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Favorite character in Fantasy literature?

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Wuthering_Heights said:
Severian from Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun:

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Wow, and did not expect to see this on here, excellent choice.
 
Victarion Greyjoy and Arya Stark of Asoiaf.
Kaladin of Way of Kings (Stormlight Chronicles).

and

Severus motherfucking Snape
 
Sam Gamgee in LOTR, Luna Lovegood and McGonagall in HP, possibly Blaine the Mono and Oy from the Dark Tower, though I love almost everyone in that series as they all get a chance to shine.

I remember liking Tyrion in Game of Thrones/ASOIAF and Logain (I think?) in Wheel of Time, but it's been a long time since I've read any of those books, and I only read the first couple in each series.
 
For hard to pronounce names Drizzt and Kvothe come to mind.

The best name goes to Anomander Rake.

The best characters in fantasy are Fafrd and the Grey Mouser. I'm surprised this duo doesn't get nearly as much love s it deserves on GAF. If those books came out today it would cause a revolution.

The worst character is anything written by Brent Weeks.
 
Geralt von Riva and his sidekick uhhh i forget his name.. the bard guy. in the games he's pretty cool but in the books he's such a snide asshole (with a heart of gold ofc) i love it.
 
Switters said:
The best characters in fantasy are Fafrd and the Grey Mouser. I'm surprised this duo doesn't get nearly as much love s it deserves on GAF. If those books came out today it would cause a revolution.
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Have you read the comic adaptation by Chaykin and Mignola? It's really good.
 
A lot already mentioned here, but just want to add in a lot of Tamora Pierce's characters.

Alanna and Kel were my heroes growing up.
 
Switters said:
The worst character is anything written by Brent Weeks.
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I got sick of Kylar a few chapters into the second book and gave the books to goodwill. You're wrong however, Patrick Rothfuss is by far the worst. at writing good characters.
 
Steerpike in the Gormenghast books. So evil and so smart.

Alfred Montbank from the Death Gate Cycle is a great character as well.
 
Tyrion Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Caine Black Knife/Harri Michaelson (The Acts of Caine)

That'd probably be my top 2 off the top of my head. There's probably others I loved equally if not more but the memory fades the longer I go without reading the books again.

Pretty much every character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie is brilliantly written. If I had to choose one I loved the most though it would be Glokta.
 
Harry Dresden is by far my favorite.
Others:
Raistlin Majere
Tyrion Lannister
Sparhawk from the Elenium
The Lioness from Temora Pierce
Zed from the first couple Sword of Truth books

...having a hard time mentally sifting through all the books I read so I might update with more.
 
Tamanon said:
That'd actually probably be my choice. Don't read too much Fantasy, but he was a pretty damn good character through the first couple trilogies. After that, kinda got strung along, but c'est la vie.
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He was
a beaten and humbled man by that time. failing at becoming a god can do that to you.
 
Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings. Separate to that he has his own poem. He is the most powerful side character ever, in my opinion.
 
Sam Gamgee, Jean Tannen, the 'bro/sidekick' type characters who kick ass in their own way.

I think a part of it is because I can never see myself in a leading role, and they're the types I empathize with.
 
Granted, he's probably one of the few characters in Tolkien's lore who are actually an example of good character development as opposed to cardboard one dimensional stereotypes like Aragorn or Gandalf, but I'll be fucking damned if Gollum isn't the best and also the single most important character to have ever been created in the entire genre of fantasy writing. What a masterpiece of a character.
 
Fjordson said:
I've seen those before, but I don't think they're the classic ones everyone loves. Are they? I've seen some reviews on there mention that, but I could be wrong here.

Basically, I'd love to read the series that starts with this book.
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They are the classic stories but I believe they're collected by publication date instead of chronological order. They're quite well done and have extras like Moorcock essays and old magazine covers.

I'd definitely recommend them.
 
Peter Bazooka said:
They are the classic stories but I believe they're collected by publication date instead of chronological order. They're quite well done and have extras like Moorcock essays and old magazine covers.

I'd definitely recommend them.
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Oh damn, alright thanks for the tip, I got a little confused with all of the different collections and whatnot.
 
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