favourite character

[allanon]

Who is your favourite character?My is the mighty and misterious Druid Allanon from the
"Shannara"series of Terry Brooks.I like also
Bilbo Baggins from "The Hobbit" and Tomas from the Riftwar saga.My favourite bad character is Ba'alzamon.

[shadowfire]

Cormac mac art
Conan
King Kull
Earl Dumarest
Kendric (From Carole Nelson Douglas's series
following on from "Six of Swords")
Tanaka Khan
Aldric (From Peter Morwoods "Horse Lord")
To name a few

[FitzChivalry]

Corwin of Amber
Matrim Cauthon
Gerald Tarrant
Elric of Melnibone, Corum
Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Bran Stark
Raistlin Majere, Tasslehof Barefoot, Tanis Half-Elven, Sturm Brightblade, Fizban, Flint Fireforge
Jimmy the Hand
Croaker, Goblin, Raven, One-Eye, Silent, Otto
Drizzt Do'urden
Gandalf
Rhoedry Maelwood
Haplo and the dog
Morgon of Hed
FitzChivalry


to name a few, you posed a too hard question.

btw, i noticed that most of the names are male, i'm a sexist pig and i didn't even know it. damn.

[ethanx]

Corum -Moorcock
Jamie Lannister -Martin
Thomas Covenant -Donaldson
Haplo and the Dog -Weis/Hickman
Jon Snow -Martin
Artemis Entreri -Salvatore
Sandor Clegane -Martin
Nathan Rahl -Goodkind
Daenerys Stormborn -Martin
Matrim Cauthon (Oh wait, Jordan in his rambling, forgot there was such a charcter, so scratch him)
Raistlin -Weis/Hickman

I think that covers most, probably forgot a few though.

[Pluvious]

Tyrion, Daerenys, Arya, Barristan the Bold, the brothers Clegeane, Bronn, Jaime, and Brienne-George Martin
Pug and Tomas-Feist
Raj Athen-David Farland's Runelords
Druss the legend-Grimmel
Haplo and Caramon-Weiss and Hickman
Colbey-last of the Renshai by Reichart

[FitzChivalry]

In the Renshai i didn't really like Colbey... he was too arrogant for me. I liked Rache though, the one who couldn't use his legs and still was the 2nd best swordsman in the world.

[Rob B]

A few that come to mind immediately:
Flagg/Randall Flagg-Dark Tower and many other Stephen King books
Lord Perrin Aybarra the Wolfbrother & Mat from WOT
Chade and FitzChivalry Farseer (Farseer/Assassin series)
Ned Stark and Tyrion Lannister (GRRM)
Vlad Taltos (Steven Brust)
Simon and Binnabik (Memory Sorrow & Thorn T. Williams)

[drakon]

Roland-gunslinger(dark tower)
Nathan Brazil (Midnight at the Well of Souls)
Perrin(wot)
Corwin (amber)
one of Corwins brothers, forgot his name (the one who lost an arm in battle...)
Sam (LOTR)
and also eventhough his not the hero i really loved Smeagol as a character, i think his a tragic figure the payed dearly for a mistake it did in the past but eventually it's action save the world.

[mybeaker]

Zed - Sword of Truth Series
Jaxom - Anne McCaffrey Pern series
Abernathy - Terry Brooks Landover series

Just to name three. I can't help but love them all *sigh*

[FitzChivalry]

Dracon, i think his name was Benedict.

[Eventine]

Sparrowhawk, Earthsea series.
Pitchwife, Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
Hugh the Hand - Deathgate series
Arithon - Wars of light and shadow

[Macros]

Feist's books:

Pug, Tomas, Macros (could you guess), Jimmy the Hand, Arutha, Martin, Erik von Darkmoor, Miranda, Nakor.... too many to name so I'll quit here.

Empire Books:

Hokanu, Kamatsu, Arakasi, Kevin, and Chumaka

Fionavar Tapestry:

Diarmuid, Torc, Levon, Kimberly, Paul and Arthur

David Gemmel:

Waylander and Druss

David Eddings:

Belgarion, Belgarath, Polgara, and Silk

Other characters I liked:

Conan, Seoman Snowlock, Miriamele, Zedd, Most of the characters in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series although its been so long that I've forgotten their names. Add the characters from the Chronicles of Narnia to that too.

[shadowfire]

Nice to see sparrowhawk's name popping up and what about saltheart foamfollower

[Eventine]

Saltheart was good, but I liked Bannor a bit more in the first chronicles.
Which I am rereading at the moment - I'd forgotten how painful Thomas Covenant could be to others.

Oh Yeah - Add Traithe in the wars of light and shadow to my list, and even though it is sf, Duncan Idaho from Dune is my favourite character ever.

[shadowfire]

Yes on Duncan but felt sorry for him in God emperor when he felt out of date