# Digest urth.v031.n018 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Dec 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice K. Turner *18 Dec 2001, 18:18* >> Have we been here before? >> >> Arwen = Apheta >> Aragorn = Severian >> elves = Heirodules >> Gandalf = Father Inire >> Gollum = Baldanders (has to get that ring you know, or maybe Saruman) >> Ring = Claw >> Sauron = Abaia >> >> I am unsure who Cate Blanchett gets to play > Master Malrubius. > > Looks like I was unclear above. I meant that LotR may have been Wolfe's > model in how to handle literarily the role of God, not that BotNS is some > kind of imitation of LotR. > > Jerry Friedman Nevertheless, David Duffy's equivalences are amusing and apt. I'm looking forward to the movie--fairly appreciative review (negatives: too much background music, too repetitive, women simply banner objects, though apparently Cate Blanchett looks spectacular as Galadriel) in The New Yorker. -alga ---