He’s the only talking sword with which I’m familiar, and he’s rather odd. XD
Also, does Peter Pan count as fantasy? Because if so, I wholeheartedly nominate Peter Pan himself, the slightly conceited boy who never wishes to grow up.
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Peter Pan totally counts as fantasy! 🙂 I second him. ^_^
(Also wow, there’s a talking sword named Fred? This I must learn about. o.o I’ve only read one WTB which is sad and shall be remedied…)
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I second Peter Pan and Fred! (Deborah, you’ve only read one WTB? For some reason I thought you’d read most of them! o.o XD)
I would also like to nominate the cat lady from Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. *shivers*
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I read Isle of Swords (years ago, and LOVED it) and own the third, but haven’t gotten my hands on the second one in the series, sadly… I also own books 1 and 3 of the Door Within series, and also Dreamtreaders. But I’ve only read Isle of Swords so far. I know, it’s sad… *cough*
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ISLE OF SWORDS, YESH. You own the third…? I thought that was just an ebook thing, and I can’t even remember if it’s out yet. 😛
*piles all the WTB books on you* The Door Within was one of my first “teen” fantasy series. All the fond memories…
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Own, as in I downloaded the ebook and it’s waiting on my Kindle app until I can find the second book and read it first. XD
I’ve heard good things! 🙂
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Ahhhh, gotcha. XD
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I nominate Snufkin from the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. He’s extremely strange but also awesome and I love him to bits. 🙂
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Puddleglum and Calcifer get my votes. I couldn’t decide, strangeness resonates so deeply with me!
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I second Peter Pan! Yes, please and thank you. 😀
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