Sabriel could probably win this without the help of Mogget

[bunn]

I can only assume that all the people voting for Brienne and Jaime to win in a battle against Sabriel and Mogget, have only read A Song of Ice and Fire, but not the Abhorsen series, and don't really understand what they are up against.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/476984.htmlSabriel is way more

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[anna_wing]

I do not think that anyone in "Song of Ice and Fire" would be able to cope with Middle-Earth, except possibly the dwarf whose name I forget, who would have the sense to move to the Shire and take up some quiet and unobtrusive occupation.

I love the idea of Morgoth as Mogget, though perhaps Sauron, in his older incarnation of Tevildo, would do too.

[bunn]

Tyrion. Can see Tyrion hiding in the Shire, although he might find the less-invaded parts of Gondor more familiar.

I thought about Tevildo, but ultimately Sauron is kind of Morgoth's servant, and Mogget would never settle for that.

[ladyofastolat]

I'm suspect that the Greyjoys would have a whale of a time being Corsairs of Umbar. They probably wouldn't let themselves get vanquished by an army of the dead, either. Unless they remembered the whole "what is dead will never die but rises again harder and stronger" thing, that is.

Tyrion wouldn't cope with the Shire. Not enough brothels. (Unless you want to believe that it was a veritable hotbed of brothels, but Tolkien censored them away.)

[bunn]

The Greyjoys got vanquished by Robert Baratheon!

I think any self-respecting Corsair should be able to eat their squidly guts.

[timetiger]

I've not read "A Song of Ice and Fire" nor seen "Game of Thrones," but "Mogget" is close enough to my surname that I did a double take. I take it he's not nice to know, what with being the Morgoth of his universe? Relatives! There's always one. . .

[bunn]

Mogget and Sabriel are from the Abhorsen books by Garth Nix, whereas Brienne and Jaime are from Game of Thrones/ASOIF. The premise of the confrontation seems to be to take two people from each universe and take a vote on who would win

[timetiger]

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining. I'd like to try the Abhorsen books. Have to scale the mountain of books about Scotland &c first, though.

[anna_wing]

The Silmarillion would certainly have turned out quite differently if the Valar had put Morgoth into a cat's body when they released him from Mandos. For one thing, he would have been asleep 16 hours out of 24, thus significantly reducing his time available for mischief-making. And Feanor could have just let him bat the Silmarils about until he got bored with them.

[bunn]

The more I think about it, the more I think the Valar were missing a trick with the 'be a cat' idea. It's inspired!

Admittedly the Silmarils would end up under the sofa a lot, but that still seems a great improvement over what actually happened to them.