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Marin Dremock's avatar

Elrond vs. Durin in the first round is brutal!!!

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JRR Jokien's avatar

true creation requires sacrifice 😅

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Marin Dremock's avatar

Ah and what a sacrifice it was😭🤣

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Nick Polk's avatar

I felt the same way!

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

I love the idea of book versus movie! Or how about doing all bad guys?

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JRR Jokien's avatar

Yeah, book vs. movie is pretty interesting to me, though I love that idea of all villains! haha

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Nate's avatar

Or good guys on one side and bad guys on the other so the final is good vs evil

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Casey Craigie's avatar

I think that's how it went last year, if I remember correctly.

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Nate's avatar

Ahh I don't think I was around for that one!

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JRR Jokien's avatar

Yeah, last year the regions were "Heroes of the Hobbit" and "Heroes of LOTR" on one side and "Villains of the Hobbit" and "Villains of LOTR" on the other! You can check out the bracket here (and follow the links at the bottom of each to track the progress OR just search this site for 'March Madness Champion' I think to skip to the end haha)

https://www.jrrjokien.com/i/142346886/jokien-with-tolkien-middle-earth-march-madness-tournament

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Sawyer Pollock's avatar

Either heroes one side and villains another or bracket where each book character initially goes against themselves in movie form

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JRR Jokien's avatar

Oh I like it just starting with all those matchups: take on your doppelganger and then face off against the stronger version of all the other characters haha

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Sawyer Pollock's avatar

Yes, exactly!!

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Samantha Coté's avatar

A favorite moments bracket would be so fun. Or best locations!

Also, Treebeard vs Pippin was so hard, why’d you do that 🤣

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Max Kucharski's avatar

Book vs movie characters is great, but I've been thinking about seeing slaughter next year in the form of making it a multiverse clash between LOTR and GoT!😁 I'm curious how badly the latter would be smashed in the votings... or would they?🤔

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Tiffany Thornton's avatar

I’m here for the all Silmarillion bracket! The Valar would make some interesting matchups. (Currently listening to Andy Serkis read the Simarillion for the second time, quite enjoyable.) I didn’t have to look anyone up! Had to make some guess for WoR though, because I have yet to see it.

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Luthien's avatar

Loved this! it was pretty easy to vote. I bet you can guess at least one person i voted for based on my username alone.. ;-)

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Jaren Adamson's avatar

Fun stuff

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Elisabeth G. Biggs's avatar

This is such a fun idea! I can't wait to see how it rolls out. =D

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Cari L.'s avatar

I'd love to see Books vs Movies!

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M W Knepp's avatar

Definitely would enjoy pitting book versions of characters against the movie versions of themselves

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Katia’s Kingdom's avatar

So fun!!

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Emma Spencer's avatar

Beren vs Túrin is brutal, my poor tragic dumpster fire! So excited to see how these matches shake out! And as for next year, I think an All Silmarillion bracket would be intensely amazing!

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