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If Software Developers Were Lord of The Ring Characters

Which Lord of the Rings character does your code show you are?

Nassos Michas
Better Programming
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6 min readMar 16, 2023

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Image from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings movie promotion

Who doesn’t love Peter Jackson’s epic film adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings novel? And who doesn’t love endless and endless hours of writing code, debugging, and testing? Not you, obviously… you are a fierce code warrior, a master of keys, a programming encyclopaedia, a tech guru, a Dalai Lama and Senpai, the Yin and Yang, and you always deliver on time and on budget.

I’m glad you found me, warrior. I need strong men and women by my side, ready to fight an unfair fight, ready to give their all, ready to make relentless sacrifices just to keep our project manager happy.

But before we embark on this epic adventure together… I need to know… How shall I call you?

Saruman

Saruman character from Lord of the Rings, as generated by Midjourney

Undoubtedly among the team's most powerful and awesome leaders, you are often the person relied upon to provide fear and threat when tight deadlines need to be met. You are the boss’s right hand, and…

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Nassos Michas
Nassos Michas

Written by Nassos Michas

BSc, MSc in Software engineering | Cert. Scrum master | Cert. Professional for Software Architecture | Cert. Professional for Requirements Engineering

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