[manticore]

So who(which) is your favourite fantasy monster?

[allanon]

None of them, infact.
It's the Reaper from "The Elfstones of Shannara".

[Elan Morin Tedronai]

Yup, none of them as Allanon said. My favourite is the Gholam from Jordan's WoT. ;)

[Erebus]

Well, I guess I'm an old traditionalist, but I went for the Balrog. :)

[manticore]

sorry, havent come across the gholam. is it a ripoff on gollum or is it some slave of some kind? (ghulam being the arabic/hindi word for slave)

[Elan Morin Tedronai]

Don't think Jordan took it from Tolkien, I think it's from ghulam, because he (Jordan) know very much arabic, christian and jewish mythology.

[Bardos]

Gholam, huh?...

Hmmm...

Ghola, a clone from Herbert's Dune.


Hmmmmmmm. :)


The word is stolen, though the creatute isn't, from what I remember. (*G* Imagine that: Jordan used his imagination for once!.....?)

[manticore]

not to mention irish myth - aes sedai for aes sidhe, for example

[fluffy bunny]

where's the minatour?

[Kingslayer]

I went for Smaug because I love his conversation with Bilbo in the Hobbit.I also like giants, though you don't see many traditional fantasy monsters nowadays(except dragons,of course).