# What literary character are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447 "2013-09-22T15:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/1 "2013-09-22T15:28:19Z")
[Quiz here](http://bit.ly/16zdAuR). I got Hermione from Harry Potter – I’ll take it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/2 "2013-09-22T15:36:55Z")
Walt Feinberg from **[Trying Hard to Hear You](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/tryinghard.htm).** ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/3 "2013-09-22T15:46:55Z")
I too got Hermione. I know next to nothing about her though, so I can’t say how good a fit it is. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/4 "2013-09-22T15:47:45Z")
Sherlock Holmes? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/5 "2013-09-22T16:18:15Z")
Me too. I have to wonder what all the possible characters were, I suspect there aren’t very many for the “test” to choose among. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/6 "2013-09-22T16:20:48Z")
Galadriel. \*\*\*…you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! \*\*\* Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/7 "2013-09-22T16:24:29Z")
I’m Galadriel, too. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/8 "2013-09-22T16:45:35Z")
Another Sherlock. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/9 "2013-09-22T16:48:31Z")
And yet another Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/10 "2013-09-22T16:52:49Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Galadriel. > > \*\*\*…you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! \*\*\* > > Cool. > [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I’m Galadriel, too. Me, too. Haven’t read the books and the movie bored the crap out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/11 "2013-09-22T16:52:54Z")
I’m also Galadriel! I tried taking it a few different times, varying the answers, and got Hermione, Galadriel again, and Karen Blixen. There is some variety, but perhaps board members who are drawn to this sort of quiz are more alike in key aspects than we think. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/12 "2013-09-22T16:54:41Z")
Karen Blixen ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/13 "2013-09-22T16:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > You are Sherlock Holmes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous mystery series. You are smart, witty, and love a challenge. You use rationality and reason in all things and don’t let your heart rule your head. You are measured and stable and you don’t let people push you around. > > In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre puzzles for him to solve. Holmes, with trusty Watson by his side, is equal to these and the other challenges. Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes series over the course of a decade, but in 1893 apparently “killed” the character. Doyle resisted public pressure for 8 years before finally publishing The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/14 "2013-09-22T17:04:53Z")
Karen Blixen. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/15 "2013-09-22T17:15:23Z")
Yet another Sherlock here. That’s 5 out of 15 Sherlocks as of this posting. (Six, if that’s the result **Roderick** was referring to, but I’m not making that assumption.) I note that the description is rather…fluffy, leaving out relevant, if less pleasant, facts about the character. Holmes would not approve. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/16 "2013-09-22T17:20:26Z")
[Gandalf](http://www.abebooks.com/docs/Community/Featured/LiteraryCharacterQuiz/results/gandalf.html). I don’t see the resemblance, but I’m flattered all the same. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/17 "2013-09-22T17:20:53Z")
I got Gandalf. Not sure why, but it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/18 "2013-09-22T18:00:18Z")
You are Eowyn from the trilogy The Lord of the Rings. You are a strong woman who will not compromise your values. You stand up for those who are misunderstood and you are not afraid to fight. You are unafraid of death and to some you may seem mysterious. Hate Tolkien, and haven’t read the trilogy despite several attempts. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/19 "2013-09-22T18:27:06Z")
Add another Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/20 "2013-09-22T18:40:56Z")
Lucy from _Narnia_. Couldn’t be happier. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447.md?page=2)