Tagged for the First Time!

(Sounds naughty, doesn't it?) But here it is, and Mrs. Darwin tagged me:

Booked by 3 Meme

Name up to three characters . . .

1) . . . you wish were real so you could meet them.

1. Treebeard (Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)
2. the Jesuit priest from "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Mustapha Mond (Huxley's Brave New World)

2) . . . you would like to be. The hardest part about this is choosing women.

1. Yavanna, wife of Aulë, creator of the trees Telperion and Laurelin (The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien)
2. Elizabeth Dalloway, daughter of Clarissa Dalloway (Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway), but only temporarily. I mean, where was she that day? Besides riding on the top of an omnibus?
   
3. the boy (from Forster's "Celestial Omnibus")

At one point I would have written, without hesitation:

1. Morgaine (from The Mists of Avalon by Marian Zimmer Bradley)
2. Nicholas or Armand (from The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice)
3. Dorian Grey (from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey)

My, how people do change!!

3) . . . who scare you.

1. Duke Ferrara (from "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, though he might just be historical...)
2. Lazarus Long (whom I'd like to meet, but only for conversation!)
   
3. Stephen Daedalus (from Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
   

These were really, really hard, btw.

I tag:

1. Chris from Stuff as Dreams are Made On
   
2. Entropy from Sphere of Influence
3. Sarah of Mommy, Ph.D. (whenever she gets a chance!)