History Characters / MiddleEarthFilmMen

* PapaWolf: He attacks Pippin when he believes that the latter attempts to take Faramir's body from him.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: He calmly accepts his death and dies peacefully
'''Théoden''': My body is broken. You have to let me go...I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now be ashamed.

* AdultFear: Bard fears for the safety of his three children and his town that something nearly unstoppable could come anytime and destroy them all. [[spoiler:It's especially shown in the scene when he's trying to fight his way to the market and sees a gigantic troll coming towards them, ready to kill, and when he is using Bain as a makeshift bow in a last-ditch attempt to kill Smaug.]]

* PapaWolf: Has little interest in claiming his birthright as Lord of Dale compared to his overwhelming need to protect Bain, Sigrid, and Tilda (especially after his wife's death).

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Japanese dub), Jérôme Pauwels (French dub)

* BadBoss:

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He was the one who pushed Boromir to bring the ring back to Gondor to use as a weapon against Sauron; of course, he can hardly be blamed for the Ring's corrupting influence, but he planted the seeds that the Ring later exploited, which arguably resulted in the Fellowship breaking.

* AbusiveParents: Of the verbal and neglectful variety, although only to Faramir. He favors Boromir and dismisses Faramir entirely, diminishing his accomplishments and blaming him for whatever goes wrong.

* HowlOfSorrow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gogezOlJDs Éomer's reaction]] to Éowyn's [[NotQuiteDead apparent death]] at the Battle of Pelennor Fields involves [[SkywardScream screaming]] and [[ManlyTears sobbing]] that can be described as nothing less than [[TearJerker gut-wrenching.]] Consider that (as the novels spell out) right after finding out that his elderly uncle Theoden is dead, Éowyn is officially his ''last living relative'', making his shock at thinking she has been mortally injured a far greater double-blow.

* BadassBeard: A short beard, but still visibly cool.

* BadassBeard: Runs in the family.

* BadassBeard: Like his descendant, Bard.

** His decision to send Faramir to retake Osgiliath is a pure suicide mission. In the books, Gondor's forces do not counter-attack at Osgiliath after it has fallen. Instead, Denethor makes the decision to reinforce (the still well-held) Osgiliath after Faramir has returned from there to Minas Tirith with the message of the enemy's approach. Faramir then departs for Osgiliath with the reinforcements and commands the defensive action there, and in the event the city is taken. At this point, Faramir and his men retreat from Osgiliath in mostly good order to the Rammas Echor, the wall encircling the Pelennor Fields, and the Causeway Forts, which guard the main gate in the Rammas and the main road from Osgiliath to Minas Tirith. There, Faramir successfully links up with forces retreating from Cair Andros in the north. He then fights another successful delaying action and again retreats from the Rammas in good order, drawing the enemy recklessly across the built-up and difficult to traverse ground of the townlands of the Pelennor. Only within a few hundred meters of the gates of Minas Tirith does his force begin to rout, which further encourages the enemy to reckless pursuit. At the last instant, the gate opens and Denethor unleashes his sortie, annihilating the enemy's vanguard and recovering Faramir's force. In this defensive campaign, Faramir and Denethor have thus bought time for Minas Tirith to complete its final preparations, and inflicted significant casualties and disorganization on the host of Mordor.
** He also never told Minas Tirith's defenders to abandon their posts. In the books, even at his most hopeless, Denethor did not cease preparing Gondor for war as best he could.

* CanonForeigner: He's an original character to the film.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He survives Smaug's attack on Laketown after the Master pushes him out of the boat to lose weight, and despite a near-attempted hanging by the angry survivors and being in the middle of the battle he still avoids any karma, and escapes with a bodice stuffed full of gold. Fortunately, he doesn't escape: he ends up being catapulted into a troll's mouth, killing them both. The Karmic part of this comes when it's one of his gold coins that releases the trebuchet he hides in. His greed and selfishness kill him in the end. ]]

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* AdaptationalVillainy: The film focuses far more on Isildur's failure to destroy the ring, and doesn't bring up his earlier (and later) accomplishments. Aragorn for example looks poorly on Isildur and wonders if he's as weak. In the books, Isildur is generally much more fondly remembered as Gondor's co-founder and for ordering Gondor and Arnor as high king following the war of the last alliance. His failure to destroy the ring is more treated as a tragic flaw in an otherwise truly great man.

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' John Bach

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Peter [=McKenzie=]

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Henry Sinclair

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Bruce Hopkins

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Rolando del Castro (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Japanese dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Rogelio Guerra (Latin American Spanish dub), Katsuhiko Sasaki (Japanese dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/KoichiYamadera (Japanese dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Herman López (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarioCastaneda (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Fernando Calderón (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarioCastaneda (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Alejandro Mayén (Latin American Spanish dub)

* AdaptationalVillain: The film focuses far more on Isildur's failure to destroy the ring, and doesn't bring up his earlier (and later) accomplishments. Aragorn for example looks poorly on Isildur and wonders if he's as weak. In the books, Isildur is generally much more fondly remembered as Gondor's co-founder and for ordering Gondor and Arnor as high king following the war of the last alliance. His failure to destroy the ring is more treated as a tragic flaw in an otherwise truly great man.

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Bernard Hill

** His decision to send Faramir to retake Osgiliath is a pure suicide mission. In the books, Gondor's forces do not counter-attack at Osgiliath after it has fallen. Instead, Denethor makes the decision to reinforce Osgiliath after Faramir has returned from there to Minas Tirith with the message of the enemy's approach. Once Osgiliath is lost, Faramir and his men retreat in mostly good order to the Rammas Echor, the wall encircling the Pelennor Fields, and the Causeway Forts, which guard the main gate in the Rammas and the main road from Osgiliath to Minas Tirith. There, Faramir successfully links up with forces retreating from Cair Andros in the north. He then fights another successful delaying action and again retreats from the Rammas in good order, drawing the enemy recklessly across the built-up and difficult to traverse ground of the townlands of the Pelennor. Only within a few hundred meters of the gates of Minas Tirith does his force begin to rout, which further encourages the enemy to reckless pursuit. At the last instant, the gate opens and Denethor unleashes his sortie, annihilating the enemy's vanguard and recovering Faramir's force. In this defensive campaign, Faramir and Denethor have thus bought time for Minas Tirith to complete its final preparations, and inflicted significant casualties and disorganization on the host of Mordor.

** His decision to send Faramir to retake Osgiliath is a pure suicide mission. In the books, Gondor's forces do not counter-attack at Osgiliath after it has fallen. Instead, Denethor makes the decision to reinforce Osgiliath after Faramir has returned from there to Minas Tirith with the message of the enemy's approach. Once Osgiliath is lost, Faramir and his men retreat in mostly good order to the Rammas Echor, the wall encircling the Pelennor Fields, and the Causeway Forts, which guard the main gate in the Rammas and the main road from Osgiliath to Minas Tirith. There, Faramir fights another successful delaying action and again retreats in good order, drawing the enemy recklessly across the built-up and difficult to traverse ground of the townlands of the Pelennor. Only within a few hundred meters of the gates of Minas Tirith does his force begin to rout, which further encourages the enemy to reckless pursuit. At the last instant, the gate opens and Denethor unleashes his sortie, annihilating the enemy's vanguard and recovering Faramir's force. In this defensive campaign, Faramir and Denethor have thus bought time for Minas Tirith to complete its final preparations, and inflicted significant casualties and disorganization on the host of Mordor.

** His decision to send Faramir to retake Osgiliath is presented as a pure suicide mission. In the books, most of Gondor's senior commanders knew that any such attack was likely doomed, but tactically necessary to buy time for Minas Tirith to finish its final preparations.