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May
Thursday Thirteen: Book Crushes
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I’m inspired by Susan Wiggs’s blog post about pre-teen crushes on characters from books later made into movies. (Local author alert!) I know what you’re thinking: Peter Pan, right? But no. My feelings for the fairy in green tights are completely platonic. (Tiger Lily, on the other hand, is hawt.) I also never liked Gilbert or the guy from Little Women.
What characters captured your heart growing up?
The rules: the books don’t have to be made into movies, but the movies do have to be based on a book. Your crush occurred between birth and age 18.
Here are mine:
- Rufio! Rufio! from the movie Hook, loosely based on Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. BIG crush.
- Prince Philip from the movie Sleeping Beauty, based on the fairy tale by the same name. (david kawena’s gallery on deviantart is even better!)
- Mendanbar, King of the Enchanted Forest, from Searching for Dragons (sequel to Dealing with Dragons) by Patricia C. Wrede.
- Wesley, from The Princess Bride. I doubt there’s a woman my age who didn’t have a crush on him. AS YOU WISH!!!!
- Calvin O’Keefe (notably not from whatever movie has been made) from the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. I recreated his science experiment with the plants when I was in middle school.
- Haakon Haakonsen (the kid) from the movie Shipwrecked, based on the book “Haakon Haakonsen. A Norwegian Robinson Crusoe” by author O. V. Falck-Ytter’s, published in 1873.
- Robert Roy MacGreggor, from the movie Rob Roy, based on the book by Sir Walter Scott
- Shang from Disney’s Mulan, loosely based on a poem. Look at those pecs! I confess to pausing this movie so that I could draw his rippling abs. yum
- Connor from the book Trinity by Leon Uris. (Irish guys are hot!)
- Ari Ben Canaan from the movie/book Exodus by Leon Uris.
- Will from His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (introduced in book 2, The Subtle Knife). A man who likes cats!
- Aragorn, who is so much hotter than Legolas, from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein. (I’m reaching. I read the books, but didn’t have a crush until the movie, which came out after I was 18. so sue me.)
- Vidanric from Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith, which I didn’t read until after 18, but it’s a YA and I should have. He’s hot.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
TOTALLY agree on 2, 4, 7, and 12. And I’m still drooling over that Disney gallery. It feels sort of wrong, but *grin*.
May 8th, 2009 at 7:57 am
I beg to differ, I don’t think Aragorn is hotter than Legolas at all. No, no. But I did have a crush on Wesley, you’re right, who wouldn’t. And I was way over 18, too. Who cares? Happy belated TT! Rikki
May 10th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
On a very related note, I wanted to let you know that I tagged you for a meme.
http://dscribwomen.blogspot.com/2009/05/hunky-hero.html
Also, seeing Aragorn on your post made me remember when the first movie came out in theaters and my friend Wes leaned over to ask, “So… is Elvish the Language of Love?”
May 11th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Aragorn! a man who likes backpacking.
Kate – yes, elvish is the language of love. that’s great.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
What I meant to add was, I totally just blogged about the same topic: http://stephanie.posterous.com/underrated-fictional-antiheroes-i-loved-over
I thought I was the only one who fell in love with Rufio when watching HOOK! Calvin O’Keefe also made my list of heroes, and I know about a dozen girls who crushed on Captain Sheng even though he was animated =)
My list is more about anti-heroes, but most of them I crushed on before I was 18: Sydney Carton, Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre), Jeff Rankin (Stranger with my Face), Calvin O’Keefe, Harrison Bergeron, The Beast, Atreyu (Neverending Story), Jack Merridew (Lord of the Flies), Justin (The Secret of NIMH), Madmartigan (Willow)