(Thank you for all of your nominations! The voting round will begin soon!)
Hello my friends! I am incredibly excited to announce that the 2020 Silmaril Awards have come upon us!
And this year I am quite pleased that I will be hosting the Strangest Characters ceremony! I will be interesting, to say the least, and I can’t wait to see who appears in the comments below!
Now, remember, the strangest character is someone who is… quite strange. Perhaps not at first glance, or perhaps at very first glance. They stand out from the crowd, in either a good way or a bad way. They aren’t quite like anyone else. They have eccentricities people find downright odd. But maybe they have a heart of gold, hidden under all that strangeness. Or perhaps a heart of coal…Whatever the case may be, these characters are always entertaining!
A few rules before you scamper down to the comment section:
- NO Lord of the Rings characters. Most of them will be presenting the award winners, and, well, how awkward would it be to accept your own award?
- No previous winners. If you don’t know who those previous winners, check it out on our site!
- Only fantasy characters are available for nomination. If a solid argument can be made for a certain book or series that you think is technically in the fantasy genre…we’ll allow it (such as The Lunar Chronicles).
- Be sure to mention which book/series the characters are from. Us mods consider ourselves fantasy experts extraordinaire… but we haven’t read every single fantasy book out there. It really helps us out!
- Nominate and second as many characters as your dragon-loving heart desires. All you have to do is comment down below! The top 5 MOST seconded characters will go on to the final round, so seconding is important!
- Authors are NOT allowed to vote for their own characters. But you can definitely encourage your fans to vote for them!
And be sure to nominate your favorite characters in all the other wonderful categories too!
- Most Epic Hero – Zachary Totah
- Most Epic Heroine – Tracey Dyck
- Wisest Counselor – DJ Edwardson
- Most Faithful Friend – Jenelle Schmidt
- Most Silver Tongue – Kyle Robert Shultz
- Most Mischievous Imp – Christine Smith
- Strangest Character – Me!
- Least Competent Henchman – E.E. Rawls
- Most Nefarious Villain – Kenzie Keene
- Most Magnificent Dragon – Sarah Taleweaver
We also have a super epic bookstagram challenge going on right now, so be sure to participate and include our hashtag #silmarilawards2020 so we can all see your amazing photos!
And guess what else? We are holding an awesomely amazing Rafflecopter giveaway for all you lovely folks! You could win goodies, books, or even a $50 Book Depository gift card! How awesome is that?! Follow this link to put your name in the raffle, as well as complete some other fun assignments for more entries!
I nominate Bramble, from Where the Woods Grow Wild.
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Seconding Bramble!
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I second Bramble!
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I second Bramble!
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I second Bramble!
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I nominate Hoid from Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books!
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I second!
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I second Hoid!
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I second this choice
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I nominate Peet the Sockman from The Wingfeather Saga!
Also:
Nidawi Everblooming from Goldstone Wood
Nobby Nobbs from Discworld
Lady Margolotta from Discworld
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I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF PEET! So I second Peet the Sockman from The Wingfeather Saga. He also happens to be my favorite character. 🙂
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I think Peet the Sockman already won this Strangest Character award a couple wars back, so he already is in the hall of fame with his lifelong award! ^_^
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Seconding Peet and Nidawi!
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I second Nidawi!
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I second Peet and Nidawi!
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I second Peet (not Artham :))
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I second Peet!
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I second Peet and Nidawi.
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PEET ALREADY WON PREVIOUSLY, everyone. You can stop seconding. rofl – he’s so popular! 😀
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I second Nidawi the Everblooming!
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I second Peet!
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I second Peet!
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Peet the Sockman is great I’ll second him
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I second Nidawi
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I second Nidawi!
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I nominate:
Gurgi (Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander)
Snufkin (Moomin books by Tove Jansson)
The Boggart (from The Boggart series by Susan Cooper)
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Seconding Gurgi
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I third Gurgi!
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Seconding Gurgi!
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I second Gurgi.
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I second Gurgi!!!
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I second Gurgi!
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I second Gurgi! Half creature half man, or The Missing Link.
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I second Gurgi!
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I nominate the White Knight from Through the Looking-Glass!
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Seconding the White Knight!
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Oh, that’s a fun one! I second the White Knight!
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seconding the White Knight! I love that scene
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I’ll second this chap!
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Seconding the White Knight
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I nominate Elva from the Inheritance Cycle!
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Second Elva!!!
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Seconding Elva!
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Oooh, Elva! Nice one! Seconded.
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Second Angela!
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I nominate Angela the Herbalist from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.
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I second Angela!
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Seconding Angela!
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I second Angela!
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The scarecrow from Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle! (He’s bits of two people put together, but also a scarecrow, so hopefully that’s strange enough.)
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100% second the scarecrow
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Ooh, I second the scarecrow!
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I absolutely, positively second the scarecrow. PLEASE let him win this. XD
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Yes, seconding the scarecrow for sure
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Oh my gosh, if the scarecrow wins…I will be so happy…XD
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The scarecrow is a BRILLIANT idea and I 100000% second him!
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Second the scarecrow!
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Oh, I second that one!
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Never read this, but he sounds super weird, so I’m seconding him.
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I second the Scarecrow!
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I second the Scarecrow!
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I second the scarecrow
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A second for the scarecrow!
(Didn’t Sophi call him Turnip Head? Can’t recall if that was in the books and the movie, or just the movie…)
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I nominate Wizard Fenworth from The Dragonkeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul.
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I second Fenworth.
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I definitely second good ol’ Fenworth! 😀
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I second Fenworth!
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Second that!!
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I second Fenworth!
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Nominating:
Dr. Zeiger (The Green Ember)
Calcifer (Howl’s Moving Castle)
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I second Calcifer.
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I second Calcifer!
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Second Calcifer, even though I nominated him for the imp!
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Seconding Calcifer! I came here with the thought of nominating him!
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I second Dr.Zeiger!
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Second Calcifer!
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Dr. Zeiger!!!!!!!! I second him and Calcifer!
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I econ Calcifer!
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Seconding Calcifer!
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I second Dr. Zeiger!
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A second for Calcifer!
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I nominate:
– Winter (The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer)
– Luck (Spindle by W.R. Gingell)
– Licht (Beast of the Night by E.E. Rawls)
– Salazar (Paper Crowns by Mirriam Neal)
– The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
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I second Winter!
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Seconding Luck! He is very much a strange character indeed. xD
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Second the Cheshire Cat
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I second the Cheshire Cat!
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Seconding the Cheshire Cat!
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I second Winter and the Cheshire Cat!
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Seconding the Cheshire Cat!
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Seconding the Cheshire Cat and Winter!
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I second the Cheshire Cat!
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Second Luck
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I second the Cheshire Cat!
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I second the Cheshire Cat.
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I second Winter and The Cheshire Cat
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I second Cheshire!
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I second Elva, Angela, Dr. Zeiger, and Winter!
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I second Fenworth and nominate:
-Hoid (various Cosmere novels, Brandon Sanderson)
-Wayne (Mistborn Era 2, Brandon Sanderson)
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I second Fenworth.
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I second Wayne
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Seconding Hoid and Wayne!
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I nominate Rip Van Winkle from Kyle Robert Shultz’s Crockett and Crane.
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I second Rip Van Winkle.
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I second Rip Van Winkle as well!
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I second Shultz’s Rip Van Winkle!
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Yes, second!
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I second:
Gurgi
The Scarecrow from Howl’s Moving Castle
I nominate:
Nobby Nobbs from Terry Pratchett’s City Watch books
Wizard Corkoran from Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones
Glerk (the swamp monster) from The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
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I second Glerk!
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I second Glerk!
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I second The Scarecrow from Howl’s Moving Castle, Hoid, Elva, Rip Van WInkle, and Fenworth!
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I nominate Laura from Kendra E. Ardnek’s Rizkaland Chronicles and anywhere else she might so choose as to appear!
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I second Laura from Rizkaland!
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Seconding Laura.
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I second Laura!
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Seconding: Peet the Sockman; Nidawi the Everblooming and Gurgi.
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I love that everyone is super determined to make sure Peet wins a second time even though he can’t. LOL
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Well, if anyone were to win twice, he definitely deserves to!
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I second Calcifer, Winter, Luck, Salazar, and Rip van Winkle!
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I now nominate:
Miss Gloria Track/Lady Quack, from “The Nicholas Book”. With her non-stop chatter, and her incessant ringing of her (much bigger than standard) Salvation Army bell, she’s already strange enough. But mention Santa Claus? You’ll get a deeper, more mysterious strangeness than you could’ve expected.
I would also really like to nominate the Council of Days from “The Man Who Was Thursday”. Seven men, with one (?) imposter, and each of them looking to him like some horrific creature, from the decaying Friday to the darkly-bespectacled Saturday to the great and terrible Sunday. They’re all so bizarre, I just have to give them a try.
Daphne Grimm from “The Sisters Grimm” series. Daphne, the younger of the two sisters, has constantly shifting interests and catchphrases (along with an odd sense of style), but she is also fiercely loyal to her family and their duty, as well as being a little fighter (with her own “intimidating” face she makes to go with it).
Granny Relda, also from “Sisters Grimm”. At first, the sisters (well, Sabrina) are put off by their German grandmother’s chaoticly loud car, her, uh, UNIQUE cooking, and her odd habits, but they soon find out that she is a smart, resourceful, and largely fearless fairy-tale detective. She soon teaches the family trade to her young “lieblings”.
Miracle Max and Valerie from “The Princess Bride”. The cranky old ex-Miracle Man only helps bring back a mostly-dead Westley after his wife screeches “Humperdink” repeatedly at him, and only by using some very strange methods to determine his condition (bellows) and to restore him for an hour (giant chocolate-covered pill).
And lastly, Iko from “The Lunar Chronicles”. An android with a human personality, who chatters, has a crush on Prince Kai, and saves ribbons and gloves for the mechanic Cinder (who doesn’t much care for such things). She also won Most Faithful Friend last year!
Monster comment, but hey, I like a lot of strange characters!
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I second Miracle Max and Valerie!
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I second Miracle Max!
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I second Granny Relda xD
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I second Miracle Max
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I second Miracle Max.
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Miracle Max! I second him and Valerie,
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Seconding Miracle Max and Valerie!!
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I second Miracle Max and Valerie!
And I’ll second Iko as well. ^_^
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I second Miracle Max and Valerie!
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I second Gurgi (I love him!), Elva, Winter, Salazar, and Rip Van Winkle from Crockett and Crane.
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I nominate Oskar N. Reeteep from the Wingfeather Saga
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Nice one! I second Oskar.
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I second Oskar!
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Ooh, yes, a second for Mr. Reeteep!
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I second Miracle Max, Valerie, Iko, and Oskar.
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I nominate Lucinda the fairy from Ella Enchanted and Vollys from The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine, and Aunt Elinor and Fenoglio from Inkheart/spell/death!
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I second the Inkheart charries!
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I second Lucinda!
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I second Aunt Elinor and Fenoglio!
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I second:
Gurgi (Prydain)
The Scarecrow (Howl’s Moving Castle)
Fenworth (Dragonkeeper Chronicles)
Calcifer (Howl’s Moving Castle)
The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)
Miracle Max (The Princess Bride)
Lucinda (Ella Enchanted)
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I second:
Nidawi the Everblooming
Angela the Herbalist
The scarecrow from HMC (that guy scared me, tbh)
Wizard Fenworth (Every year I hope that he wins!)
Calcifer
Winter
Cheshire Cat
Rip van Winkle
Miracle Max
And I nominate:
-Hugh (I think that’s his name? The boy with bees living in his stomach in the Miss Peregrine series by Ransom Riggs)
-Minya (Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor)
-The Gentleman with Thistle-Down Hair (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke)
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The Miss Peregrine series was so bizarre.
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Definitely memorable and unique
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I second the Gentleman!
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I second Hugh and Minya!
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I second:
Gurgi from Prydain
Fenworth from DragonKeeper
Miracle Max and Valerie from The Princess Bride
And I nominate the Psammead from Five Children and It
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I second Lucinda, Volleys, and the gentleman with the thistledown hair.
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The Bat from Circus Phantasm
The Cheshire Cat from Vincent in Wonderland
The Slythy Tove from Vincent in Wonderland
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A second for the bat! (Her name’s Lian, right?)
It’s probably a bit late, but I nominate Donovan from Circus Phantasm.
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I nominate Jack Pumpkinhead from the Oz series!
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I second the White Knight and Fenworth.
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Seconding Bramble.
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I second:
Nidawi the Everblooming (Go Goldstone Wood!!)
Rip Van Winkle (from the AfterVerse)
Iko (Lunar Chronicles)
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I nominate
Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border from Bone by Jeff Smith
Mermie also from Bone
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Unfortunately, the Bone series is ineligible for nomination, since it is a graphic novel series. We try to stick to strictly literature during these awards. They sound like awesome characters though! I’ve been curious about the Bone books…
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I second:
Rip Van Winkle (Crockett and Crane, Kyle Robert Shultz)
Luck (Spindle, W.R. Gingell)
Laura from Rizkaland
Miracle Max
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I second:
Licht
Laura
Miracle Max
Oskar N. Reeteep
Iko
The Psammead
And I’m putting in my siblings’ as well (because having trouble with internet):
My brother seconds:
Bramble
Gurgi
Snufkin
Boggart
Angela the Herbalist
Calcifer
Cheshire Cat
Salazar
Rip Van Winkle
Miracle Max and Valerie
Oskar N. Reeteep
The Psammead
And my sister seconds:
Bramble
Nidawi
Gurgi
Snufkin
Angela the Herbalist
Calcifer
SALAZAR
Oskar N. Reeteep
The Psammead
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I second
Oskar Rateep
Bramble
Cheshire Cat
Dr. Zeiger
Rip Van Winkle
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Second Laura
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