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Sinking realisation that struck me at lunch
I've just started playing Finrod Felagund, one of the more fascinating background characters in the Silmarillion, in an RPG called New Menegroth. It's MSN-based but there's an LJ community for it here and most of the characters to date have LJ's of their own... anyway. Here's the realisation:
Finrod is intelligent (he learns languages just by listening to them being spoken, because he can pick up the meaning of words from the speaker's mind), outgoing (he was on a hunting trip when he overheard human voices for the first time and went over and made friends with them despite never having seen their species), fond of humans (made friends with them, sang for them, taught them Sindarin, got them homes, accepted some into his service), fiercely loyal (he left Aman only because he felt family ought to stick together, and Feanor was his uncle, not to mention that he left his kingdom to help Beren in the quest for the Silmaril because he felt duty-bound to the descendants of his former vassal), protective (despite being chained himself he fought Sauron's werewolf with his bare hands to keep it from killing Beren), and blond (his grand-mum was Indis of the Vanyar, who passed on golden-hair genes to her descendants, particularly Finrod's sister Galadriel).
He's a yellow bloody Labrador retriever.
(ETA: Oh, and he gets mopey when he can't be with his particular people, either. His beloved Amarie didn't come with him into Middle-earth, so he never married and claimed to have a foresight flash of a grim fate that kept him from turning to someone else. Right, honey. We all know you were secretly hoping that if you lay on the rug and stared at the door long enough, she'd come walking through. And jeez! One of his names was Friend-of-Men! That's barely a step removed from Man's-Best-Friend...)
Finrod is intelligent (he learns languages just by listening to them being spoken, because he can pick up the meaning of words from the speaker's mind), outgoing (he was on a hunting trip when he overheard human voices for the first time and went over and made friends with them despite never having seen their species), fond of humans (made friends with them, sang for them, taught them Sindarin, got them homes, accepted some into his service), fiercely loyal (he left Aman only because he felt family ought to stick together, and Feanor was his uncle, not to mention that he left his kingdom to help Beren in the quest for the Silmaril because he felt duty-bound to the descendants of his former vassal), protective (despite being chained himself he fought Sauron's werewolf with his bare hands to keep it from killing Beren), and blond (his grand-mum was Indis of the Vanyar, who passed on golden-hair genes to her descendants, particularly Finrod's sister Galadriel).
He's a yellow bloody Labrador retriever.
(ETA: Oh, and he gets mopey when he can't be with his particular people, either. His beloved Amarie didn't come with him into Middle-earth, so he never married and claimed to have a foresight flash of a grim fate that kept him from turning to someone else. Right, honey. We all know you were secretly hoping that if you lay on the rug and stared at the door long enough, she'd come walking through. And jeez! One of his names was Friend-of-Men! That's barely a step removed from Man's-Best-Friend...)
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Ahem.
Having had a yellow lab, I agree with all of your evidence. And he had a pretty wide vocabulary. As well as selective hearing. ;)
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I have a black lab named Bear who is my service dog. Though he may not hear me tell him something when he's sitting right beside my wheelchair, pop a bag of popcorn into the microwave and he hears the first kernal pop from ANYWHERE on the property, then promptly plops in front of the micro till it's popcorn time.
~Mark