Well, anyway, Tolkien wins, despite this...coalition...thing...
So, last match of the Round of 32, which of course means...
Heeeeeeere's Vergil! lol
The Original Rock Star, Lord Byron, couldn't beat him...
Can Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson crack the case on how to do so?
Vergil vs. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and sorry, I love Holmes/Watson too much NOT to vote for Conan Doyle, even though Vergil's far more important.
Conan Doyle: 1
Vergil: 0
#TeamCoco (whoops, wrong Conan.)
"See your enemies crushed before you, and hear the lamentations of--"
Whoops, ALSO the wrong Conan!
"What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
THERE we go! :)
From "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," my favorite long Holmes quote, and incidentally, the last lines of the last episode of the Granada Sherlock Holmes series that Jeremy Brett ever did, dying shortly after finishing that episode.