Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:15 pm
Fingolfin, Turin, and Feanor in Tolkiens Silmarillion.
Until we found out he survived / was redeemed, Saltheart Foamfollower was the epitome of tragi-cool.
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:47 pm
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:21 pm
The book and author escape me just now....! um, and the character 's name!
Something sci-fi about the shrike and the timetombs and stuff?
Anyway, the priest guy that gets the cruciform creature attached to him that makes him immortal but he's trapped in the forest that burns forever so for years he's burned alive while nailed to a tree as well i think, but the weird cruciform thing keeps bringing him back to life so he can burn to death again. as far as I remember, he's pretty cool about the whole nasty experience too.
Something sci-fi about the shrike and the timetombs and stuff?
Anyway, the priest guy that gets the cruciform creature attached to him that makes him immortal but he's trapped in the forest that burns forever so for years he's burned alive while nailed to a tree as well i think, but the weird cruciform thing keeps bringing him back to life so he can burn to death again. as far as I remember, he's pretty cool about the whole nasty experience too.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:04 pm
Don't have the book in front of me, but I believe that's Paul Dure from Dan Simmons' Hyperion.Stonemaybe wrote:The book and author escape me just now....! um, and the character 's name!
Something sci-fi about the shrike and the timetombs and stuff?
Anyway, the priest guy that gets the cruciform creature attached to him that makes him immortal but he's trapped in the forest that burns forever so for years he's burned alive while nailed to a tree as well i think, but the weird cruciform thing keeps bringing him back to life so he can burn to death again. as far as I remember, he's pretty cool about the whole nasty experience too.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:19 pm
That's the one!Don't have the book in front of me, but I believe that's Paul Dure from Dan Simmons' Hyperion.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:22 pm
I liked the Consul's tale the best, myself, in Hyperion.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:32 pm
Hyperion spoiler
Spoiler
even though he is killed and ressurrected numerous times, he's alive at the end of the series! 
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:47 am
Wow. . . You've mentioned Tolkien, and never even nominated poor Frodo! I think he gave up an awful lot in order to save the world. . . and in the end I don't know that he is truly ever rewarded. He gets to go to the Grey Havens, and perhaps he finds happiness and peace there. But what a noble thing--surely he is a tragi-cool character! 
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:33 pm
Jon Remillard and Dorothea MacDonald in Julian May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy. (Jack the Bodiless & Diamond Mask) 
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:45 pm
And perhaps Madam Guderian and Claude in the saga of the Exiles same author. Though they're not really cool I suppose!
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:07 pm
No, but they're certainly cooler than most 130 year olds! 
Then of course, there's poor old Dennis/Fury...
Then of course, there's poor old Dennis/Fury...
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:13 pm
The Fionavar Tapestry (Guy Gavriel Kay) teems with such characters:
Kevin Laine (though from his own perspective, his fate was eucatastrophic, not tragic)
Prince Diarmuid
Finn
Darien
Kevin Laine (though from his own perspective, his fate was eucatastrophic, not tragic)
Prince Diarmuid
Finn
Darien
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:41 pm
I echo this post ad infinitum.ur-monkey wrote:Jon Remillard and Dorothea MacDonald in Julian May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy. (Jack the Bodiless & Diamond Mask)
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:43 pm
Cripes! I haven't mentioned Nyle from Mordant's Need yet! 