Apart from the Lulu-as-Scary-Galadriel conceit, I generally keep my old and deep-seated LOTR fandom separate from my FF fanwork.
However, this particular stretch of the story is batting around a few Tolkienian motifs like a catnip mouse.
So I can't resist batting around a few analogies, even though they don't always map with very close matches.
Lucil - Elrond
Auron - Gandalf
Isaaru - Frodo
Pacce - Pippin
Nooj - Aragorn
Baralai - Boromir
Paine - Glorfindel
Shelinda - Galdor of the Havens
Cid - Gimli
Rikku - Legolas
Elma - Sam
I flipflopped Nooj and Baralai back and forth for a while: each has certain elements of both characters. (But Isaaru is really, in my mind, Tolkien!Faramir.)
Ack. Does this make Lulu Gollum?!
The chapter is nearly all dialog right now. Alas, I didn't get as far as I'd hoped this weekend.
However, this particular stretch of the story is batting around a few Tolkienian motifs like a catnip mouse.
So I can't resist batting around a few analogies, even though they don't always map with very close matches.
Lucil - Elrond
Auron - Gandalf
Isaaru - Frodo
Pacce - Pippin
Nooj - Aragorn
Baralai - Boromir
Paine - Glorfindel
Shelinda - Galdor of the Havens
Cid - Gimli
Rikku - Legolas
Elma - Sam
I flipflopped Nooj and Baralai back and forth for a while: each has certain elements of both characters. (But Isaaru is really, in my mind, Tolkien!Faramir.)
Ack. Does this make Lulu Gollum?!
The chapter is nearly all dialog right now. Alas, I didn't get as far as I'd hoped this weekend.
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Never thought of Paine being Glorfindel... hmmmm
Then again, Glorfindel's too golden for Paine. She's herself. This is the problem with analogies.
A lot of them I matched not so much for their personality as for their dramatic function in the story.
Edited at 2009-09-28 06:42 pm (UTC)
Actually, Lulu occupies a rather ambiguous position right now. Due to her being Sin, she's Sauron, sad to say. Or, Yevon is Sauron, but she's stuck with him anyway. But, also, and this is really ironic, she really *IS* Galadriel too... :O
If anyone was Gollum, it might've been Shuyin... Maybe...
On an unrelated note, you've made me dust off my PS2, and play FFX again. Thank you...
Vandevere
And now I have this image of Lulu on her knees, clutching a hairpin to her chest, giggling and muttering, "Tricksy summoners. Yes, Precious, tricksy indeed."
I don't think I've laughed so hard in weeks.