GENE: had a weird dream. in my dream, raistlin and gollum were the same person/being. must be the rotk fever kicking in. but then, when one thinks about it, the dragonlance trilogy and the lord of the rings trilogy does have some very similar ideas - that is, the hickman/weiss tandem got some ideas from mr tolkien's work. but could you really blame them since both works deal with the same genra - fanstasy. the companions and the fellowship members also share similar personalities as that of the non-fantasy group. the group has done this tens of times, let's take the (extended) gaming group as an example (as raistlin sees them):



allan - tanis - the official leader. he's the one who the members follow around (or in our case, we have no choice since he owns the car we use to go around)

sunshine - laurana - strong leader type - has her own angsty side though

max - flint - always comlaining about stuff, yet cares for those around him in his own special way.

chris - tasselhoff - always lost. always getting himself in trouble. always finding something that distracts him.

mike - riverwind - the warrior ranger wanderer. until the time he hooks up with goldmoon (see below) that is.

ching - goldmoon - another strong leader type. pious. was able to tame riverwind.

obey - kitiara - dark sister.

edy - caramon - twin to raistlin. shares some sort of bond.

ipe - tika - caramon's s.o. (for some reason, i could really see ipe in tika's role)

me - raistlin - his manipulations and dark secrets tolerated by the group.



see?