Last Week's Poll's Results
Posted Friday, February 28, 2003 - 17:37 CET by Sorcerer

What we asked:

Q: Which member of the Fellowship of the Ring is your favourite?
(559 votes total)

Legolas (137) 25%
Gandalf (127) 23%
Aragorn (102) 18%
Gimli (93) 17%
Boromir (35) 6%
What's a Fellowship of the Ring? (23) 4%
Sam (22) 4%
Pippin (12) 2%
Frodo (5) 1%
Merry (3) 1%

Well, the results pretty much speak for themselves... I don't know if people voted totally under the impression of the movies, but I suspect I couldn't really say "vote on the basis of the books", since everyone who has seen the movies would have been influenced even subconsciously.

Surprisingly enough, Legolas leads the poll with a quarter of votes (25%). Gandalf is close on his heels with 23%. Aragorn is the next most popular with 18% of votes, closely followed by Gimli with 17%.

There is a steep drop after this to Boromir, with 6% of people's votes. 4% of the people who voted actually don't know what the Fellowship of the Ring is, believe it or not. I suggest a good spanking with a big one-volume edition of the Lord of the Rings for this uneducated lot.

Anyway, the least popular of all are obviously the hobbits, though curiously, Sam is the most popular of them all with 4% of people voting for him. Pippin is next with 2%, followed by Frodo and Merry with 1% each.