Sabriel could probably win this without the help of Mogget

[bunn]

I can only assume that all the people voting for Brienne and Jaime to win in a battle against Sabriel and Mogget, have only read A Song of Ice and Fire, but not the Abhorsen series, and don't really understand what they are up against.

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Sabriel is way more resourceful than either Jaime or Brienne, and has powers they don't.  But Mogget is essentially a Vala.  Actually, it occurs to me that Mogget is more or less Morgoth.  Morgoth, if someone had turned him into an adorable cat at an early stage in his career.

And Jaime Lannister?  You are not Fingolfin.  You aren't even Boromir.  If someone dumped you into either the Old Kingdom or Middle Earth, I'm pretty sure you'd be crying to go home within a week.

Brienne could probably make a go of it in Middle Earth, or indeed the Old Kingdom, but she's no match for Mogget!Morgoth. 

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Mogget and Sabriel are from the Abhorsen books by Garth Nix, whereas Brienne and Jaime are from Game of Thrones/ASOIF. The premise of the confrontation seems to be to take two people from each universe and take a vote on who would win.

Mogget is an interesting relation to have, and definitely preferable to Morgoth!

Morgoth and Mogget both start out in a similar way; the powerful rebel who won't work with the others to bring order to the world. But instead of being bound by the chain Angainor, like Morgoth, Mogget gets turned into a small white cat, and he spends most of the history of the world in that form.

As you might expect, being a cat has an impact on him : he spends a lot of time asleep, develops a passionate love of fish, and delights in sunbeams and catnip.

And in the end, when he finally regains his freedom, he decides that actually being a cat for so long has helped him understand the benefits of this 'order' idea, and he changes his mind. So on the whole, not a terrible relative to have, and one wonders if instead of mucking around with chains, the Valar had tried the whole 'be a cat' thing how that might have worked out :-D

[timetiger.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining. I'd like to try the Abhorsen books. Have to scale the mountain of books about Scotland &c first, though.