History Characters / TheLordOfTheRings

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming[=/=]LetterMotif: Frodo is the son of Drogo Baggins son of Fosco Baggins son of Largo Baggins son of Balbo Baggins.

* OlderThanHeLooks: Due to the Ring's power, Frodo looks like a thirty-three-year-old Hobbit (which is what he was when he initially received the Ring) until at least his fiftieth birthday.
** [[AllThereInTheManual The Appendices reveal]] that he’s actually ten years older than ''Boromir''. Thus, in terms of age, he’s exactly in the middle of the Fellowship (Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn are older; Boromir, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are younger).

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He's tempted by the Ring to become a great lord, but he rejects it since he doesn't want to boss others around - even when the Ring plays on his love for gardening by telling him he could transform Mordor into a giant beautiful flower bed if he so wished.

* BadassBoast:

-->"I am dangerous...far more dangerous than anyone you are likely to meet, unless you are brought before the feet of the Dark Lord himself."

* BearerOfBadNews: The Rohirrim gave him the name Stormcrow - for his habit of appearing out of nowhere to announce some calamity. Wormtongue names him 'Láthspell'; "ill news is an ill guest."

* ElementalBaggage: [-"I cannot burn snow."-]

* FamousLastWords: "Fly, you fools!"

** Returns to Bag End after escaping Isengard, only to find that Frodo had left six days earlier.
** Proceeds to travel to Bree, arriving somewhere around ''twelve hours'' after Frodo and co.’s departure.
** Rides to Weathertop, gets ambushed by the Nazgûl, and drives them off — three days before Frodo and co. arrive.

%%%* TheSmartGuy

Favorite son and Heir of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor. Boromir is a mighty warrior of his people and their champion, more focused on feats of arms than his wiser and more bookish brother Faramir.

--> ‘War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom.’
* WarriorPrince: Though not technically royalty, he's the son of the Ruling Steward and ''de facto'' king of Gondor.
** He becomes a real Prince after the war when King Elessar offers him Ithilien as a principality.

* BigGood: Frodo even offers her the Ring because of this, although this turns out not to be a good idea.
** Her title 'The Lady of Light' also puts her in direct opposition thematically to the BigBad Sauron who is known as 'The Dark Lord'.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Played with. Galadriel ''seems'' so perfectly good that Frodo offers her the Ring (apparently forgetting Gandalf's reaction to the same offer). She reveals that she is not incorruptible - that Frodo has unthinkingly presented her with a terrible temptation. She overcomes that temptation long enough to send the Ring away.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: She gives each of the Fellowship a gift at their parting, and specifically hints that the Phial of Light she gave to Frodo may be much more useful than it looks. It is.
** Subverted with her gift to Sam (a box of soil from her garden “For [the] little gardener and lover of trees”). She even lampshades that, saying that it is a gift that will only ever be useful if he ''completes'' the quest.

The great-nephew of Elu Thingol, High King of the Sindar, Celeborn was a prince of Doriath who is the Lady Galadriel's husband and Lord of Lothlórien. He and his wife aid and shelter the Fellowship on their quest. After the destruction of the One Ring, he and Galadriel lead an attack on Sauron's citadel of Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood, destroying and purifying the last of the Dark Lord's strongholds. The prologue states that Celeborn was the last of the 'Wise' to sail west for the Undying Lands and with him left 'the last living memory of the Elder Days in Middle-earth'.

* OlderThanTheyLook: At the beginning of the story, he is 110 years old but looks only 50 due to the Ring's influence. After he gives up the Ring, age begins to rapidly catch up to him, until he looks his age (131) at the end.
** [[AllThereInTheManual The Appendices reveal]] that he’s older than Aragorn’s ''mom''.

%%%* WhereTheresAWillTheresAStickyNote

* CatchPhrase: "My Precioussss," "Gollum, Gollum!"

* EatsBabies: In ''Fellowship'' he's accused of this during his period of wandering between leaving Mordor and following Frodo. Don't put it past him.

* PrimalStance: Moves on all fours.

* TortureAlwaysWorks: When Sauron realized the "Precious" Gollum was talking about was the One Ring, he interrogated Sméagol personally, learning of the existence of Hobbits and the Shire in the process.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Unfinished Tales'': Gollum doesn’t know where the Shire is, but he pretends that it’s near the Gladden Fields where ''he'' grew up, causing Sauron to send the Nazgûl on a wild Baggins chase.

* VerbalTic: "My Precioussss," "Gollum, Gollum!"

%%%* GreenAesop

* TheResenter: He pretty much hates Gandalf due in no small part to how much everyone else (notably Varda and Galadriel) aren’t shy about saying Gandalf is the better of the two.
** The fact that Círdan chose to give Gandalf his elven ring of power Narya instead of him, is something he ''really'' resented.

-->Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!
* BlackCloak: Like the other Nazgûl, he wears one while passing himself off as a "rider in black." Apparently this is their idea of looking more normal: Gandalf claims that they use the garments to "give shape to their shapelessness."

The only other Nazgûl individually known apart from the Witch-King of Angmar and the only one whose name is known. In life, Khâmul was one of the nine Kings of men seduced by the power of the One Ring. In his case, he was a King of the Easterlings in life, but now a loyal servant to Sauron and second only to the Witch-King in authority among the Nazgûl. Just as the Witch-King ruled over Minas Morgul, Khamúl ruled over Dol Guldur, in the North.

* OptOut / SensingYouAreOutmatched: When he's confronted by legendary badass Glorfindel, he wisely retreats. Same thing happens when he senses a host of Elves nearby.

A monstrous demonic thing in spider shape, the mother of the Spiders of Mirkwood featured in ''The Hobbit'', and the last surviving offspring of Ungoliant from ''The Silmarillion'', who spins her deadly webs in a dark cave in the mountains of Mordor. Shelob is Sauron's "cat" — he doesn't control her, but lets her prey on would-be intruders (and many unlucky Orcs). Gollum leads Frodo and Sam into her lair.

* [[AngryGuardDog Angry Guard Spider]]: The main reason Sauron let her set up shop right on Mordor's back door step. She captures and kills ''everything'' that wanders into her nest, making her a more effective watch than a full gate regiment. Even orcs don't mess with her.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Of the "[[PureIsNotGood pure]] [[InvertedTrope evil]]" variety. She was stated to be immune to the ring's temptations because power holds no interest for something that just wants to eat everything. And similar to what happened between Sauron's boss and Shelob's mom, the spider's spirit is so purely evil that Sauron has no control over her whatsoever. Doesn't stop him from amusingly considering Shelob as some sort of pet, though.
* MeaningfulName: "Lob" is an archaic English word for "spider." She's female. "She-Lob."

* TimeAbyss: Definitely qualifies, being older than the sun and the entire Man race. She was born in the Year of the Trees 1362, before the First Age of the Sun and the awakening of mortal Men. When the Fellowship meet her, she's about 8377 years old (give or take ~5).
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Galadriel's granddaughter Arwen was often said to be the most beautiful Elf in Middle-earth at the time of the War of the Ring, but Galadriel's great beauty was every bit as much the stuff of legend. Tolkien described her as being 'the mightiest and fairest of all the Elves that remained in Middle-earth'. The subject of Galadriel and Arwen's beauty and whose was greatest actually nearly brought Gimli and Éomer to arms. Éomer, having seen them both, preferred Arwen to which Gimli (also having seen them both) replies, ''"You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning."''

--> "Be thou living or dark undead, [[YouShallNotPass I shall smite you, if you touch him."]]

* RedOniBlueOni: He's the Blue Oni to Sam's Red Oni.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pippin.

* BigEater: Even more than most hobbits are, possibly due to his youth.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Merry.

%%* MessianicArchetype: Though he differs from most in that he is flawed and fallible.

%%* NamedWeapons: The aforementioned Sting.

%%* RedOniBlueOni: He's the Blue Oni to Sam's Red Oni.

%%* TheFinalTemptation: At the pass of Cirith Ungol.

%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Pippin.

%%* BigEater: Even more than most hobbits are.

%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Merry.

%%* BadassBeard: He ''is'' a wizard after all.

%%* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:YouShallNotPass.]]
%%* EccentricMentor: To Bilbo and Frodo.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Really Older Than The World

%%* {{Foil}}: To Faramir.

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes

** Also to his father, Denethor. Both are noble and powerful pure-blooded Númenóreans with the abilities to read the hearts of other men and to command over them, who share a love for ancient lore and other scholarly pursuits over feats of arm. Yet [[LikeFatherLikeSon all these similarities]] only highlight their differences: the son is warm, gentle and understanding where the father is cold, harsh and scornful. Faramir chooses to keep on fighting despite having lost all hope, Denethor succumbs to despair. Faramir demonstrates humility and open-mindedness, Denethor displays arrogance and stubbornness, etc...

%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Faramir is the sensitive one in this pair. And being the ''sensitive'' one of the pair he is shown leading a commando team well behind enemy lines, holding troops together with nothing but charisma while the Nazgûl are hovering above him, and defeating a great warrior in single combat. From all of which you will infer, he is part of a BadassFamily.
%%* SiblingYinYang: With Boromir.

%%** HiddenHeartOfGold

%%%* EccentricMentor

* SatelliteCharacter: While Tolkien left Tom's nature open as a deliberate enigma, he bothered even less with Goldberry, whose main characterization seems to be ombadil's wife and possibly a NatureSpirit on his own.
* SeductionDuel: A sort of lyric variation in their first meeting with Tom: she tried to lure Tom to the river, but it's him who lured her out at the end.
* UglyGuyHotWife: While Tom's not explicitly ugly, he still looks like a compromise between Men and Dwarves; meanwhile, Goldberry is described as an Elven-like beautiful human.

* TheGhost: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', he only receives an off-hand mention, and in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' he appears only in a flashback.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: He's not a Vala, not a Maia, not a Man, not an Elf. What he is is up for debate, but one thing's for sure, he's the only one like him that we see.

[[folder:Radagast the Brown]]

The third wizard mentioned in ''The Lord of the Rings'', though he only appears second-hand, through Gandalf's account. Radagast is of the same order as Gandalf and Saruman, though he has mostly retreated from the world of Men and Elves to look after the birds and beasts of Middle-Earth. He lives in Mirkwood, in a dwelling called Rhosgobel. Saruman uses him as an unwitting dupe to lure Gandalf to Isengard, but Radagast also unwittingly rescues him by sending an eagle to report news to Saruman.

The only other Nazghûl individually known apart from the Witch-King of Angmar and the only one whose name is known. In life, Khâmul was one of the nine Kings of men seduced by the power of the One Ring. In his case, he was a King of the Easterlings in life, but now a loyal servant to Sauron and second only to the Witch-King in authority among the Nazghûl. Just as the Witch-King ruled over Minas Morgul, Khamúl ruled over Dol Guldur, in the North.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When he asks about Baggins to Farmer Maggot, the farmer essentially tells him to buzz off. According to Maggot, Khamúl then made sound that sounded somewhat like a laugh before riding off. Presumably he was amused at the sheer gall of the Hobbit to think he could threaten a Nazghûl.

* CrypticBackgroundReference: A shadowy rider, strongly implied to be a Nazghûl, with a similar description to Khamúl rides up to Erebor and offers Dáin Ironfoot an alliance with Sauron if he'd deliver them Baggins ([[DidYouJustFlipOffChthulhu Dáin refuses]], but it's unclear if this is Khamúl himself, another Nazghûl or even another dark emissary of Sauron like the Mouth of Sauron.

* DragonAscendant: He's the Witch-King's dragon (who's subsequently Sauron's Dragon). After the Witch-King falls in Pelennor Fields, he becomes the leader of the remaining 8 Nazghûl, leading them against Aragorn's forces in the Black Gate.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Gaffer Gamgi says he spoke with "some kind of foreign tone" and Maggot says he sounded "queer", which either refers to the odd, unnatural manner Nazghûl speak or possibly to Khamúl's Easterling origin (I.e he may still speak with a Rhún accent).

* BackFromTheDead: He was properly dead from the fight with the Balrog, but his Vala bosses dropped him back on top of the mountain where he died 'cause he's not allowed to stay dead until he's finished the job with Sauron.

[[folder: Khâmul]]

The only other Nazghûl individually known apart from the Witch-King of Angmar and the only one whose name is known. In life, Khâmul was one of the nine Kings of men seduced by the power of the One Ring. In his case, he was a King of the Easterlings in life, but now a loyal servant to Sauron and second only to the Witch-King in authority among the Nazghûl. Just as the Witch-King ruled over Minas Morgul, Khâmul ruled over Dol Guldur, in the North.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When he asks about Baggins to Farmer Maggot, the farmer essentially tells him to buzz off. According to Maggot, Khâmul then made sound that sounded somewhat like a laugh before riding off. Presumably he was amused at the sheer gall of the Hobbit to think he could threaten a Nazghûl.

* EvilDetectingDog: Maggot's dogs (who are normally very ferocious) are cowering in terror when Khâmul rides up.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: It is mentioned the temperature seems to drop severely whenever Khâmul arrives.
* TheFaceless: Khâmul doesn't even have red eyes like the Witch-King.

* KnightOfCerebus: The story is fairly light-hearted in the preceding chapters in the Shire. Khâmul is the first servant of Sauron to make a appearance in the story, and with him he brings a foreboding dread that will acompany the entire narrative.

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Khâmul is the Ringwraith who tracks down the Ring to the Shire during ''Fellowship of the Ring'' and who hunts Frodo during the early chapters. Frodo makes note he keeps finding them no matter how many detours they take.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: As the Lord of Dol Guldur, Khâmul was tasked with commanding Sauron's northern forces, which attacked King Thranduil's woodland realms, Mirkwood, Lórien (which resulted in the Battle Under the Trees, which resulted in a great deal of the forest going down in flames) and may even have a hand in the Battle of the Dale, in which the Sauron-allied Easterlings stormed Dale and the gates of Erebor. But since the focus of Lord of the Rings is in the West, we only get rare offhand mentions to this.

[[folder: Ugluk]]
The captain of a company of Uruk-hai whom Saruman sent to search the area of Amon Hen. He and his orcs kill Boromir and abduct Merry and Pippin. Probably the most detailed orc character in the trilogy.

* BadBoss: Ugluk openly threatens the lesser orcs under his command with execution (and tends to cut a few up whenever things go wrong.)
* BadassBoast: His Uruk-hai clearly think of themselves as a superior cadre.
--> '''Ugluk:''' We are the fighting Uruk-hai! We serve the White Hand - the Hand that gives us man's flesh to eat!
* EnemyCivilWar: He's got a mixed group of Uruk-hai, orcs from Mordor, and Moria-goblins in his command. The factions come to blows a couple of times.
* HiddenDepths: Saruman obviously didn't choose Ugluk on an idle whim. Like all Uruk-hai, he regards himself as an elite BloodKnight: but he's also a capable tactician, skilled in the orcish art of healing, and knows an awful lot about the politics behind all this hobbit-snatching.
* ImplacableMan: He sets a pace of travel that's right at the limit of orcish endurance.
* LargeAndInCharge: The Uruk-hai are considerably larger than other orcs, and Ugluk is described as one of the largest.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The narration indicates that after Merry and Pippin managed to escape, Eomer confronted Ugluk in a duel to the death.
* PragmaticVillainy: He mends the head wound that Merry received at Amon Hen, so that Merry can be forced to run rather than being carried.
* VillainousValor: While some other orcs in his company attempt to flee, he fights to the last.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mouth of Sauron]]

The Lieutenant of Barad-dûr, an evil Man of the same high race as Aragorn who serves as Sauron's herald. The Mouth meets the forces of Rohan and Gondor before the final battle of the War of the Ring and tries to convince the remaining Fellowship that Frodo is a captive and at Sauron's mercy.

* AssInAmbassador: He spends the entire "negotiation" insulting Aragorn and Gandalf, implying the torture of Frodo, and demanding that all of the West immediately surrender to Sauron.
* ColdBloodedTorture: From his dialogue, one gets the impression that he's the one in charge of actually doing this to people who have offended Sauron in some manner.
* DiplomaticImpunity: Appeals to this while taunting the good guys:
--> "Where such laws hold it is the custom for heralds to use less insolence."
* DirtyCoward: Freaks out when threatened, and ultimately turns and runs when given a DeathGlare.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: 'His name is remembered in no tale for [[NameAmnesia he himself had forgotten it]], and he said "I am the Mouth of Sauron."'
* EvilSorcerer: He's learned the Black Arts (Morgul) from Sauron, which is the extent that Men can learn "magic" at all in Middle-Earth.
* GigglingVillain: Not "giggling" per se, but he laughs incessantly at Aragorn and Gandalf's terms.
* HellishHorse: Rides one, in contrast to the Black Riders who ride ordinary black horses stolen from Rohan.
* IShallTauntYou: Pretty much his whole "negotiation" with Gandalf.
%%* MouthOfSauron: TropeNamer
* NameAmnesia: Narration discloses that Sauron's spokesman had long forgotten his own name; he introduces himself to the emissaries of the West by his function, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Mouth of Sauron]].
* OhCrap: When Gandalf rejects his terms, he starts raving, but when the other representatives of the Free Folk give him a DeathGlare, he turns tail and rides breakneck back to the Morannon.
* SmugSnake: He's quite arrogant.
* WizardsLiveLonger: He's really old, old enough to have [[NameAmnesia completely forgotten his original name]]. Whether his own Black Arts or Sauron's are responsible, he's way past his time.

[[folder:Shelob]]

A monstrous demonic thing in spider shape, the mother of the Spiders of Mirkwood featured in ''The Hobbit'', and the last surviving offspring of Ungoliant from ''The Silmarillion'', who spins her deadly webs in a dark cave in the mountains of Mordor. Shelob is Sauron's "cat" — he doesn't control her, but lets her prey on would-be intruders (and many unlucky Orcs). Gollum leads Frodo and Sam into her lair.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Gimli. The fact that Legolas' father kept Gimli's father captive in ''The Hobbit'' doesn't help.

* BadassBoast: When Saruman's lackeys mock Frodo and company when they return to the Shire, Pippin lets them know who they're dealing with.

* OhCrap: Realizing that his men failed to confiscate Gandalf's staff. In ''The Unfinished Tales'', Tolkien's notes reveal he had a run in with the Nazgûl while he was on his way to see Saruman - who they had just been interrogating on the whereabouts of the Shire - and was so terrified that he revealed Saruman had lied to them.

* AxCrazy: Much of Saurons' perceived motiveless malice can be explained by him being batshit crazy. While Tolkien considered Morgoth the madder of the two due to being an OmnicidalManiac, Sauron is no shining example of sanity either and has long abandoned any constructive goals he might once have held. His plan to conquer Middle-Earth and run it into the ground stems from overwhelming, impotent rage at how life has turned out for him, and while he is often capable of taking AFormYouAreComfortableWith when it suits his purposes, behind these fair-forms is an entity consumed with self-loathing and hatred for all things well beyond the point of reason. The ''slightest'' rejection or criticism can provoke him to torture and kill you even if it serves no purpose to do so (or is even counter-productive to his larger plans) and well before the end he loses the ability to feel any genuine emotion beyond anger, hatred and fear.

* BigGood: He was the most powerful and respected of the Istar and was considred their leader until he had a FaceHeelTurn sometime before the story starts and Gandalf had to take over.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: Tries to invoke this by boasting he's not just white, but many colours. His [[BewareTheSuperman terrible actions upon Middle Earth]] by assisting Sauron, demonstrate to cast and audience alike, otherwise.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: He's not a Valar, not a Maiar, not a Man, not an Elf. What he is is up for debate, but one thing's for sure, he's the only one like him that we see.

* InexplicablyAwesome: He can banish evil trees, barrow-wights, and it's implied that even Nazgûl. Also, he can apparently teleport, the Ring has no effect over him, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has some damn catchy songs.]] It is notable that even the Valar are unable to understand exactly what or who Tom is. It is said that after immediately they had created the world, they discovered, much to their puzzlement, that Tom already existed in it. The Valar were all sure that they were not responsible for creating Tom, and therefore could not explain his existence; he just was ''there'' all of a sudden.

Denethor is the Steward of Gondor, ruling the nation from Minas Tirith in the absence of the King. He is used to being in charge, and does not like the idea of having to give up power to the (possibly) rightful claimant to the throne. Denethor denies Aragorn's kingship on the basis that he is not Anárion's heir, whom the council of Gondorian nobles has always held the be only proper holder of the title 'King of Gondor.' Aragorn does descent from Anárion through Fíriel, daughter of King Ondoher of Gondor, but he is not a direct male-line descendant.

* {{Foil}}: to his brother Boromir. They have very different ideologies in the book and make very different choices, most notably with the Ring. Although the brothers loved each other dearly, Faramir knew Boromir well enough to guess that the Ring found him easy prey.

** Word of God also has it that the Steward family is somehow descended from Anárion (Elendil's second son and Isildur's brother) - probably through a daughter since they have no claim to the throne. That would make them far ''far'' away descendant of Elros Half-Elven and ultimately Lúthien, like Aragorn.

* AdaptedOut: The three chapters where he appears were completely left out of the film (his name isn't even mentionned), although a few of his lines were given to Treebeard in the extended cut of ''The Two Towers''.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's one of the bearers of the three Elven Rings (Nenya the Ring of Water), and has kept Lothlórien free of stain for centuries with it. She also regularly assists in repelling Orc attacks against her realm and during the War of the Ring, she and Celeborn marshal their forces and cross the Anduin to lay siege to the armies of Dol Guldur where, following a long battle, Celeborn captures the fortress and Galadriel throws down it's walls and purifies it of it's evil.

* RoyalBlood: Galadriel is of quite a complex mixed royal Elven heritage. She is the only daughter of Finarfin, who was at the time of her birth a prince of the Noldor who eventually ascended to be the High King of the Noldor in the Undying Lands. Finarfin himself is of both Noldorin blood (from his father Finwë's side) and Vanyarin blood (from his mother Indis' side). Also, Galadriel's mother and Finarfin's wife is Eärwen who (being the daughter of Olwë) was also a princess of the Teleri in the Undying Lands. Therefore, despite being identified as a Noldorin Elf, she is actually descended from the royalty of three separate Elven houses and is really part Noldor, part Vanyar and part Teleri. This is most likely how she got her infamously beautiful silver-gold hair when the Noldor are usually identified as being dark haired. The gold would be from her Vanyarin heritage and the silver from her Teleri heritage.

* BackFromTheDead: He was properly dead from the fight with the Balrog, but his Valar bosses dropped him back on top of the mountain where he died 'cause he's not allowed to stay dead until he's finished the job with Sauron.

** Ironically, his escapades come to a complete halt when he can’t figure out how to open the West-gate of Moria (and even if he had figured out that it can be opened from the inside simply by pushing it, he wouldn't have the strength to do so). In fact, he’s said to be starving, as all the food (along with all of the aforementioned Orcs) is in east Moria — and then a certain Fellowship comes blundering in…

* SoleSurvivor: Of the clan of Stoor Hobbits living beside the Anduin river. (Not through disaster, but because the Stoors migrated north and assimilated into the Shire.)

** Ironically, his escapades come to a complete halt when he can’t figure out how to open the West-gate of Moria (although, given that this is the same gate that defeated ''Sauron himself'' millennia before, this is more a testament to the [[HiddenBadass badassery of the gate]] than anything else). In fact, he’s said to be starving, as all the food (along with all of the aforementioned Orcs) is in east Moria — and then a certain Fellowship comes blundering in…

* KissingCousins: Somewhat justifiably. Although he married a first cousin, the fact that she's a first cousin ''sixty-seven times removed'' makes it something of a moot point from a genetic standpoint.[note]In case you're confused, this sort of thing can only happen if your cousin is 2700 years old.[/note]

* KissingCousins: Somewhat justifiably. Although he married a first cousin, the fact that she's a first cousin ''sixty-seven times removed'' makes it something of a moot point from a genetic standpoint.