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* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: Like anything to do with Ents, Treebeard's discussion to join the war would have taken quite a bit longer. Saruman's burning of Fangorn sped that up significantly.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Hmm, let's have a look:
** He knew the smell of dwarves on Bilbo the instant the latter came within range of him and correctly deduced it was Thorin in the same instant.
** He decides against letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone because he deems it too big a gamble and attempts to kill Bilbo right there.
** While he was first playing with the dwarves when he was hunting them, he ultimately goes straight for Thorin. Without Thorin, [[KeystoneArmy the rest of the Companionship will fail]].
** When he is burning down Laketown, the Dwarvin ballista is nowhere to be seen, implying that Smaug knew that the weapon was the only way to stop him and burned it down. [[spoiler: Too bad Bard found another solution to taking him down.]]
** He knew the smell of dwarves on Bilbo the instant the latter came within range of him and correctly deduced it was Thorin in the same instant.
** He decides against letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone because he deems it too big a gamble and attempts to kill Bilbo right there.
** While he was first playing with the dwarves when he was hunting them, he ultimately goes straight for Thorin. Without Thorin, [[KeystoneArmy the rest of the Companionship will fail]].
** When he is burning down Laketown, the Dwarvin ballista is nowhere to be seen, implying that Smaug knew that the weapon was the only way to stop him and burned it down. [[spoiler: Too bad Bard found another solution to taking him down.]]
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* DumbMuscle: With a degree of variation. Tom seems way dim compared to the others, while the others, at least, are particularly GenreSavvy. Tom also has unfocused eyes, [[AmbiguousDisorder possibly implying other difficulties]].
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* DumbMuscle: With a degree of variation. Tom seems way dim compared to the others, while the others, at least, are particularly GenreSavvy.savvy. Tom also has unfocused eyes, [[AmbiguousDisorder possibly implying other difficulties]].
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* GenreSavvy: William reminds the others to hurry up because dawn is approaching and he doesn't fancy being turned to stone. Also Bert figures out what Bilbo is up to, when Bilbo is trying to stall for time by TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. He rhetorically asks if Bilbo thought that he didn't know what he was up to? And bluntly states that Bilbo was playing them for fools. Unfortunately for him and the other two, by then it is too late, dawn had arrived, and Gandalf appears to proclaim that "The Dawn shall take you all!"
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* GenreSavvy: When he sees the elven swords, he orders the dwarves killed pretty much immediately. Unfortunately, he's not quite quick enough.
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[[folder:Beorn]]
!!Beorn
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
!!Beorn
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
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!!Beorn
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!!Durin's Bane, a Balrog of Morgoth
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:'''
->'''Appears in:'''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain
A Balrog of Morgoth, a monster of the
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy:BigRedDevil: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.effectively this [[IncendiaryExponent on fire.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot * DarkIsEvil: The parts of him that aren't ''on fire'' are black and shadowy and he lives in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves becauseone of the Orcs.
deepest, darkest places of Middle-Earth.
*GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form EldritchAbomination: At least, you could tell that Sauron's minions were warped versions of their original selves. This demon is vicious, one of many "that should not see the light of day".
* EvilIsBurningHot: Balrogs are some of the most feared creatures in Middle-Earth for good reason. They served Sauron's old boss before the Third Age andhe dislikes Dwarves are all {{Hero Killer}}s. Even the goblins are terrified of it.
* FallenAngel: Believe it or not, that demon who just snared Gandalf andOrcs. On just happens to have a sword and whip, [[spoiler:belonged to a race of hyper-intelligent warriors from hell that made the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind:Ringwraiths look like pansies. He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, same order of being as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featuredGandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
and Sauron]].
*ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, InformedAbility: Not outright brought up, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
it speaks a counterspell to Gandalf, so it is reasonable that in both the book and film, it can speak English and other languages and is just roaring for fear.
*ShellShockedVeteran: KnightOfCerebus: The story was already serious, but he upped the ante and paved the way for the Fellowship's breaking by bringing down Gandalf. (Of course, Gandalf [[BackFromTheDead got better.]]) It also introduced the epic one-on-one fights that would occur later in the story.
* LargeAndInCharge: Much larger than the orcscaged and tortured his people for sport, trolls in Moria, and they seem to be almost as afraid of him as the Fellowship is. In the Creator/PeterJackson films, Durin's Bane is nearly twenty feet tall.
* PlayingWithFire: The movie makes it looks like he'snow the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home providesliterally a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close demon of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
flame. And [[CastingAShadow shadow]].
*YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle RasputinianDeath: Falls down a deep pit along with him in bear form which allow Gandalf, as they try to stab one another as they plummet down to the Company to reach bottom. Once they land, they are immediately submerged, carried down the forest without resistance.stream presumably, until they reached the base of a mountain, climb the [[EndlessCorridor Endless Stair]] to the peak of Celebdil, where they fought until Gandalf manages to pierce its heart, causing it to fall down to its death.
* TheLeader: Although the goblins are afraid of it, the Balrog seems to see them as guards, given that he tolerated them when they arrived in Moria.
* WhipItGood: He uses a flaming whip [[DualWield in conjunction with]] a FlamingSword.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy:
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because
*
* EvilIsBurningHot: Balrogs are some of the most feared creatures in Middle-Earth for good reason. They served Sauron's old boss before the Third Age and
* FallenAngel: Believe it or not, that demon who just snared Gandalf and
* LastOfHisKind:
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured
*
*
* LargeAndInCharge: Much larger than the orcs
* PlayingWithFire: The movie makes it looks like he's
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides
*
* TheLeader: Although the goblins are afraid of it, the Balrog seems to see them as guards, given that he tolerated them when they arrived in Moria.
* WhipItGood: He uses a flaming whip [[DualWield in conjunction with]] a FlamingSword.
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!!Treebeard
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
!!Treebeard
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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!!Smaug the Golden
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->'''Appears in:'''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares
->''"My teeth are swords! My claws are spears! My wings are a '''HURRICANE!'''"''
A massive, ancient, and powerful fire drake from the far north of Middle-Earth, with an ego and greed to match. Destroyed the city of Dale and conquered the kingdom of Erebor for
Treebeard, or Fangorn
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
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* AchillesHeel: There's a gap in Smaug's scales, made when Bard's ancestor tried to shoot him down when he first attacked Erebor. He missed his target but broke off one of the scales, exposing the flesh underneath.
* AdvertisedExtra: A downplayed example for both films he appears in. For ''Desolation'', while he was purposely mostly kept out of the advertising to save his full appearance for the film's release itself, he's nevertheless one of the two eponymous characters but doesn't even appear until relatively late into the film. And for ''Battle of the Five Armies'', he's once again for the most part kept out of the advertising, but his appearance on the film's theatrical poster counts, considering [[spoiler: he only has a handful of scenes before dying.]]
* AxCrazy: He enjoys killing people, a trait most emphasised in his initial reason for attacking Laketown, where he was going to slaughter everyone simply ForTheEvulz.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Smaug takes some pleasure in barbecuing literally everything that opposes him. Or vaguely related to those who oppose him.
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He had it coming.]]
* AttentionWhore: Quite a few shades of this, which makes him easy to stall. Bilbo exploits this by heaping him with flattery and overblown titles (and makes up some for himself, to satisfy Smaug's curiosity), which both saves his life and gives Thorin and the rest of the company time to get over their fear of the dragon and come up with a plan to kill Smaug.
* BadassBaritone:Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
Terrible enough to make your hair stand on end and briefly paralyse Bilbo with fear.
*BadassGrandpa: BadassBoast: About 80% of his dialogue. This one probably stands out:
-->"'''''I'' am King Under the Mountain.'''"
* BerserkButton:
** Don't insult his greatness.
** Don't try to steal from him either.
** Don't mention Black Arrows, the one thing he fears that can pierce through his hide and possibly kill him either.
** Don't mention that missing scale...
* BigBad: The "chiefest and greatest calamity" of the age. [[spoiler: At least until his death early in ''The Battle of the Five Armies''. However, even after his destruction, his influence is still felt throughout the rest of the movie, particularly on Thorin.]]
* BreakThemByTalking:
** Tries very hard to do this with Bilbo and while Smaug doesn't completely manage, he does get under the hobbit's skin.
** Does this regarding Thorin's motivations, with the added bonus of being right about a lot of it.
* BreathWeapon: He's a dragon, you kinda have to expect he can breathe fire.
* CardCarryingVillain: Completely immoral, incredibly greedy (he literally has mountains worth of coins in his lair, and he will not part with even ''one'' of them) utterly malicious and has an ego bigger than his stature, such soold that he refers seems to enjoy being called "Greatest of all Calamities" or "The Tyrannical", amongst other evil nicknames. Justified because Smaug happens to be an AttentionWhore of the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf.highest calibre, so being reminded of his power is delicious to him.
** There's his boast "I am fire. I am death."
*BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle CantTakeCriticism: Virtually the mirror image of his [[AttentionWhore Attention Whoring]], and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting overlaps with his forest. Pippin even points biggest BerserkButton. In short, he simply won't tolerate ''any'' disrespect, no matter how slight. Thorin exploits this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caringmaneuver Smaug into position for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in responsedwarves' plan to kill him, quite easily manipulating him with some rather feeble taunts.
* CirclingMonologue: Does this to Bilbo about his role; impressive given his massive size.
* TheCorruption: In thedirect attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name isthird film, it's mentioned that the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes afact that Smaug has brooded over the treasure so long time has had an actual effect on the gold, making it cursed and that is partly the reason for Thorin falling to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."Dragon Sickness."
*PlantPerson: Essentially CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Gets impaled with a Black Arrow just as he was about to unleash another burst of fire. It's heavily implied the interrupted plume backfired and messily burned up his insides.]]
* CruelMercy:
** His declaration that he's going to destroy Laketown actually gets Bilbo to come out of hiding, and Bilbo's vain attempt to talk him out of it actually prompts Smaug to not kill him so he can watch the town burn.
** He also contemplates allowing Bilbo to take the Arkenstone, just so he can watch it destroy Thorin as it did Thrór. He ultimately decides against it, though.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Hmm, let's have a look:
** He knew the smell of dwarves on Bilbo the instant the latter came within range of him and correctly deduced it was Thorin in the same instant.
** He decides against letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone because he deems it too bigmobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awokena gamble and attempts to kill Bilbo right there.
** While he was first playing with thefirst generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard anddwarves when he was hunting them, he ultimately goes straight for Thorin. Without Thorin, [[KeystoneArmy the rest of the living Ents decide Companionship will fail]].
** When he is burning down Laketown, the Dwarvin ballista is nowhere to'go be seen, implying that Smaug knew that the weapon was the only way to war' stop him and burned it down. [[spoiler: Too bad Bard found another solution to taking him down.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: In ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' He is truly gone when Thorin finally rids himself from Smaug's shadow and corrupting influence towards the end of the movie]].
* TheDreaded: There's a reason nobody ever tried to kill him after he invaded Erebor...
* DistractedByTheShiny: Not only is Smaug greedy, but he seems borderline mesmerized if introduced to a large golden object, especially when he sees a gold statue as big as he is.
* EvilIsBigger: He's byflooding Isengard.far the largest character in the films.
* EvilIsHammy: He's the "chiefest and greatest calamity" and obviously takes it stride.
* EvilIsPetty: His ego means that anyone who transgresses him, however slightly, must suffer DisproportionateRetribution.
* EvilGloating: Most of his dialogue with Bilbo.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Not surprising, considering he's voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
* EyeAwaken: [[spoiler: At the end of ''An Unexpected Journey''.]]
* EyeLightsOut: [[spoiler: When Smaug dies.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's almost civil towards Bilbo before he explodes into rage-mode.
* FangsAreEvil: He even likens them to swords.
* ForTheEvulz: His initial motive for attacking Laketown, compared to the book, is less about revenge for being robbed and more so because he likes killing, given that trying to talk him out of it actually makes him ''MORE'' eager to do it.
* GeniusBruiser: A unstoppable machine of war, but also cunning enough to deduce pretty much everything about Bilbo on the spot.
* GiantFlyer: He's a dragon '''twice''' the size of a Boeing 747, according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr7DSEHcic this video]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ''The Desolation of Smaug'' shows that not only do his eyes glow, they also seem to emit beams of light, much like in the Rankin-Bass animation, albeit with a more subtle effect.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Downplayed. According to WordOfGod, Smaug does have an element of loneliness in him after sitting in all that gold alone for so many years, furthering his need for stimulation and entertainment. It explains why he was willing to play Bilbo's game without destroying the hobbit then and there.
* {{Greed}}: The reason he drove the dwarves out of their home.
* {{Hypocrite}}: A lot of the things he says about Thorin and the dwarves could easily be used to describe him. Such as them being drawn to treasure like flies or calling Thorin an usurper with a foul purpose. Naturally, he seems oblivious to this.
* IAmTheNoun: "I am fire. I am... ''death''."
* IWillShowYouX: [[JumpScare "REVENGE?!]] [[VillainousBreakdown REVENGE?!]] '''I, WILL SHOW YOU ,''''''''REVENGE!"'''''
* IronicEcho: This is what nearly breaks Bilbo -- Smaug refers to the One Ring as "made of gold...but far more precious." ''Precious'' is, of course, what Gollum calls the Ring, [[CallForward as does Bilbo himself in]] ''Film/LordOfTheRings.''
* IShallTauntYou: Calls himself "King Under The Mountain" (the title given to the Dwarven King of Erebor) to press Thorin's BerserkButton.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When pretty much your entire personality falls under the heading of {{Pride}} and {{Greed}}, this is a given. He makes it very clear that he considers the Mountain and its treasure to be his property, and doesn't even bother justifying his actions or cruelty.
* ItAmusedMe: A combination of enjoying flattery and this trope makes him talk with Bilbo rather than killing him immediately. As soon as he gets bored with the "little game", however...
* {{Jerkass}}: Aside from the obvious with his murdering hundreds of innocent lives if they stand between him and treasure, or to make somebody else watch, given the chance he takes time to rub in his victims' helplessness. This highlighted when he sees Bard's son with him in the tower he's trying to shoot him from and taunts Bard about how he won't be able to save his son and he will burn with the rest of the town.
* TheJuggernaut: The most that Thorin's Company manage to do to Smaug is slow him down and ''severely'' piss him off.
* {{Kaiju}}: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr7DSEHcic this video]] from [[WordOfGod the creators]], he's twice as big as a Boeing 747. He's also powerful enough to be considered Middle Earth's answer to Godzilla.
* LargeHam: What did you expect from a giant talking dragon who's a {{narcissist}} and loves EvilGloating and {{Badass Boast}}s?
* LightningBruiser: He's huge, and not only can he fly fast, but he can move fast on foot and can easily smash rock pillars as big as he is.
* LightIsNotGood: Less so than in the book (largely due to the dim lighting of his cave in the movie), but he still radiates a fiery glow and is eyes are subtle searchlights, as a reference to the animated movie.
* LogicalWeakness: During the climax of the movie in the giant gold-smelting furnace room, when he's about to roast Thorin, Bilbo unleashes a reservoir worth of water on him, temporarily neutralizing his fire-breath... though this only works for a short time.
* MacGuffinGuardian: Guards the treasure of Erebor, and by extension the Arkenstone.
* TheMagnificent: "The Golden", "The Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities", "Chiefest and greatest calamity of our age"...
* ManipulativeBastard: Excels at this. He's perfectly happy to talk to Bilbo for a while and turn all his fears and doubts against him. He refrains from killing Bilbo because he wants him to watch Laketown burn. He even briefly considers letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone to Thorin, just for the pleasure of watching it drive Thorin mad with greed. He ultimately decides that doing so isn't worth the risk.
* MeaningfulName:
** His means "to squeeze through a hole" in Old Germanic.
** Then of course there's the fact he produces smog. And is smug.
** In Polish, the word for "dragon" is "smok".
* MightMakesRight: His claim to the treasure of Erebor is based on the simple logic that he flew in and took it, and (then or now) there is no one that can stop him.
* MoodSwinger: He seems to frequently zig-zag between a nearly FauxAffablyEvil politeness and rampaging wrath.
* MoneyFetish: One the size of Erebor.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Smaug the Terrible.
* {{Narcissist}}: He clearly enjoys Bilbo's feigned flattery, despite being well-aware of who sent him and why. He doesn't think for a second it's true, but gives Bilbo an indefinite stay of incineration as long as he keeps it up.
* NighInvulnerability: Dwarven black arrows are said to be able to kill a dragon. It took three just to knock off one of his scales. During the battle within Erebor, he's bathed in molten gold and just shakes it off like it's merely really hot water.
* OhCrap: He has one once he realizes the giant golden statue he has been staring slack jawed at is still molten.
* OneHitKill: Bard's black arrow kills Smaug outright in the third film.
* OneManArmy: Described as "the chiefest and greatest calamity of the age", Smaug proves he's a monster ''and'' a badass in one stroke, by wiping out a prosperous human town and its armed forces and ''then'' destroying Erebor, in spite of the hundreds of dwarven warriors that opposed him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedWith in that he does not go through with it. Dragons will never part with their treasure once they claim it, not even a single coin. So when Smaug tells Bilbo that he's ''almost'' tempted to let him take the Arkenstone, it really puts in perspective of just how bad and corruptible the King's Jewel is to Thorin.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In bodyshape, at least, he's a wyvern (four limbs -- a pair of bat like wings and hind legs). This is probably due to the design team's desire to present an anatomically "correct" (albeit fantastic) creature -- no reptilian species has 6 limbs. This attention to detail was present during the creation of Smaug's precursors, the Fell Beasts, and the WETA team were keen to present a creature that could believably become airborne. Concept artist John Howe was even asked to remove the "elbow spikes" he had drawn in as these don't appear in nature. Smaug's body proportion and quadrupedal walking gait seem to have been designed with the giant ornithocheiroid pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous period in mind, with disproportionately gigantic, winged forelimbs coupled with a relatively small body and hind-legs. His head resembles that of a monitor lizard.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Very lizard like in appearance, utterly heartless and destructive.
* PowerEchoes: His voice is underscored with a deep reverberating growl.
* {{Pride}}: His ego's bigger than he is. Since he doesn't actually do anything with his unimaginable wealth, this seems as likely a motivation for his hoarding as pure {{Greed}}, and his reaction to theft is that of one who's been insulted rather than inconvenienced in any way.
* PsychologicalCombat: As is typical for Middle-Earth dragons, Smaug loves this as much as causing physical destruction.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As a fire-breathing dragon that can generate heat comparable to that of Mount Doom, by necessity Smaug must have a hide that is extremely heat resistant. When the Dwarves try to kill him with molten gold, he of course is only mildly inconvenienced by it.
* TheScrooge: Taken UpToEleven; he literally hoards mountains of coins in his lair, and he makes it very clear that he won't part with even ''one'' of them.
* SerkisFolk: In the movie, to match his and Benedict's facial expressions. The motion capture was actually revealed to cover far more than just Benedict's face: he wore a full-body suit, having studied the movements of reptiles in zoos to move in a more reptilian way.
* {{Sloth}}: If left alone, he doesn't seem to do much beyond sleep. Not that anyone's complaining; most people are very glad that he lacks the motivation to do more than sleep on his treasure, and the thought of him joining with Sauron unsurprisingly has everyone worried.
* SmugSmiler: The shape of his mouth gives him a permanent example of this trope, though when he bares his teeth it looks like a SlasherSmile.
* SmugSnake: Powerful and unstoppable as he might be, it's very clear his ego is ''way'' too big for his own good.
* SmugSuper: But with his size and power, he has a lot to back up his claim.
* SnakeTalk:
** Briefly, as he assures Bilbo that "I will not part with a ''sss''ingle coin".
** Even before that: "Hmmm...there is ''ssss''omething about you."
* StealthyColossus: He can be real quiet and stealthy when he is not [[UnstoppableRage shaking the earth with his rage.]] At one point he is even able to go unnoticed by the dwarves while climbing above them until a loose coin falls off his scales, drawing their notice.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: His BreathWeapon is shown to be strong enough blast apart stone towers in flashbacks, but in all present-day scenes acts as pure flame with no concussive force. {{Justified}} since he's fighting inside Erebor; as much as he wants the dwarves dead, he doesn't want to destroy his treasure doing it.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His eyes are gold, reflecting his magical nature.
* TemptingFate: Boasting about how nothing can even damage him makes [[spoiler: his death at the hands of a Black Arrow less than a minute later all the more satisfying.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers for ''Battle of the Five Armies'' make it pretty clear he won't have a lengthy role in the film, [[spoiler: given he's killed as the DiscOneFinalBoss, but he has a VERY lasting influence on Thorin.]]
* TreasureGuardingDragon: All dragons are said to covet gold. Smaug probably [[UpToEleven more than the average dragon]].
* UnstoppableRage: Which just gets worse and worse as the dwarves humiliate and insult him.
* VillainousBreakdown: He's a calm, confident, arrogant bastard, up until [[spoiler: he's actually ''injured'' by the dwarves. Then he goes berserk.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: His comments about Thorin's greed and that he judged Bilbo's life "worth nothing" prove right on the money given that not only did it take a WhatTheHellHero for Thorin to even enter the mountain, but when he entered he actually held a sword to him when he didn't have the Arkenstone.
* VisualPun: Though not used in the film, one of Smaug's titles is "Smaug the Golden", named after his vast wealth. One of the dwarves' attempts to kill him is to drown him in molten gold. Smaug emerges out of the bath completely coated in liquid gold, thus truly making him Smaug the Golden.
* VolcanicVeins: The gaps between the scales on his throat and belly glow red when he's about to breathe flame.
* WouldHurtAChild: He couldn't care less that he is about to burn a village full of children. In fact, he even taunts Bard about the fact that his son is going to burn in the flames.
* YankTheDogsChain: Does this to Bilbo when he noticing him going after the Arkenstone by keeping it out of his reach.
* YouAreTooLate: Gandalf organized the dwarves in the hopes of stopping Smaug from joining Sauron's forces. Smaug's dialogue to Bilbo reveals that he's well aware that Sauron has returned and that if he ''does'' come, he would gladly join the dark lord just ForTheEvulz.
* AdvertisedExtra: A downplayed example for both films he appears in. For ''Desolation'', while he was purposely mostly kept out of the advertising to save his full appearance for the film's release itself, he's nevertheless one of the two eponymous characters but doesn't even appear until relatively late into the film. And for ''Battle of the Five Armies'', he's once again for the most part kept out of the advertising, but his appearance on the film's theatrical poster counts, considering [[spoiler: he only has a handful of scenes before dying.]]
* AxCrazy: He enjoys killing people, a trait most emphasised in his initial reason for attacking Laketown, where he was going to slaughter everyone simply ForTheEvulz.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Smaug takes some pleasure in barbecuing literally everything that opposes him. Or vaguely related to those who oppose him.
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: He had it coming.]]
* AttentionWhore: Quite a few shades of this, which makes him easy to stall. Bilbo exploits this by heaping him with flattery and overblown titles (and makes up some for himself, to satisfy Smaug's curiosity), which both saves his life and gives Thorin and the rest of the company time to get over their fear of the dragon and come up with a plan to kill Smaug.
* BadassBaritone:
*
-->"'''''I'' am King Under the Mountain.'''"
* BerserkButton:
** Don't insult his greatness.
** Don't try to steal from him either.
** Don't mention Black Arrows, the one thing he fears that can pierce through his hide and possibly kill him either.
** Don't mention that missing scale...
* BigBad: The "chiefest and greatest calamity" of the age. [[spoiler: At least until his death early in ''The Battle of the Five Armies''. However, even after his destruction, his influence is still felt throughout the rest of the movie, particularly on Thorin.]]
* BreakThemByTalking:
** Tries very hard to do this with Bilbo and while Smaug doesn't completely manage, he does get under the hobbit's skin.
** Does this regarding Thorin's motivations, with the added bonus of being right about a lot of it.
* BreathWeapon: He's a dragon, you kinda have to expect he can breathe fire.
* CardCarryingVillain: Completely immoral, incredibly greedy (he literally has mountains worth of coins in his lair, and he will not part with even ''one'' of them) utterly malicious and has an ego bigger than his stature, such so
** There's his boast "I am fire. I am death."
*
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response
* CirclingMonologue: Does this to Bilbo about his role; impressive given his massive size.
* TheCorruption: In the
* OverlyLongName: His real name is
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a
*
* CruelMercy:
** His declaration that he's going to destroy Laketown actually gets Bilbo to come out of hiding, and Bilbo's vain attempt to talk him out of it actually prompts Smaug to not kill him so he can watch the town burn.
** He also contemplates allowing Bilbo to take the Arkenstone, just so he can watch it destroy Thorin as it did Thrór. He ultimately decides against it, though.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Hmm, let's have a look:
** He knew the smell of dwarves on Bilbo the instant the latter came within range of him and correctly deduced it was Thorin in the same instant.
** He decides against letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone because he deems it too big
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken
** While he was first playing with the
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and
** When he is burning down Laketown, the Dwarvin ballista is nowhere to
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: In ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' He is truly gone when Thorin finally rids himself from Smaug's shadow and corrupting influence towards the end of the movie]].
* TheDreaded: There's a reason nobody ever tried to kill him after he invaded Erebor...
* DistractedByTheShiny: Not only is Smaug greedy, but he seems borderline mesmerized if introduced to a large golden object, especially when he sees a gold statue as big as he is.
* EvilIsBigger: He's by
* EvilIsHammy: He's the "chiefest and greatest calamity" and obviously takes it stride.
* EvilIsPetty: His ego means that anyone who transgresses him, however slightly, must suffer DisproportionateRetribution.
* EvilGloating: Most of his dialogue with Bilbo.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Not surprising, considering he's voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch.
* EyeAwaken: [[spoiler: At the end of ''An Unexpected Journey''.]]
* EyeLightsOut: [[spoiler: When Smaug dies.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's almost civil towards Bilbo before he explodes into rage-mode.
* FangsAreEvil: He even likens them to swords.
* ForTheEvulz: His initial motive for attacking Laketown, compared to the book, is less about revenge for being robbed and more so because he likes killing, given that trying to talk him out of it actually makes him ''MORE'' eager to do it.
* GeniusBruiser: A unstoppable machine of war, but also cunning enough to deduce pretty much everything about Bilbo on the spot.
* GiantFlyer: He's a dragon '''twice''' the size of a Boeing 747, according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr7DSEHcic this video]].
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: ''The Desolation of Smaug'' shows that not only do his eyes glow, they also seem to emit beams of light, much like in the Rankin-Bass animation, albeit with a more subtle effect.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Downplayed. According to WordOfGod, Smaug does have an element of loneliness in him after sitting in all that gold alone for so many years, furthering his need for stimulation and entertainment. It explains why he was willing to play Bilbo's game without destroying the hobbit then and there.
* {{Greed}}: The reason he drove the dwarves out of their home.
* {{Hypocrite}}: A lot of the things he says about Thorin and the dwarves could easily be used to describe him. Such as them being drawn to treasure like flies or calling Thorin an usurper with a foul purpose. Naturally, he seems oblivious to this.
* IAmTheNoun: "I am fire. I am... ''death''."
* IWillShowYouX: [[JumpScare "REVENGE?!]] [[VillainousBreakdown REVENGE?!]] '''I, WILL SHOW YOU ,''''''''REVENGE!"'''''
* IronicEcho: This is what nearly breaks Bilbo -- Smaug refers to the One Ring as "made of gold...but far more precious." ''Precious'' is, of course, what Gollum calls the Ring, [[CallForward as does Bilbo himself in]] ''Film/LordOfTheRings.''
* IShallTauntYou: Calls himself "King Under The Mountain" (the title given to the Dwarven King of Erebor) to press Thorin's BerserkButton.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When pretty much your entire personality falls under the heading of {{Pride}} and {{Greed}}, this is a given. He makes it very clear that he considers the Mountain and its treasure to be his property, and doesn't even bother justifying his actions or cruelty.
* ItAmusedMe: A combination of enjoying flattery and this trope makes him talk with Bilbo rather than killing him immediately. As soon as he gets bored with the "little game", however...
* {{Jerkass}}: Aside from the obvious with his murdering hundreds of innocent lives if they stand between him and treasure, or to make somebody else watch, given the chance he takes time to rub in his victims' helplessness. This highlighted when he sees Bard's son with him in the tower he's trying to shoot him from and taunts Bard about how he won't be able to save his son and he will burn with the rest of the town.
* TheJuggernaut: The most that Thorin's Company manage to do to Smaug is slow him down and ''severely'' piss him off.
* {{Kaiju}}: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvr7DSEHcic this video]] from [[WordOfGod the creators]], he's twice as big as a Boeing 747. He's also powerful enough to be considered Middle Earth's answer to Godzilla.
* LargeHam: What did you expect from a giant talking dragon who's a {{narcissist}} and loves EvilGloating and {{Badass Boast}}s?
* LightningBruiser: He's huge, and not only can he fly fast, but he can move fast on foot and can easily smash rock pillars as big as he is.
* LightIsNotGood: Less so than in the book (largely due to the dim lighting of his cave in the movie), but he still radiates a fiery glow and is eyes are subtle searchlights, as a reference to the animated movie.
* LogicalWeakness: During the climax of the movie in the giant gold-smelting furnace room, when he's about to roast Thorin, Bilbo unleashes a reservoir worth of water on him, temporarily neutralizing his fire-breath... though this only works for a short time.
* MacGuffinGuardian: Guards the treasure of Erebor, and by extension the Arkenstone.
* TheMagnificent: "The Golden", "The Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities", "Chiefest and greatest calamity of our age"...
* ManipulativeBastard: Excels at this. He's perfectly happy to talk to Bilbo for a while and turn all his fears and doubts against him. He refrains from killing Bilbo because he wants him to watch Laketown burn. He even briefly considers letting Bilbo take the Arkenstone to Thorin, just for the pleasure of watching it drive Thorin mad with greed. He ultimately decides that doing so isn't worth the risk.
* MeaningfulName:
** His means "to squeeze through a hole" in Old Germanic.
** Then of course there's the fact he produces smog. And is smug.
** In Polish, the word for "dragon" is "smok".
* MightMakesRight: His claim to the treasure of Erebor is based on the simple logic that he flew in and took it, and (then or now) there is no one that can stop him.
* MoodSwinger: He seems to frequently zig-zag between a nearly FauxAffablyEvil politeness and rampaging wrath.
* MoneyFetish: One the size of Erebor.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Smaug the Terrible.
* {{Narcissist}}: He clearly enjoys Bilbo's feigned flattery, despite being well-aware of who sent him and why. He doesn't think for a second it's true, but gives Bilbo an indefinite stay of incineration as long as he keeps it up.
* NighInvulnerability: Dwarven black arrows are said to be able to kill a dragon. It took three just to knock off one of his scales. During the battle within Erebor, he's bathed in molten gold and just shakes it off like it's merely really hot water.
* OhCrap: He has one once he realizes the giant golden statue he has been staring slack jawed at is still molten.
* OneHitKill: Bard's black arrow kills Smaug outright in the third film.
* OneManArmy: Described as "the chiefest and greatest calamity of the age", Smaug proves he's a monster ''and'' a badass in one stroke, by wiping out a prosperous human town and its armed forces and ''then'' destroying Erebor, in spite of the hundreds of dwarven warriors that opposed him.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedWith in that he does not go through with it. Dragons will never part with their treasure once they claim it, not even a single coin. So when Smaug tells Bilbo that he's ''almost'' tempted to let him take the Arkenstone, it really puts in perspective of just how bad and corruptible the King's Jewel is to Thorin.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In bodyshape, at least, he's a wyvern (four limbs -- a pair of bat like wings and hind legs). This is probably due to the design team's desire to present an anatomically "correct" (albeit fantastic) creature -- no reptilian species has 6 limbs. This attention to detail was present during the creation of Smaug's precursors, the Fell Beasts, and the WETA team were keen to present a creature that could believably become airborne. Concept artist John Howe was even asked to remove the "elbow spikes" he had drawn in as these don't appear in nature. Smaug's body proportion and quadrupedal walking gait seem to have been designed with the giant ornithocheiroid pterosaurs of the late Cretaceous period in mind, with disproportionately gigantic, winged forelimbs coupled with a relatively small body and hind-legs. His head resembles that of a monitor lizard.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Very lizard like in appearance, utterly heartless and destructive.
* PowerEchoes: His voice is underscored with a deep reverberating growl.
* {{Pride}}: His ego's bigger than he is. Since he doesn't actually do anything with his unimaginable wealth, this seems as likely a motivation for his hoarding as pure {{Greed}}, and his reaction to theft is that of one who's been insulted rather than inconvenienced in any way.
* PsychologicalCombat: As is typical for Middle-Earth dragons, Smaug loves this as much as causing physical destruction.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: As a fire-breathing dragon that can generate heat comparable to that of Mount Doom, by necessity Smaug must have a hide that is extremely heat resistant. When the Dwarves try to kill him with molten gold, he of course is only mildly inconvenienced by it.
* TheScrooge: Taken UpToEleven; he literally hoards mountains of coins in his lair, and he makes it very clear that he won't part with even ''one'' of them.
* SerkisFolk: In the movie, to match his and Benedict's facial expressions. The motion capture was actually revealed to cover far more than just Benedict's face: he wore a full-body suit, having studied the movements of reptiles in zoos to move in a more reptilian way.
* {{Sloth}}: If left alone, he doesn't seem to do much beyond sleep. Not that anyone's complaining; most people are very glad that he lacks the motivation to do more than sleep on his treasure, and the thought of him joining with Sauron unsurprisingly has everyone worried.
* SmugSmiler: The shape of his mouth gives him a permanent example of this trope, though when he bares his teeth it looks like a SlasherSmile.
* SmugSnake: Powerful and unstoppable as he might be, it's very clear his ego is ''way'' too big for his own good.
* SmugSuper: But with his size and power, he has a lot to back up his claim.
* SnakeTalk:
** Briefly, as he assures Bilbo that "I will not part with a ''sss''ingle coin".
** Even before that: "Hmmm...there is ''ssss''omething about you."
* StealthyColossus: He can be real quiet and stealthy when he is not [[UnstoppableRage shaking the earth with his rage.]] At one point he is even able to go unnoticed by the dwarves while climbing above them until a loose coin falls off his scales, drawing their notice.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: His BreathWeapon is shown to be strong enough blast apart stone towers in flashbacks, but in all present-day scenes acts as pure flame with no concussive force. {{Justified}} since he's fighting inside Erebor; as much as he wants the dwarves dead, he doesn't want to destroy his treasure doing it.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His eyes are gold, reflecting his magical nature.
* TemptingFate: Boasting about how nothing can even damage him makes [[spoiler: his death at the hands of a Black Arrow less than a minute later all the more satisfying.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers for ''Battle of the Five Armies'' make it pretty clear he won't have a lengthy role in the film, [[spoiler: given he's killed as the DiscOneFinalBoss, but he has a VERY lasting influence on Thorin.]]
* TreasureGuardingDragon: All dragons are said to covet gold. Smaug probably [[UpToEleven more than the average dragon]].
* UnstoppableRage: Which just gets worse and worse as the dwarves humiliate and insult him.
* VillainousBreakdown: He's a calm, confident, arrogant bastard, up until [[spoiler: he's actually ''injured'' by the dwarves. Then he goes berserk.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: His comments about Thorin's greed and that he judged Bilbo's life "worth nothing" prove right on the money given that not only did it take a WhatTheHellHero for Thorin to even enter the mountain, but when he entered he actually held a sword to him when he didn't have the Arkenstone.
* VisualPun: Though not used in the film, one of Smaug's titles is "Smaug the Golden", named after his vast wealth. One of the dwarves' attempts to kill him is to drown him in molten gold. Smaug emerges out of the bath completely coated in liquid gold, thus truly making him Smaug the Golden.
* VolcanicVeins: The gaps between the scales on his throat and belly glow red when he's about to breathe flame.
* WouldHurtAChild: He couldn't care less that he is about to burn a village full of children. In fact, he even taunts Bard about the fact that his son is going to burn in the flames.
* YankTheDogsChain: Does this to Bilbo when he noticing him going after the Arkenstone by keeping it out of his reach.
* YouAreTooLate: Gandalf organized the dwarves in the hopes of stopping Smaug from joining Sauron's forces. Smaug's dialogue to Bilbo reveals that he's well aware that Sauron has returned and that if he ''does'' come, he would gladly join the dark lord just ForTheEvulz.
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!!Radagast the Brown
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
!!Radagast the Brown
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/k-bigpic_8315.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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!!Radagast the Brown
!!The Trolls: Bert, Tom, and William
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->'''Portrayed by:'''
->'''Appears
->'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' |
->''"Just give me
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One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from AerithAndBob: They're the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, butonly characters in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] story with ease!
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*AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was AllTrollsAreDifferent: They have a pale, fleshy skin-tone, and are more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalfhumanoid-looking and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forestsintelligent than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battletrolls of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation ''Lord of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back fromthe dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care Rings'' trilogy, speaking in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.perfect English (albeit in suitably thuggish tones).
*{{Foil}}: To Saruman. AsYouKnow: William tells the other to hurry because he doesn't want to turn into stone when the sun comes up. [[TakenForGranite Guess what happens]].
* BondVillainStupidity: Theyboth live in isolation as opposed try to wandering cook the dwarves without killing them first.
* ButtMonkey: Tom gets hit and smacked aroundMiddle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives the most by the others and by the Dwarves during the fight. Even getting hit in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for eye and the trees groin as well.
* TheCameo: Their petrified forms are stumbled upon by Frodo andanimals as his friends, company in the extended cut of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Effectively an EarlyBirdCameo, since ''Lord of the Rings'' was adapted before ''The Hobbit''.
* DumbMuscle: With a degree of variation. Tom seems way dim compared to the others, whileSaruman the others, at least, are particularly GenreSavvy. Tom also has unfocused eyes, [[AmbiguousDisorder possibly implying other difficulties]].
* EvilBrit: The stupid kind.
* ExactWords: Kíli demands the trolls ''drop'' Bilbo. They oblige and toss Bilbo right on top of him.
* GenreSavvy: William reminds the others to hurry up because dawn is approaching and he doesn't fancy being turned to stone. Also Bert figures out what Bilbo is up to, when Bilbo is trying to stall for time by TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. He rhetorically asks if Bilbo thought that he didn't know what he was up to? And bluntly states that Bilbo was playing them for fools. Unfortunately for him and the other two, by then it is too late, dawn had arrived, and Gandalf appears to proclaim that "The Dawn shall take you all!"
* IHaveYourWife: They get the dwarves to surrender by capturing Bilbo.
* TheLeader: William seems to be the leader of the trio, giving them orders. Or at least, ordering around Tom.
* LeanAndMean: Tom, compared to William and Bert.
* LethalChef: Bert is implied to be a terrible cook. His stew certainly looks disgusting.
* MightyGlacier: Trolls: Fíli and Kíli convince Bilbo that he's the best to deal withhis mind of "metal the trolls, since he's smart and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superegofast while they're slow and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
stupid (but doubtlessly strong and dangerous).
*FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers NotSoHarmless: Which they remind everyone of when they threaten to bring back a hedgehog tear Bilbo limb from near death.
limb.
*GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: InRoarBeforeBeating: They speak English perfectly well, but a vestige of their more primitive troll nature is seen when Dwalin smashes Bert on the movie, foot, and he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.lets out an outraged, bestial roar.
*NatureLover: He spends most of his time in SerkisFolk: Portrayed by Mark Hadlow, William Kircher and Peter Hambleton via motion capture.
* ShoutOut: Specifically, a ThreeStoogesShoutOut. You can't help but feel that somehow [[Film/TheThreeStooges Larry, Curly, and Moe]] made their way to Middle-earth and became trolls, what with how they act and theGreenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fitway Bert smacks Tom around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.like Moe did Curly.
*OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, StealthPun: "Lay down your arms! Or we'll rip his off!"
* TakenForGranite: When exposed to sunlight.
* TastesLikeChicken: William andhe becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's naturalTom complain that all of Bert's cooking tastes like chicken. Except for his chicken, which tastes like fish.
* TeamChef: Bert. And he'sgot a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down really pissed the side of others don't appreciate his head.
cooking.
*SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't''ToServeMan: Dwarves anyway.
* {{Villainous Glutton}}s: They have anadded sound effect, that's appetite matching their size.
* WackyWaysideTribe: They are theactor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler:first villains the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard,company encounter, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men asthey are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom quickly defeated and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Nottheir scene could easily be removed from the plot. However, that way we would miss one of the cleanest kind.
most iconic scenes of the story.
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but
*
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
*
* BondVillainStupidity: They
* ButtMonkey: Tom gets hit and smacked around
* TheCameo: Their petrified forms are stumbled upon by Frodo and
* DumbMuscle: With a degree of variation. Tom seems way dim compared to the others, while
* EvilBrit: The stupid kind.
* ExactWords: Kíli demands the trolls ''drop'' Bilbo. They oblige and toss Bilbo right on top of him.
* GenreSavvy: William reminds the others to hurry up because dawn is approaching and he doesn't fancy being turned to stone. Also Bert figures out what Bilbo is up to, when Bilbo is trying to stall for time by TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. He rhetorically asks if Bilbo thought that he didn't know what he was up to? And bluntly states that Bilbo was playing them for fools. Unfortunately for him and the other two, by then it is too late, dawn had arrived, and Gandalf appears to proclaim that "The Dawn shall take you all!"
* IHaveYourWife: They get the dwarves to surrender by capturing Bilbo.
* TheLeader: William seems to be the leader of the trio, giving them orders. Or at least, ordering around Tom.
* LeanAndMean: Tom, compared to William and Bert.
* LethalChef: Bert is implied to be a terrible cook. His stew certainly looks disgusting.
* MightyGlacier: Trolls: Fíli and Kíli convince Bilbo that he's the best to deal with
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego
*
*
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In
*
* ShoutOut: Specifically, a ThreeStoogesShoutOut. You can't help but feel that somehow [[Film/TheThreeStooges Larry, Curly, and Moe]] made their way to Middle-earth and became trolls, what with how they act and the
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
*
* TakenForGranite: When exposed to sunlight.
* TastesLikeChicken: William and
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural
* TeamChef: Bert. And he's
*
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't''
* {{Villainous Glutton}}s: They have an
* WackyWaysideTribe: They are the
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler:
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard,
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as
* WizardBeard: Not
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
!!The Great Goblin
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Abominations, disfigurations, mutilations, and repulsions... That's all you're going to find down here."'']]
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected
Patriarch of one of
-->''"Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung! You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung! You will die down here and never be found, down in the
A powerful Goblin chieftain of Goblin-town. Surprisingly [[AffablyEvil personable]] and
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, {{Acrofatic}}: Despite being about twenty times their size, he doesn't seem to be any less agile than his smaller kin.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Although his book counterpart was also a villain, the first film makes him willing to answer Azog's bounty on Thorin's head. In the book, the goblins wanted them destroyed simply because they considered them spies and a threat (even though the dwarves never wanted any trouble with the goblins).
* AdiposeRex: Big and fat and the king. Self explanatory really.
* BadBoss: While this is essentially the norm for orcs and goblins, he'sBilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Noshown sitting on some and crushing others with his feet. In the extended edition, he kills one calls him Gerontius, of his own minions during his VillainSong [[ForTheEvulz just for kicks]].
* BerserkButton: TheOld Took.
* GagNose: Sportssight of Orcrist causes him to lose his cool completely, making him opt to forgo torture in favor of killing the most ridiculously extreme nose in dwarves immediately:
--> "I know that sword! It is themovie -- Goblin Cleaver! The Biter, the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately blade that sliced a thousand necks! Slash them! Beat them! Kill them, kill them all! ''[[OffWithHisHead Cut off his head!]]''"
* BodyHorror: His "beard" isn't made of hair.
* CardCarryingVillain: Lesser goblins address him as "[[TheMagnificent Your Malevolence]]".
* CoolCrown: Which may be made of claws or teeth.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: According to the design team, his throne also acts as ajoke ''commode'', and was [[NauseaFuel set-dressed accordingly...]]
* FatBastard: Extremely so onDan Hennah.
both counts.
*HappyFlashback: FauxAffablyEvil: He appears in a acts very sweet scene added to special jolly and cordial for a sadist. The extended edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts takes this further, having him lead his goblins in a typically merry hobbit gathering.
VillainSong about how he plans on torturing and killing the dwarves for trespassing into his kingdom.
*PosthumousCharacter: FreakOut: When he sees the dwarves' elven swords.
* GeniusBruiser: Enormously strong (he effortlessly smashes his way through a bridge) and he comes across as pretty knowledgeble, knowing Thorin's history and being able to correctly identify magic swords on sight.
* GenreSavvy: When he sees the elven swords, he orders the dwarves killed pretty much immediately. Unfortunately, he's not quite quick enough.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:He handles Gandalf eviscerating him with surprising nonchalance. See MajorInjuryUnderreaction for his exact words before getting his throat slit.]]
* IWillShowYouX: In the extended addition:
-->'''Óin''': You're going to have to speak up. Your boys flattened my trumpet!\\
'''Great Goblin''': ''I'll flatten more than your TRUMPET!''
* {{Jerkass}}: Takes a moment to rub in how Thorin, the King Under the Mountain, "[doesn't] have a mountain. And [he's] not a king. Which makes [him]... nobody, really".
* KingMook: The biggest, and also most important goblin seen in Peter Jackson's movies.
* LargeAndInCharge: He'sdeceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
almost the size of a troll.
* LargeHam: Special mention goes to his breaking out in song while describing how he intends to torture and kill the Dwarves.
-->"He wields the foe-hammer! The Beater, brrright as daylight!"
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the film after Gandalf fatally injures him.
-->"...that'll do it."
* MythologyGag: Bears a resemblance to his counterpart from the [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit animated film]].
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Even more different than other Goblins as he's much larger than a man and grotesquely fat.
* SerkisFolk: By the one and only Barry Humphries.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:What Gandalf does to finally do him in. Turns out he was right to freak out about seeing Glamdring.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAThe:A non-malevolent example, used out ''The'' Great Goblin.
* VillainousGlutton: Presumably, given how bloated he is compared to all other goblins and orcs.
* VillainSong: Gets a brief one (quoted above) that sounds [[MythologyGag somewhat reminiscent ofrespect.the "Goblin-Town" song from the book.]] The extended edition has him singing an altered version of the aforementioned song.
* WickedCultured: He seems quite well-spoken and knowledgeable for a goblin. Furthermore, he composes songs and makes the entire community perform them.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Although his book counterpart was also a villain, the first film makes him willing to answer Azog's bounty on Thorin's head. In the book, the goblins wanted them destroyed simply because they considered them spies and a threat (even though the dwarves never wanted any trouble with the goblins).
* AdiposeRex: Big and fat and the king. Self explanatory really.
* BadBoss: While this is essentially the norm for orcs and goblins, he's
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No
* BerserkButton: The
* GagNose: Sports
--> "I know that sword! It is the
* BodyHorror: His "beard" isn't made of hair.
* CardCarryingVillain: Lesser goblins address him as "[[TheMagnificent Your Malevolence]]".
* CoolCrown: Which may be made of claws or teeth.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: According to the design team, his throne also acts as a
* FatBastard: Extremely so on
*
*
* GeniusBruiser: Enormously strong (he effortlessly smashes his way through a bridge) and he comes across as pretty knowledgeble, knowing Thorin's history and being able to correctly identify magic swords on sight.
* GenreSavvy: When he sees the elven swords, he orders the dwarves killed pretty much immediately. Unfortunately, he's not quite quick enough.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:He handles Gandalf eviscerating him with surprising nonchalance. See MajorInjuryUnderreaction for his exact words before getting his throat slit.]]
* IWillShowYouX: In the extended addition:
-->'''Óin''': You're going to have to speak up. Your boys flattened my trumpet!\\
'''Great Goblin''': ''I'll flatten more than your TRUMPET!''
* {{Jerkass}}: Takes a moment to rub in how Thorin, the King Under the Mountain, "[doesn't] have a mountain. And [he's] not a king. Which makes [him]... nobody, really".
* KingMook: The biggest, and also most important goblin seen in Peter Jackson's movies.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's
* LargeHam: Special mention goes to his breaking out in song while describing how he intends to torture and kill the Dwarves.
-->"He wields the foe-hammer! The Beater, brrright as daylight!"
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In the film after Gandalf fatally injures him.
-->"...that'll do it."
* MythologyGag: Bears a resemblance to his counterpart from the [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit animated film]].
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Even more different than other Goblins as he's much larger than a man and grotesquely fat.
* SerkisFolk: By the one and only Barry Humphries.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:What Gandalf does to finally do him in. Turns out he was right to freak out about seeing Glamdring.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAThe:
* VillainousGlutton: Presumably, given how bloated he is compared to all other goblins and orcs.
* VillainSong: Gets a brief one (quoted above) that sounds [[MythologyGag somewhat reminiscent of
* WickedCultured: He seems quite well-spoken and knowledgeable for a goblin. Furthermore, he composes songs and makes the entire community perform them.
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!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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!!Belladonna Took
!!The Goblins of Goblin-Town
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->'''Appears
->'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected
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The countless inhabitants of Goblin-Town and the
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite BambooTechnology: Their city's bridges, platforms, and torture machines are all made of wood.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Their infinite number is nothing compared to thenegative connotations of "deadly nightshade", dwarves' weapons and combat skills, let alone Gandalf.
* EvilMinions: Naturally.
* ExtendedDisarming: They do this to thename is derived from dwarves.
* FreakOut: When they recognize Thorin's weapon : Orcrist, theItalian "goblin cleaver".
* HarmlessVillain: The film makes them really bordering on this.
* {{Mooks}}: Numerous and ineffective.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Generally short (with some fat ones) and ugly. They set traps for"beautiful woman".travellers in the mountains.
*GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
\\ZergRush: Their only tactic.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Their infinite number is nothing compared to the
* EvilMinions: Naturally.
* ExtendedDisarming: They do this to the
* FreakOut: When they recognize Thorin's weapon : Orcrist, the
* HarmlessVillain: The film makes them really bordering on this.
* {{Mooks}}: Numerous and ineffective.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Generally short (with some fat ones) and ugly. They set traps for
*
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Gollum
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AndySerkis
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''" They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread... the sound of trees... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious."''
Once a Stoor hobbit named Sméagol living in the hobbits' original home along the Great River Anduin, he murdered his cousin Déagol on his birthday after Déagol found the One Ring and refused to give to Sméagol as a present. Sméagol was then exiled. To deal with the stresses of exile, Sméagol's personality fractured, creating the creature known as Gollum, for the hacking cough he developed. Gollum, unlike Sméagol, was cruel, ruthless, twisted and manipulative, but allowed them to survive in the goblin-infested Misty Mountains. Eventually, Bilbo Baggins encountered Gollum as he trekked eastwards on the Quest of Erebor. Bilbo stole the One Ring, and beat Gollum in a game of riddles. Many years later, Gollum, hoping to reclaim the Ring, followed the Fellowship on their journey, starting in Moria. After the breaking of the Fellowship, he ambushed Frodo and Sam as they continued alone, but was captured and eventually served as their guide to Mount Doom. Despite the reemergence of the more decent Sméagol personality, he could not resist the lure of the Ring, and eventually attempted to lead Frodo and Sam into Shelob's clutches, so he could take the Ring from their bodies, but was killed when he attempted to take the Ring one last time at the Crack of Doom.
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* AccidentalHero: He did not mean to destroy the Ring, but if he hadn't tried to seize it from Frodo, it would never have fallen into the fire.
* AntiHero: Becomes one in ''The Two Towers'', aiding Frodo and Sam on their quest after the two spare his life, before slipping back to his old ways.
%%* AntiVillain
* BreakoutCharacter: Was essentially a OneSceneWonder in ''Literature/TheHobbit''. In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', he's a big attraction.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to his cousin Déagol's Abel; Sméagol murdered him for the Ring.
* CatchPhrase: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
* ChronicVillainy: He struggles between his loyalty to Frodo who spared his life and was kind to him, and his temptation by the Ring. In the end, the temptation wins, and he becomes a full-on villain by the third movie.
* TheCorruption: Gollum is the result of long-term possession and use of the Ring.
%%* CowerPower
%%* TheDarkSide
* TheDeterminator: A rather dark version. He survives starvation, the dead lands, the marshes, torture, and falling off a cliff, all powered by his lust for his precious. Possession of the One Ring extends its bearers lifespan indefinitely. However, once they lose possession of it, all that age catches up with them very quickly, as it did to Bilbo, after living 111 years but barely seeming to age until he gave up the ring. In comparison, the Ring extended Gollum's lifespan until he was approaching ''600 years old''. Several years after losing the ring, he's still going strong.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gollum's obsession with the Ring is reminiscent of methamphetamine addiction. It turns his body thin and haggard, destroys his identity and willpower, drives him to kill in order to possess it, and generally consumes his life.
* DrivenToMadness: By the Ring.
* FamousLastWords: "Precious!"
* FreudianTrio: With Frodo and Sam; represents the Id.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]].
%%* GreyAndGrayMorality
* {{Hobbits}}: At one time he was not unlike Frodo and Sam. This is part of why he's so damn tough.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He keeps wavering between "Gollum", the murderous sneaky bastard who wants to kill the thieves, and "Sméagol", the last vestige of his former self who yearns for friendship. Eventually Sméagol sides with Gollum outright.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Sméagol gets the upper hand in the second film and puts his trust fully in Frodo... and then Frodo has to trick him into getting captured by the Rangers of Ithilien, who are none too gentle.
%%* HeroAntagonist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Possibly]].
* ImMelting: Falls into the magma in Mount Doom.
%%* InvisibleJerkass
* LoinCloth: His only clothing is a small loincloth - presumably what's left of his pants from the time he was a hobbit. He still has a pocket on it he can put the ring into.
* ManChild: Sméagol is very childlike and even playful, speaking in singsong and capering around. Sometimes he does this when he's happy that Frodo is being nice, sometimes he's happy because he's feeding Frodo to Shelob. And he's both at once during the riddle game with Bilbo.
* MonsterSobStory: He was a regular hobbit once, but the Ring drove him into killing his cousin. If it hadn't been for that, he probably would have had a normal life.
* NotSoDifferent: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Uses this to ''terrifying'' effect during his scene in ''Film/AnUnexpectedJourney'', using it to vanish from sight and pop up behind Bilbo multiple times during their encounter. Even without the Ring's invisibility, he's plenty stealthy on his own.
* PreInsanityReveal: Gollum is a prime example. Originally a hobbit named Sméagol, he was corrupted mentally and physically by the Ring by the time Bilbo meets him in The Hobbit.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Five hundred something.
* ReformedButRejected: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[ProperlyParanoid When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]... In the extended edition, there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of DramaticIrony, and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.
%%* SanitySlippage
* SerkisFolk: TropeCodifier in the Jackson films. Gollum is a CGI character, but played on the set by Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit.
* ShadowArchetype: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
* SpannerInTheWorks: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."
* SplitPersonality: He lost his sanity from spending too much time by himself, with the Ring as his only company, and developed two distinct personalities: the curious, loyal and often playful Sméagol, and the hateful, murderous Gollum. [[TalkingToThemself The two selves often engage in arguments with each other]].
* StarringSpecialEffects: He is one of the main characters of ''The Two Towers'' and ''The Return of the King'', and he's created [[SerkisFolk by motion capture]].
%%* SympatheticMurderer
%%* SympathyForTheDevil: And how.
* TalkingToThemself: Usually represented by having him talk to his reflection, with the camera focusing on himself for Sméagol and the reflection for Gollum.
%%* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fisssh. During the hundreds of years he spent in his cave, his primary food source was raw fish, which he grew really fond of.
%%* TragicVillain
* VerbalTic: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!" He also has a tendency to call random things, usually people "precious" as well and punctuate his sentences with it, as though no matter what he were paying attention to his mind was constantly on the Ring.
* VerbalTicName: He is only known as "Gollum" from the gurgling sound he makes in his throat.
* WasOnceAMan: The prologue of ''Return of the King'' shows us his gradual corruption by the Ring from a normal Hobbit into the creature Gollum. This was done at the insistence of Andy Serkis, who wanted viewers to see there really was an actor behind Gollum.
%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Watcher in the Water]]
!!The Watcher in the Water
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
An aquatic monster which guards the western gates of Moria. It encounters the Fellowship upon their arrival to the walls of the dwarven realm, possibly awakening from a stone thrown to the water, and tries to abduct Frodo with its tentacles before being shot away by Legolas. It then crushes the doors of Moria behind them, leaving them trapped in Moria.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Considering the Fellowship is traveling with the equivalent of an angel and they encounter a devil shortly afterwards, definitely qualifies, though it is not exactly a squid.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: Unlike the book, the film monster emerges fully and even completely leaves the water at one point.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Aside from a series of sacks or quills behind it, the monster is composed of a tentacled body whose eyes and mouth configuration casually forms a human-like face.
* CombatTentacles: The Watcher has a multitude of tentacles, each ending in a grasping three fingered claw.
* CompositeCharacter: According to Peter Jackson, the Watcher in the Water is part of the race of nameless creatures which gnaw the world mentioned by Gandalf, and actually there was planned a scene in which Gandalf and the balrog scared away some of its kind upon splashing on the undeground lake.
* EldritchAbomination: A tentacled monster with a humanoid face.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: A big, ugly, mean one.
* GiantSquid: Distinctively subverted. Though its shape is very like a squid or octopus like, its body resembles more a bizarre mollusk spider, or rather a completely fictitious creature.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has two jaws with some creepy teeth.
* TentacleRope: It catches Frodo with its tentacles and swings him before Sam and Legolas free him. Afterwards, it still tries to catch them and drags them down into the water.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: It certainly evokes the kraken imagery.
* NoNameGiven: It is not called by its name in the film.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shelob]]
!!Shelob
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
Shelob was one of the countless brood of Ungoliant, a Great Spider and a relic from a time before Sauron's Shadow. Shelob was the greatest of Ungoliant’s spawn, many times larger than even the largest of Mirkwood's spiders. A purely neutral character, she only served herself, and her hunger and bloodlust would be satisfied by any creature she could consume.
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* AchillesHeel: Her underside is not as tough as the rest of her body; when she gives up trying to paralyze Sam with her venom and decides to crush him, he shoves Sting into her guts. The book emphasizes that unlike dragons, Shelob has no weak spots save for her eyes. Sam is only able to pierce her skin and tissue because she unwittingly slams on his blade with her own, massive strength.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Just like [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Mommy]].
* CastingAShadow: Like her mother, she weaves webs of unlight that are perceptible to the Hobbits, although the "unlight" part is hard to convey on film so they look like regular (but giant) webs.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Sauron treats her as his pet--specifically a cat, in that he thinks he owns her and she does whatever she pleases.
* EyeScream: Sam stabs her in one eye with Sting during their fight.
* GiantSpider: She's thought to be the daughter of Ungoliant, a spirit on the order of Sauron and Balrogs, who took spider form. She's also related to the giant spiders of Mirkwood, but she's bigger.
* 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.
* MeaningfulName: "Lob" is an archaic word for "spider". She's female. "She-Lob".
* OmnicidalManiac: No, really - it's AllThereInTheManual. "She, who desired only death for all others, and for herself a glut of life, alone..."
* PrimalFear: Spiders. Big spiders. Not surprising, since Tolkien was bitten by a highly venomous spider as a boy.
* SpidersAreScary: Both Tolkien and Jackson firmly believe in this trope. Shelob is a horrific menace even to the nasties that populate Mordor.
** Jackson deliberately asked the WETA team to model Shelob primarily after the funnel-web spider, one of Australia's most toxic and least adorable residents.
* TimeAbyss: She is said to have been around when the earth was born. Although that is moreso her mother [[BiggerBad Ungoliant]].
* TheVoiceless: The fact that she was able to work out a deal with Gollum implies she ''can'' speak, but she never does during her appearance in the text. Or just that she understands speech, and relented her attack when Gollum begged for his life and promised to bring her tasty things to eat. After she injures herself on Sting and Sam regains the vial, Shelob does screech "Nooooooo!" as she drags herself away, though.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The thing that finally makes her flinch is the phial of starlight Galadriel gave Frodo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Spiders of Mirkwood]]
!!The Spiders of Mirkwood
->'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''
Some of the countless brood of Ungoliant who are nesting in Dol Guldur and spreading through Mirkwood.
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* AchillesHeel: Bilbo manages to kill several by stabbing them in the mouth or in the abdomen. The dwarves also coordinate to tear off the limbs of a spider.
* AllWebbedUp: What they do to their victims before eating them.
* {{Animalistic Abomination}}s: They're the offspring of Shelob, who in turn was the daughter of Ungoliant.
* CobwebJungle: They're transforming Mirkwood into this and set web traps everywhere. Bilbo inadvertently informs them of the presence of the Company when he plays with a web filament, not knowing what it really is.
* {{Giant Spider}}s: Not as big as Shelob in ''The Return of the King'', but still very dangerous.
* KnockoutAmbush: On Bilbo.
* PrimalFear: They ''are'' giant spiders.
* SpidersAreScary: Especially if they're descended from a spider-shaped EldritchAbomination.
* TalkingAnimal: The Ring somehow allows Bilbo to understand what they say when he puts it on. Considering who made the Ring and the place the spiders come from, it makes sense.
* ZergRush: How they try to take down the dwarves and elves.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Beorn]]
!!Beorn
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard
[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/248px-Treebeard_6197.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Radagast]]
!!Radagast the Brown
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/k-bigpic_8315.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
[[/folder]]
!The Shire
[[folder:Lobelia Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Erin Banks, Elizabeth Moody
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
A rather unpleasant but very wealthy hobbit whose family has a rocky history with the Bagginses of Bag End. Wife of Otho Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: Aggressively pushes her husband to usurp his cousin, Bilbo, for leadership of the Baggins clan.
* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Applicably, the lobelia symbolizes malevolence and ill will.
* NosyNeighbor: She's known to constantly pry into Bilbo's affairs.
* ParasolOfPrettiness: She carries a dainty parasol, similarly fussy as her dress.
* PimpedOutDress: Costume designer Ann Maskrey describes her as being "decked out like an old traveller's caravan." She's on the right, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/515f9b0b0ad40edbc8a96687ffa3bbcb/tumblr_mff06wJqyg1qlqi9uo8_r1_1280.jpg here with Otho.]]
* PreppyName: The name Sackville was a familiar "aristocratic" name in Tolkien's day, especially in double-barrelled names such as Sackville-West, and he presumably used it (and the contrast with the more mundane Baggins) to imply the somewhat snobbish nature of the Sackville-Bagginses.
* RichBitch: In ''An Unexpected Journey'', she appears in a neat cameo, prissily tottering over Hobbiton Bridge in a PimpedOutDress, whilst making sure she shoots her cousin-in-law Bilbo a decidedly shitty look.
* StickyFingers: She's not above pinching silverware from relatives, as Bilbo explains, but probably justifies it as [[KarmicThief karmic theft,]] given that she also sees Bag-End as her rightful inheritance...
** In ''Battle of the Five Armies'', [[spoiler:she tries to steal Bilbo's silverware with him presumed dead.]]
* TimeshiftedActor: In ''Fellowship'', her older self (aged around 83) is played by Peter Jackson regular Elizabeth Moody, AKA Lionel's mother from ''{{Film/Braindead}}''. In ''An Unexpected Journey'', she's around 23.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Otho Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Otho Sackville-Baggins
->'''Portrayed by:''' Brian Hotter, Peter Corrigan
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: He's Bilbo's first-cousin and closest living heir, and therefore, his ambition was to succeed Bilbo as head of the Baggins family and be head of two families at once. Bilbo thwarts this by officially naming Frodo as the heir to Bag End.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family.
* PreppyName: Though his father was a Baggins, he inherited headship of the Sackville family through his mother, Camellia. Thus, Otho effectively founded a new family.
* TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]]
!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Belladonna Took]]
!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
\\
[[/folder]]
!!Gollum
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gollum_9459.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh! We knows! We knows safe paths for hobbitses! Safe paths in the dark... [[SplitPersonality SHUT UP]]!"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/AndySerkis
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''" They cursed us. Murderer they called us. They cursed us, and drove us away. And we wept, Precious, we wept to be so alone. And we only wish to catch fish so juicy sweet. And we forgot the taste of bread... the sound of trees... the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious."''
Once a Stoor hobbit named Sméagol living in the hobbits' original home along the Great River Anduin, he murdered his cousin Déagol on his birthday after Déagol found the One Ring and refused to give to Sméagol as a present. Sméagol was then exiled. To deal with the stresses of exile, Sméagol's personality fractured, creating the creature known as Gollum, for the hacking cough he developed. Gollum, unlike Sméagol, was cruel, ruthless, twisted and manipulative, but allowed them to survive in the goblin-infested Misty Mountains. Eventually, Bilbo Baggins encountered Gollum as he trekked eastwards on the Quest of Erebor. Bilbo stole the One Ring, and beat Gollum in a game of riddles. Many years later, Gollum, hoping to reclaim the Ring, followed the Fellowship on their journey, starting in Moria. After the breaking of the Fellowship, he ambushed Frodo and Sam as they continued alone, but was captured and eventually served as their guide to Mount Doom. Despite the reemergence of the more decent Sméagol personality, he could not resist the lure of the Ring, and eventually attempted to lead Frodo and Sam into Shelob's clutches, so he could take the Ring from their bodies, but was killed when he attempted to take the Ring one last time at the Crack of Doom.
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* AccidentalHero: He did not mean to destroy the Ring, but if he hadn't tried to seize it from Frodo, it would never have fallen into the fire.
* AntiHero: Becomes one in ''The Two Towers'', aiding Frodo and Sam on their quest after the two spare his life, before slipping back to his old ways.
%%* AntiVillain
* BreakoutCharacter: Was essentially a OneSceneWonder in ''Literature/TheHobbit''. In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', he's a big attraction.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to his cousin Déagol's Abel; Sméagol murdered him for the Ring.
* CatchPhrase: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
* ChronicVillainy: He struggles between his loyalty to Frodo who spared his life and was kind to him, and his temptation by the Ring. In the end, the temptation wins, and he becomes a full-on villain by the third movie.
* TheCorruption: Gollum is the result of long-term possession and use of the Ring.
%%* CowerPower
%%* TheDarkSide
* TheDeterminator: A rather dark version. He survives starvation, the dead lands, the marshes, torture, and falling off a cliff, all powered by his lust for his precious. Possession of the One Ring extends its bearers lifespan indefinitely. However, once they lose possession of it, all that age catches up with them very quickly, as it did to Bilbo, after living 111 years but barely seeming to age until he gave up the ring. In comparison, the Ring extended Gollum's lifespan until he was approaching ''600 years old''. Several years after losing the ring, he's still going strong.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Gollum's obsession with the Ring is reminiscent of methamphetamine addiction. It turns his body thin and haggard, destroys his identity and willpower, drives him to kill in order to possess it, and generally consumes his life.
* DrivenToMadness: By the Ring.
* FamousLastWords: "Precious!"
* FreudianTrio: With Frodo and Sam; represents the Id.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]].
%%* GreyAndGrayMorality
* {{Hobbits}}: At one time he was not unlike Frodo and Sam. This is part of why he's so damn tough.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He keeps wavering between "Gollum", the murderous sneaky bastard who wants to kill the thieves, and "Sméagol", the last vestige of his former self who yearns for friendship. Eventually Sméagol sides with Gollum outright.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Sméagol gets the upper hand in the second film and puts his trust fully in Frodo... and then Frodo has to trick him into getting captured by the Rangers of Ithilien, who are none too gentle.
%%* HeroAntagonist: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Possibly]].
* ImMelting: Falls into the magma in Mount Doom.
%%* InvisibleJerkass
* LoinCloth: His only clothing is a small loincloth - presumably what's left of his pants from the time he was a hobbit. He still has a pocket on it he can put the ring into.
* ManChild: Sméagol is very childlike and even playful, speaking in singsong and capering around. Sometimes he does this when he's happy that Frodo is being nice, sometimes he's happy because he's feeding Frodo to Shelob. And he's both at once during the riddle game with Bilbo.
* MonsterSobStory: He was a regular hobbit once, but the Ring drove him into killing his cousin. If it hadn't been for that, he probably would have had a normal life.
* NotSoDifferent: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Uses this to ''terrifying'' effect during his scene in ''Film/AnUnexpectedJourney'', using it to vanish from sight and pop up behind Bilbo multiple times during their encounter. Even without the Ring's invisibility, he's plenty stealthy on his own.
* PreInsanityReveal: Gollum is a prime example. Originally a hobbit named Sméagol, he was corrupted mentally and physically by the Ring by the time Bilbo meets him in The Hobbit.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Five hundred something.
* ReformedButRejected: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[ProperlyParanoid When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]... In the extended edition, there's a scene toward the end of ''The Two Towers'' where Sam ''does'' apparently start to trust Gollum in earnest, saying that he's being "very decent". And it's ''just'' before Gollum decides to go back to plotting Frodo and Sam's deaths, making this a case of DramaticIrony, and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.
%%* SanitySlippage
* SerkisFolk: TropeCodifier in the Jackson films. Gollum is a CGI character, but played on the set by Andy Serkis in a motion capture suit.
* ShadowArchetype: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
* SpannerInTheWorks: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."
* SplitPersonality: He lost his sanity from spending too much time by himself, with the Ring as his only company, and developed two distinct personalities: the curious, loyal and often playful Sméagol, and the hateful, murderous Gollum. [[TalkingToThemself The two selves often engage in arguments with each other]].
* StarringSpecialEffects: He is one of the main characters of ''The Two Towers'' and ''The Return of the King'', and he's created [[SerkisFolk by motion capture]].
%%* SympatheticMurderer
%%* SympathyForTheDevil: And how.
* TalkingToThemself: Usually represented by having him talk to his reflection, with the camera focusing on himself for Sméagol and the reflection for Gollum.
%%* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fisssh. During the hundreds of years he spent in his cave, his primary food source was raw fish, which he grew really fond of.
%%* TragicVillain
* VerbalTic: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!" He also has a tendency to call random things, usually people "precious" as well and punctuate his sentences with it, as though no matter what he were paying attention to his mind was constantly on the Ring.
* VerbalTicName: He is only known as "Gollum" from the gurgling sound he makes in his throat.
* WasOnceAMan: The prologue of ''Return of the King'' shows us his gradual corruption by the Ring from a normal Hobbit into the creature Gollum. This was done at the insistence of Andy Serkis, who wanted viewers to see there really was an actor behind Gollum.
%%* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Watcher in the Water]]
!!The Watcher in the Water
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
An aquatic monster which guards the western gates of Moria. It encounters the Fellowship upon their arrival to the walls of the dwarven realm, possibly awakening from a stone thrown to the water, and tries to abduct Frodo with its tentacles before being shot away by Legolas. It then crushes the doors of Moria behind them, leaving them trapped in Moria.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Considering the Fellowship is traveling with the equivalent of an angel and they encounter a devil shortly afterwards, definitely qualifies, though it is not exactly a squid.
* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: Unlike the book, the film monster emerges fully and even completely leaves the water at one point.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Aside from a series of sacks or quills behind it, the monster is composed of a tentacled body whose eyes and mouth configuration casually forms a human-like face.
* CombatTentacles: The Watcher has a multitude of tentacles, each ending in a grasping three fingered claw.
* CompositeCharacter: According to Peter Jackson, the Watcher in the Water is part of the race of nameless creatures which gnaw the world mentioned by Gandalf, and actually there was planned a scene in which Gandalf and the balrog scared away some of its kind upon splashing on the undeground lake.
* EldritchAbomination: A tentacled monster with a humanoid face.
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: A big, ugly, mean one.
* GiantSquid: Distinctively subverted. Though its shape is very like a squid or octopus like, its body resembles more a bizarre mollusk spider, or rather a completely fictitious creature.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has two jaws with some creepy teeth.
* TentacleRope: It catches Frodo with its tentacles and swings him before Sam and Legolas free him. Afterwards, it still tries to catch them and drags them down into the water.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: It certainly evokes the kraken imagery.
* NoNameGiven: It is not called by its name in the film.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shelob]]
!!Shelob
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4755481_std_7240.jpg]]
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
Shelob was one of the countless brood of Ungoliant, a Great Spider and a relic from a time before Sauron's Shadow. Shelob was the greatest of Ungoliant’s spawn, many times larger than even the largest of Mirkwood's spiders. A purely neutral character, she only served herself, and her hunger and bloodlust would be satisfied by any creature she could consume.
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* AchillesHeel: Her underside is not as tough as the rest of her body; when she gives up trying to paralyze Sam with her venom and decides to crush him, he shoves Sting into her guts. The book emphasizes that unlike dragons, Shelob has no weak spots save for her eyes. Sam is only able to pierce her skin and tissue because she unwittingly slams on his blade with her own, massive strength.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Just like [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Mommy]].
* CastingAShadow: Like her mother, she weaves webs of unlight that are perceptible to the Hobbits, although the "unlight" part is hard to convey on film so they look like regular (but giant) webs.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Sauron treats her as his pet--specifically a cat, in that he thinks he owns her and she does whatever she pleases.
* EyeScream: Sam stabs her in one eye with Sting during their fight.
* GiantSpider: She's thought to be the daughter of Ungoliant, a spirit on the order of Sauron and Balrogs, who took spider form. She's also related to the giant spiders of Mirkwood, but she's bigger.
* 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.
* MeaningfulName: "Lob" is an archaic word for "spider". She's female. "She-Lob".
* OmnicidalManiac: No, really - it's AllThereInTheManual. "She, who desired only death for all others, and for herself a glut of life, alone..."
* PrimalFear: Spiders. Big spiders. Not surprising, since Tolkien was bitten by a highly venomous spider as a boy.
* SpidersAreScary: Both Tolkien and Jackson firmly believe in this trope. Shelob is a horrific menace even to the nasties that populate Mordor.
** Jackson deliberately asked the WETA team to model Shelob primarily after the funnel-web spider, one of Australia's most toxic and least adorable residents.
* TimeAbyss: She is said to have been around when the earth was born. Although that is moreso her mother [[BiggerBad Ungoliant]].
* TheVoiceless: The fact that she was able to work out a deal with Gollum implies she ''can'' speak, but she never does during her appearance in the text. Or just that she understands speech, and relented her attack when Gollum begged for his life and promised to bring her tasty things to eat. After she injures herself on Sting and Sam regains the vial, Shelob does screech "Nooooooo!" as she drags herself away, though.
* WeakenedByTheLight: The thing that finally makes her flinch is the phial of starlight Galadriel gave Frodo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Spiders of Mirkwood]]
!!The Spiders of Mirkwood
->'''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''
Some of the countless brood of Ungoliant who are nesting in Dol Guldur and spreading through Mirkwood.
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* AchillesHeel: Bilbo manages to kill several by stabbing them in the mouth or in the abdomen. The dwarves also coordinate to tear off the limbs of a spider.
* AllWebbedUp: What they do to their victims before eating them.
* {{Animalistic Abomination}}s: They're the offspring of Shelob, who in turn was the daughter of Ungoliant.
* CobwebJungle: They're transforming Mirkwood into this and set web traps everywhere. Bilbo inadvertently informs them of the presence of the Company when he plays with a web filament, not knowing what it really is.
* {{Giant Spider}}s: Not as big as Shelob in ''The Return of the King'', but still very dangerous.
* KnockoutAmbush: On Bilbo.
* PrimalFear: They ''are'' giant spiders.
* SpidersAreScary: Especially if they're descended from a spider-shaped EldritchAbomination.
* TalkingAnimal: The Ring somehow allows Bilbo to understand what they say when he puts it on. Considering who made the Ring and the place the spiders come from, it makes sense.
* ZergRush: How they try to take down the dwarves and elves.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Beorn]]
!!Beorn
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beorn_thehobbit_3284.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard
[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/248px-Treebeard_6197.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
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[[folder: Radagast]]
!!Radagast the Brown
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
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!The Shire
[[folder:Lobelia Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Erin Banks, Elizabeth Moody
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
A rather unpleasant but very wealthy hobbit whose family has a rocky history with the Bagginses of Bag End. Wife of Otho Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: Aggressively pushes her husband to usurp his cousin, Bilbo, for leadership of the Baggins clan.
* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Applicably, the lobelia symbolizes malevolence and ill will.
* NosyNeighbor: She's known to constantly pry into Bilbo's affairs.
* ParasolOfPrettiness: She carries a dainty parasol, similarly fussy as her dress.
* PimpedOutDress: Costume designer Ann Maskrey describes her as being "decked out like an old traveller's caravan." She's on the right, [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/515f9b0b0ad40edbc8a96687ffa3bbcb/tumblr_mff06wJqyg1qlqi9uo8_r1_1280.jpg here with Otho.]]
* PreppyName: The name Sackville was a familiar "aristocratic" name in Tolkien's day, especially in double-barrelled names such as Sackville-West, and he presumably used it (and the contrast with the more mundane Baggins) to imply the somewhat snobbish nature of the Sackville-Bagginses.
* RichBitch: In ''An Unexpected Journey'', she appears in a neat cameo, prissily tottering over Hobbiton Bridge in a PimpedOutDress, whilst making sure she shoots her cousin-in-law Bilbo a decidedly shitty look.
* StickyFingers: She's not above pinching silverware from relatives, as Bilbo explains, but probably justifies it as [[KarmicThief karmic theft,]] given that she also sees Bag-End as her rightful inheritance...
** In ''Battle of the Five Armies'', [[spoiler:she tries to steal Bilbo's silverware with him presumed dead.]]
* TimeshiftedActor: In ''Fellowship'', her older self (aged around 83) is played by Peter Jackson regular Elizabeth Moody, AKA Lionel's mother from ''{{Film/Braindead}}''. In ''An Unexpected Journey'', she's around 23.
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[[folder:Otho Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Otho Sackville-Baggins
->'''Portrayed by:''' Brian Hotter, Peter Corrigan
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: He's Bilbo's first-cousin and closest living heir, and therefore, his ambition was to succeed Bilbo as head of the Baggins family and be head of two families at once. Bilbo thwarts this by officially naming Frodo as the heir to Bag End.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family.
* PreppyName: Though his father was a Baggins, he inherited headship of the Sackville family through his mother, Camellia. Thus, Otho effectively founded a new family.
* TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30.
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[[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]]
!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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[[folder:Belladonna Took]]
!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Thráin II
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"Tell Thorin that I love him! Will you do that? Will you tell my son that I loved him?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Mizrahi
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Azog means to kill us all! One by one, he will destroy the line of Durin! But by my life, he shall not take my son! You will stay here!"''
Father of Thorin and previous King of Durin's Folk. Died in the dungeons of Dol Guldur, but not before encountering Gandalf and giving him the map and key needed to get into Erebor. Also lost Durin's Ring of Power to Azog.
!!Thráin II
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[[caption-width-right:280:''"Tell Thorin that I love him! Will you do that? Will you tell my son that I loved him?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Michael Mizrahi
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Azog means to kill us all! One by one, he will destroy the line of Durin! But by my life, he shall not take my son! You will stay here!"''
Father of Thorin and previous King of Durin's Folk. Died in the dungeons of Dol Guldur, but not before encountering Gandalf and giving him the map and key needed to get into Erebor. Also lost Durin's Ring of Power to Azog.
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* CurbStompBattle: Defending Erebor against Smaug.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing one of the Seven Dwarf rings and cut off the forefinger to get it.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the defense of Erebor from the front, alongside his son.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills him in the fim's extended edition. He has trouble remembering Thorin and what happened to him.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, but still seems up for a fight.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ScarsAreForever: Has what looks like an ugly burn scar over his left eye.
* WarriorPrince: He may be Thrór's son, but he's a Dwarf and Dwarves are always badass.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the extended sdition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldur for a very long time. When Gandalf finally finds him, he has been driven nearly completely mad, and is soon after [[spoiler:killed by the Necromancer.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Attacked Azog ahead of Thorin after his father Thrór was beheaded.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing one of the Seven Dwarf rings and cut off the forefinger to get it.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the defense of Erebor from the front, alongside his son.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills him in the fim's extended edition. He has trouble remembering Thorin and what happened to him.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, but still seems up for a fight.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ScarsAreForever: Has what looks like an ugly burn scar over his left eye.
* WarriorPrince: He may be Thrór's son, but he's a Dwarf and Dwarves are always badass.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the extended sdition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldur for a very long time. When Gandalf finally finds him, he has been driven nearly completely mad, and is soon after [[spoiler:killed by the Necromancer.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Attacked Azog ahead of Thorin after his father Thrór was beheaded.
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* CurbStompBattle: Defending Erebor against Smaug.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown:AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The Lonely Mountain.
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing onescenes at Beorn's house are some of the Seven Dwarf rings and cut off the forefinger to get it.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills himfunniest in the fim's book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition.He has trouble remembering Thorin and what happened to him.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, butBeorn, however, still seems up for a fight.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't haveacts quite hostile rather than the chance to evacuate and salvage any of BoisterousBruiser he is in the gold.
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*ScarsAreForever: {{Animorphism}}: Has what looks the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't likean ugly burn scar over Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of hisleft eye.stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
*WarriorPrince: BewareTheNiceOnes: He may be Thrór's son, isn't evil by any means, but he's a Dwarf once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size andDwarves are always badass.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the extended sdition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldurstrength for a very long time. When Gandalf finally finds him, he has been driven nearly completely mad, man, and is soon retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after[[spoiler:killed by the Necromancer.company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
*YouKilledMyFather: Attacked Azog ahead EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of Thorin after the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in hisfather Thrór huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He wasbeheaded.therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown:
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing one
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the defense of Erebor from the front, alongside his son.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills him
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, but
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't have
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* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
*
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the extended sdition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldur
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
*
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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!!Thrór, King Under the Mountain
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Jeffrey Thomas
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]]
Father of Thráin and grandfather of Thorin. Previous King of Erebor, once the mightiest of the Dwarf Lords and the first owner of the Arkenstone. Unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Moria, but was unable to do so in the face of heavy casualties and the presence of Durin's Bane, not to mention his own death in combat against Azog the Defiler.
!!Thrór, King Under the Mountain
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Jeffrey Thomas
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]]
Father of Thráin and grandfather of Thorin. Previous King of Erebor, once the mightiest of the Dwarf Lords and the first owner of the Arkenstone. Unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Moria, but was unable to do so in the face of heavy casualties and the presence of Durin's Bane, not to mention his own death in combat against Azog the Defiler.
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!!Thrór, King Under the Mountain
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!!Treebeard
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Father of Thráin and grandfather of Thorin. Previous King of Erebor, once the mightiest
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the
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* BigNo: When he drops the Arkenstone into a huge pile of gold, which is then swept away by Smaug.
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Under the Mountain.
* CurbStompBattle: Smaug's attack on Erebor. Then the Battle of Azanulbizar after his death until Thorin managed to chop off Azog's hand and rally his troops to victory.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more than most other Dwarves, given his GoldFever.
* PerilousOldFool: His attempt to retake Moria from the orcs was almost bound to fail. It ended up failing anyway, because of the PyrrhicVictory.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies in the prologue, which is set decades before the events of the story.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ShadowArchetype: To Thorin, who almost becomes just as greedy and insane as his grandfather. Luckily he snaps out of it before it is too late.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawn to the mountain in the first place. Then again, as stated above, he was quite likely under the influence of one of the Rings of Power, so how much control he had over himself is debateable.
* WarriorPrince: Fought on the front lines against Azog's army.
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Under the Mountain.
* CurbStompBattle: Smaug's attack on Erebor. Then the Battle of Azanulbizar after his death until Thorin managed to chop off Azog's hand and rally his troops to victory.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more than most other Dwarves, given his GoldFever.
* PerilousOldFool: His attempt to retake Moria from the orcs was almost bound to fail. It ended up failing anyway, because of the PyrrhicVictory.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies in the prologue, which is set decades before the events of the story.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ShadowArchetype: To Thorin, who almost becomes just as greedy and insane as his grandfather. Luckily he snaps out of it before it is too late.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawn to the mountain in the first place. Then again, as stated above, he was quite likely under the influence of one of the Rings of Power, so how much control he had over himself is debateable.
* WarriorPrince: Fought on the front lines against Azog's army.
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* BigNo: When BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that hedrops refers to the Arkenstone into a wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the hugepile indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any ofgold, which is then swept away by Smaug.
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Underthis War of the Mountain.
Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
*CurbStompBattle: Smaug's NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Erebor. Then Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is theBattle story of Azanulbizar after his death until Thorin managed life, according to chop off Azog's hand and rally his troops to victory.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more thanhim. Like most other Dwarves, given his GoldFever.
* PerilousOldFool:Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His attempt Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time toretake Moria from the orcs was almost bound to fail. It ended up failing anyway, because of the PyrrhicVictory.
* PosthumousCharacter: He diessay anything in the prologue, which is set decades before the events of the story.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ShadowArchetype: To Thorin, who almost becomes just as greedy and insane as his grandfather. Luckily he snaps out of it before[[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is too late.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawnworth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps themountain third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first place. Then again, as stated above, he was quite likely under generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the influence of one [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Rings of Power, so how much control he had over himself Trees]], is debateable.
* WarriorPrince: Fought onolder still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the front lines against Azog's army.world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Under
%%* HiddenDepths
*
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more than
* PerilousOldFool:
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ShadowArchetype: To Thorin, who almost becomes just as greedy and insane as his grandfather. Luckily he snaps out of it before
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawn
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the
* WarriorPrince: Fought on
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
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!!Dáin Ironfoot, Lord of the Iron Hills
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I will not stand down before any elf! Let alone this faithless woodland sprite!"]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BillyConnolly
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Good mornin'! How are we all? I've a wee proposition if you wouldn't mind giving me a few moments of yer time. Would ye consider... just SODDING OFF!"''
Lord of the Iron Hills, to the east of Erebor, and kinsman of Thorin. Future King of Durin's Folk and King Under the Mountain.
!!Dáin Ironfoot, Lord of the Iron Hills
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I will not stand down before any elf! Let alone this faithless woodland sprite!"]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/BillyConnolly
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Good mornin'! How are we all? I've a wee proposition if you wouldn't mind giving me a few moments of yer time. Would ye consider... just SODDING OFF!"''
Lord of the Iron Hills, to the east of Erebor, and kinsman of Thorin. Future King of Durin's Folk and King Under the Mountain.
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!!Dáin Ironfoot, Lord of
!!Radagast the
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
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One of the
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* AllThereInTheManual: The commercial cut of the movie leaves this unaddressed, but in the books and the extended edition he becomes King Under the Mountain after [[spoiler: Thorin's death]] and his sons become kings after him until the end of Durin's line.
* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's tusks, had a tendency to headbutt his foes like a charging boar, and also rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass, he showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting several helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riding a giant pig to war.]]
* BadassFamily: Thorin's second cousin and very badass.
* BadassMoustache: Grown into the shape of a pair of tusks.
* BattleCry: "To battle, sons of Durin, to battle!"
* BigDamnHeroes: His arrival not only safes Thorin, but probably the elves from the Orcish armies as well.
* BloodKnight: Dáin's very excited at the prospect of splitting some elvish (and later Orcish) skulls.
* BoisterousBruiser: He goes into battle practically roaring with glee. When the action focuses on him, he can always be heard bellowing.
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times with his bare forehead and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfoot spends most of his speech calling the Elves pathetic and worthless.
* SignatureMove: Dáin has his hammer, but when the fight gets too close-up for him to use it, he tends to resort to a headbutt, a.k.a. the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbutt Glasgow Kiss]]" -- possibly a nod to his actor's background (see ViolentGlaswegian, below).
* SirSwearsALot: His swearing is all PG-13, but that still makes him the foulest mouth in Middle-earth by a huge margin.
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent for the role, and Dáin is amazingly violent and aggressive.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen after the end of the Battle of the Five Armies. In the books he became King Under the Mountain after Thorin.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is implied to have been on the receiving end of this from Thorin when he refused to commit any forces to help retake Erebor.
** Though Smaug is basically a GodzillaThreshold that no sane person would ever think to cross, and universally considered a fool's errand. As soon as word reaches Dáin that Smaug is ''dead'', however, he quickly comes riding with his army to Thorin's aid. Everything up to but not including a dragon, he's up for - be it a large Elf army (supplemented by a couple hundred angry Men of Laketown), or charging head-first into a larger army of Orcs.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's tusks, had a tendency to headbutt his foes like a charging boar, and also rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass, he showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting several helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riding a giant pig to war.]]
* BadassFamily: Thorin's second cousin and very badass.
* BadassMoustache: Grown into the shape of a pair of tusks.
* BattleCry: "To battle, sons of Durin, to battle!"
* BigDamnHeroes: His arrival not only safes Thorin, but probably the elves from the Orcish armies as well.
* BloodKnight: Dáin's very excited at the prospect of splitting some elvish (and later Orcish) skulls.
* BoisterousBruiser: He goes into battle practically roaring with glee. When the action focuses on him, he can always be heard bellowing.
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times with his bare forehead and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfoot spends most of his speech calling the Elves pathetic and worthless.
* SignatureMove: Dáin has his hammer, but when the fight gets too close-up for him to use it, he tends to resort to a headbutt, a.k.a. the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbutt Glasgow Kiss]]" -- possibly a nod to his actor's background (see ViolentGlaswegian, below).
* SirSwearsALot: His swearing is all PG-13, but that still makes him the foulest mouth in Middle-earth by a huge margin.
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent for the role, and Dáin is amazingly violent and aggressive.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen after the end of the Battle of the Five Armies. In the books he became King Under the Mountain after Thorin.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is implied to have been on the receiving end of this from Thorin when he refused to commit any forces to help retake Erebor.
** Though Smaug is basically a GodzillaThreshold that no sane person would ever think to cross, and universally considered a fool's errand. As soon as word reaches Dáin that Smaug is ''dead'', however, he quickly comes riding with his army to Thorin's aid. Everything up to but not including a dragon, he's up for - be it a large Elf army (supplemented by a couple hundred angry Men of Laketown), or charging head-first into a larger army of Orcs.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
to:
* AllThereInTheManual: The commercial cut AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the movie leaves this unaddressed, but in Wise and is never part of the books and the extended edition he becomes King Under the Mountain after (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: Thorin's death]] when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and his sons become kings after him until the end of Durin's line.
* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's tusks, had a tendency to headbutt his foes like a charging boar, and also rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass, he showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting several helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riding a giant pig to war.that's it.]]
*BadassFamily: Thorin's second cousin and very badass.
* BadassMoustache: Grown intoAdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the shape first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of apair of tusks.
mysterious character than a funny one.
*BattleCry: "To battle, sons of Durin, to battle!"
BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes:His arrival not Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is onlysafes Thorin, mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, butprobably the elves he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the Orcish armies as well.dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
*BloodKnight: Dáin's very excited at {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the prospect regal tower of splitting some elvish (and later Orcish) skulls.Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
*BoisterousBruiser: NatureLover: He goes into battle practically roaring with glee. When the action focuses on him, he can always be heard bellowing.
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times with his bare forehead and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfootspends most of his speech calling time in the Elves pathetic Greenwood looking after the plants and worthless.
* SignatureMove: Dáinanimals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in hishammer, house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but when the fight gets too close-up for him he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to use it, he tends make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to resort to a headbutt, a.k.a. the "[[http://en.burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbutt Glasgow Kiss]]" -- possibly a nod to his actor's background (see ViolentGlaswegian, below).
org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
*SirSwearsALot: His swearing is all PG-13, but NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that still makes him at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the foulest mouth in Middle-earth by a huge margin.
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent forWizard fending the role, Witch-King and Dáin is amazingly violent escaping from Sauron himself; and aggressive.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen afterthen, when he appears with the end of White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the Battle of only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the Five Armies. weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping thebooks he became King Under Company is less important than saving the Mountain after Thorin.world.
*WhatTheHellHero: Is implied to have been on the receiving end of OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this from Thorin in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he refused to commit any forces to help retake Erebor.
** Though Smaug is basicallyrealizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got aGodzillaThreshold bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that no sane person would ever he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how tocross, make very accurate bird-calls and universally considered a fool's errand. As soon as word reaches Dáin has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that Smaug ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is''dead'', however, investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why hequickly comes riding with his army never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's aid. Everything up to funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, butnot including a dragon, that fact he's up for - be it a large Elf army (supplemented by a couple hundred angry Men of Laketown), or charging head-first unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into a larger army of Orcs.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" isMirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at onlyreaction when he notices that a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the biggest Orc army Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning. old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's tusks, had a tendency to headbutt his foes like a charging boar, and also rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass, he showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting several helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking riding a giant pig to war.
*
* BadassMoustache: Grown into
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a
*
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes:
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
*
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
*
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times with his bare forehead and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfoot
* SignatureMove: Dáin
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.
*
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent for
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen after
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the
*
** Though Smaug is basically
* ThePigPen: He's got a
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
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!!Beorn
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
!!Beorn
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
to:
!!Beorn
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:'''
->'''Appears in:'''
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->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some BadassFamily: Clan-leader of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.Bilbo's grandfather.
*BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He'sTheClan: The head of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength it, in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.fact.
*TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intriguedCreatorCameo: Played by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.Weta's Dan Hennah.
*NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
*ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to GagNose: Sports the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn most ridiculously extreme nose in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
*ShapeShifter: Known as HappyFlashback: He appears in a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear. It's difficult very sweet scene added to see, but it seems that his clothes change with him, something which is never addressed in the book as he never changes skin off-screen there.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the closespecial edition of ''An Unexpected Journey''.Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
*YouShallNotPass: PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Avariant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill.
*
* TheBigGuy: He's
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
*
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close
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!!Treebeard
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
!!Treebeard
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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!!Treebeard
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!!Belladonna Took
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:'''
->'''Appears in:'''
One of the
->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth),
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard.
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him.FloralThemeNaming: Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takesfemale hobbits, she's named after a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhapsflower. Despite the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the first generation name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit ofElves at Cuiviénen way back adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the[[TheTimeOfMyths Years above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of theTrees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than events depicted in the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Sarumanmain story, she has burned down the trees near Fangorn, Treebeard and the rest of the living Ents decide to 'go to war' by flooding Isengard. been dead for around ten years.
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* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him.
-->'''Treebeard:''' "You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the
* VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now...
* WhenTreesAttack: With a vengeance! When Saruman
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!!Radagast the Brown
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Radagast the Brown
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
One of the five Istari sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples by the Valar. In addition to combating Sauron, Radagast was also given the additional task of watching over Middle-earth's flora and fauna by the Vala Yavanna (who he served as a Maia). By far the silliest-looking of their number, he is [[BewareTheSillyOnes nonetheless a formidable foe of the evil infesting Mirkwood]], and the first to realize the threat growing in Dol Guldur.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
** ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' Extended Edition adds a scene where Radagast loans his staff to Gandalf, [[spoiler:whose own staff was disintegrated by Sauron in ''Desolation of Smaug'']].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
* {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as opposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* NonActionGuy: Zig-zagged. It's clear that at least Saruman doesn't have a lot of faith in Radagast's skills, but then we are shown the Wizard fending the Witch-King and escaping from Sauron himself; and then, when he appears with the White Council raiding Dol Guldur, he is the only who doesn't fight, only appearing to evacuate the weakened Gandalf.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the bodies of old men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
* WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind.
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!!Characters from deleted scenes.
[[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]]
!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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!!Belladonna Took
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]''
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->'''Portrayed by:''' Jeffrey Thomas
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]]
->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]] | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]''[[note]]Flashback[[/note]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against an uncloaked Nazgûl without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points out it was the ''[[TheDragon Witch-King himself.]]'']]
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference to a [[Series/DoctorWho previous eccentric hidden badass]] Sylvester played.
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points out it was the ''[[TheDragon Witch-King himself.]]'']]
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference to a [[Series/DoctorWho previous eccentric hidden badass]] Sylvester played.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against an uncloaked Nazgûl the Witch-king without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points out it was the ''[[TheDragon Witch-King himself.]]'']]
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference to a [[Series/DoctorWho previous eccentric hidden badass]] Sylvester played.]]
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points out it was the ''[[TheDragon Witch-King himself.]]'']]
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference to a [[Series/DoctorWho previous eccentric hidden badass]] Sylvester played.
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** AnimalsNotToScale: Actually an aversion. At first, Jackson and his production team thought they'd have to design larger than real life rabbits, designing them from scratch so they'd have to spend extra time figuring out their musculature and movement. There was also some slight worry that rabbits large enough to pull the sled would seem a bit too fantastic (granted, in a movie with a dragon in it). Then they did some research and found out that the largest rabbit breed, the [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/the-hobbit-real-giant-rabbits-peter-jackson Flemish Giant rabbit]], [[RealityIsUnrealistic actually does grow]] as big as sled-dogs. So Radagast's rabbits actually are based on real-life animals.
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* YouHaveGotTobeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
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* YouHaveGotTobeKiddingMe: YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
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One of the Istari, a Maiar of Yavanna sent to Middle Earth from Aman to oppose Sauron.
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->''"Just give me a minute. Um...Oh! I had a thought and now I've lost it. It was...it was right there, on the tip of my tongue! Oh! It's not a thought at all! It's a silly old... stick insect."''
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* BadassAdorable: His rabbits serve as this.
** BadassGrandpa/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but when badassery is called, look at him taking out The Witch King of Angmar.
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: Eccentric as he may be, he has the guts to be badass.
* {{Druid}}: His build as this.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He like Saruman (Curumo) and Gandalf (Olorin) of the Istari are really angels in the guise of old sturdy men.
* TimeAbyss: Being one of the Maiar which were created before time, expect him to be this.
** BadassGrandpa/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but when badassery is called, look at him taking out The Witch King of Angmar.
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: Eccentric as he may be, he has the guts to be badass.
* {{Druid}}: His build as this.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He like Saruman (Curumo) and Gandalf (Olorin) of the Istari are really angels in the guise of old sturdy men.
* TimeAbyss: Being one of the Maiar which were created before time, expect him to be this.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Apart from Gandalf he doesn't get that much respect from the rest of the Wise and is never part of the (onscreen) White Council (it's implied Saruman had something to with that). Indeed, [[spoiler: when Gandalf is rescued from Dol Guldur he's in a non-combatant role. He gets Gandalf out and that's it.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
** AnimalsNotToScale: Actually an aversion. At first, Jackson and his production team thought they'd have to design larger than real life rabbits, designing them from scratch so they'd have to spend extra time figuring out their musculature and movement. There was also some slight worry that rabbitsserve large enough to pull the sled would seem a bit too fantastic (granted, in a movie with a dragon in it). Then they did some research and found out that the largest rabbit breed, the [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/the-hobbit-real-giant-rabbits-peter-jackson Flemish Giant rabbit]], [[RealityIsUnrealistic actually does grow]] as big as sled-dogs. So Radagast's rabbits actually are based on real-life animals.
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
** BadassGrandpa/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird * CharacterExaggeration: He wasn't described much in Tolkien's writings other than being more interested in the forests than the people of Middle-earth. In the film, he's clearly more absent-minded and even rides a sled pulled by rabbits.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, butwhen badassery is called, look at him taking he [[spoiler: banishes a herd of marauding spiders from his home with [[MagicalIncantation arcane power-word incantations]] (and brings an adorable hedgehog named Sebastian ''back from the dead'' -- well, ''mostly'' dead), faces off against an uncloaked Nazgûl without blinking and leads a warband of orcs on a merry chase with his rabbit sled without a care in the world.]]
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points outThe Witch King of Angmar.
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: Eccentric as he may be, he hasit was the guts ''[[TheDragon Witch-King himself.]]'']]
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference tobe badass.
a [[Series/DoctorWho previous eccentric hidden badass]] Sylvester played.
* {{Druid}}:His build The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation.
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation asthis.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Heopposed to wandering around Middle-earth like Gandalf. But while Saruman (Curumo) lives in the regal tower of Orthanc, Radagast lives in a humble ramshackle cottage called Rhosgobel. Radagast cares for the trees and animals as his friends, while Saruman with his mind of "metal and wheels" sees trees as only fuel for his war engines, including the ones inside Isengard's park.
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf(Olorin) that helping the Company is less important than saving the world.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of theIstari are really angels threat.
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies''.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in theguise bodies of old sturdy men.
men as they are meant to combat Sauron by wisdom and persuasion not brute strength or force.
*TimeAbyss: Being one WizardBeard: Not of the Maiar which were created before time, expect him to be this.
cleanest kind.
* AdaptationalBadass: The books never show how capable he is, as he barely appears at all, but in the first film he fights off [[spoiler:the Witch-King himself]] with ease!
* AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one.
* BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this.
* BadassGrandpa: Much like Gandalf and Saruman.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman.
* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]]
* BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats.
** AnimalsNotToScale: Actually an aversion. At first, Jackson and his production team thought they'd have to design larger than real life rabbits, designing them from scratch so they'd have to spend extra time figuring out their musculature and movement. There was also some slight worry that rabbits
* CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' he is only mentioned in passing. However, he was cut out of TheMovie of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', so perhaps it's only fair.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies with the Eagles and Beorn. As Gandalf told him to gather the birds and beasts it's likely he was responsible for this.
* ChekhovsGun: WordOfGod says that his staff is the second one used by Gandalf in ''LOTR'', the first having been taken from him by Saruman. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mf54ackBnm1ql00oy.png See here]].
* CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People like Elrond and Saruman don't take him seriously at all, but
** And apparently, it wasn't just any [[spoiler:old wraith in a dark cloak. Evidence points out
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: Eccentric as he may be, he has
** Is the most powerful wizard in Middle-earth besides Saruman and Gandalf, and won't clean the bird poop from his hair.
** Which might be a reference to
* {{Druid}}:
* {{Foil}}: To Saruman. They both live in isolation as
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He
* FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: His hair is a bird's nest, so you know it. He also uses his powers to bring back a hedgehog from near death.
* GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman.
* TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends
* HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits.
* NatureLover: He spends most of his time in the Greenwood looking after the plants and animals (in addition to defeating Sauron, he was also tasked by Yavanna to look after the wildlife of Middle-earth). When the Necromancer's Shadow turns it into Mirkwood he freaks out, because not even he can stop it.
** His home Rhosgobel has a tree growing through it -- it wasn't built ''around'' the tree, a sapling sprouted up in his house and over many years grew into a huge tree and deformed the walls of his home, which he just modified and repaired to fit around it. As Jackson explained in a behind-the-scenes video, it's not that Radagast didn't ''notice'' that the sapling was getting too big, but he is firmly against taking ''any'' life if he doesn't have to, he doesn't destroy, so he just adapted to make space and let nature be. A complete contrast with Saruman's future views about nature, that forests as just fuel to burn.
* NiceHat: An [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushanka ushanka]], specifically.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He gets this in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. His silly aspects are mostly gone, and he becomes more grim and serious as he says "the world is in grave danger" when he realizes the full extent of the
* ThePigPen: He's got a bird's nest in his hair, so it's natural that he's got a huge trail of accumulated and dried-up bird dung down the side of his head.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: His only mentioned power. Most characters seem to think it's a bit useless.
** As [=McCoy=] explained in his behind-the-scenes video on Radagast, this is sort of in real life, too: [=McCoy=] already knew how to make very accurate bird-calls and has been doing so for years. So when Radagast whistles and chirps at birds, that ''isn't'' an added sound effect, that's the actor actually "speaking fluent Bird".
* StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No explanation is ever given why he never appears in ''The Lord of the Rings''. The last we see of him is leading the Eagles into battle against the Orcs in ''The Battle of Five Armies''.
* TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]]
* TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf:
-->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap?
-->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap.
* TheWorfEffect: He's a very powerful Wizard, but that fact he's unable to stop the Necromancer from corrupting the Greenwood into Mirkwood save for his home in Rhosgobel shows just how deadly that threat to Middle-earth is.
* WillfullyWeak: Like the rest of the Wizards, Radagast is actually operating at only a fraction of his full power. This is deliberate as the Valar decided to clothe the Wizards in the
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* ShadowArchetype: To Thorin, who almost becomes just as greedy and insane as his grandfather. Luckily he snaps out of it before it is too late.
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Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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Patriarch of one
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* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan:BadassAdorable: His rabbits serve as this.
** BadassGrandpa/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but when badassery is called, look at him taking out Thehead Witch King of it, in fact.
Angmar.
*CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: SportsBewareOfTheSillyOnes: Eccentric as he may be, he has the most ridiculously extreme nose guts to be badass.
* {{Druid}}: His build as this.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He like Saruman (Curumo) and Gandalf (Olorin) of the Istari are really angels in themovie -- guise of old sturdy men.
* TimeAbyss: Being one of thespecial features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'',Maiar which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased longwere created before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.time, expect him to be this.
* TheClan:
** BadassGrandpa/CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but when badassery is called, look at him taking out The
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports
* {{Druid}}: His build as this.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: He like Saruman (Curumo) and Gandalf (Olorin) of the Istari are really angels in the
* TimeAbyss: Being one of the
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'',
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took
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* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
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* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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*GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit TheClan: The head of adventure it, in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.fact.
*HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
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!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Radagast the Brown [-(Sylvester McCoy)-]
One of the Istari, a Maiar of Yavanna sent from Aman to Middle Earth to oppose Sauron. He has an affinity to nature.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick the living hell out of the Witch King of Angmar.
* {{Druid}}: His build as this.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Istari are really angels disguised as old yet strong men.
** BadassGrandpa
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric but if badassery is to be called, he can be this.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick the living hell out of the Witch King of Angmar.
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Istari are really angels disguised as old yet strong men.
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* BadassAdorable: His rabbits are this.
** BadassGrandpa
BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
*BewareOfTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric but if badassery is to be called, he can be this.
TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
*CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports theliving hell most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
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* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather."deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
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*CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by several decades.
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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BadassAdorable: His rabbits are this.
** BadassGrandpa
*TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
BewareOfTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric but if badassery is to be called, he can be this.
*CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: SportsCrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
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* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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* BadassAdorable: His rabbits are this.
** BadassGrandpa
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric but if badassery is to be called, he can be this.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick the living hell out of the Witch King of Angmar.
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!!Radagast the Brown [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
One of the Istari sent from Aman to Middle Earth to oppose Sauron. He has an affinity to nature.
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* BadassAdorable: His rabbits are this.
** BadassGrandpa
* BewareOfTheSillyOnes: He may be eccentric but if badassery is to be called, he can be this.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sure he may look weird but he was able to kick the living hell out of the Witch King of Angmar.
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!!Otho Sackville-Baggins [-(Brian Hotter)-]
Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: He's Bilbo's first-cousin and closest living heir, and therefore, his ambition was to succeed Bilbo as head of the Baggins family and be head of two families at once. Bilbo thwarts this by officially naming Frodo as the heir to Bag End.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family.
* PreppyName: Though his father was a Baggins, he inherited headship of the Sackville family through his mother, Camellia. Thus, Otho effectively founded a new family.
* TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30.
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!!Beorn [-(Mikael Persbrandt)-]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
!!Beorn [-(Mikael Persbrandt)-]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Dáin Ironfoot]]
!!Dáin Ironfoot [-(Creator/BillyConnolly)-]
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[[caption-width-right:380:"I will not stand down before any elf! Let alone this faithless woodland sprite!"]]
->''"Good mornin'! How are we all? I've a wee proposition if you wouldn't mind giving me a few moments of yer time. Would ye consider... just SODDING OFF!"''
Lord of the Iron Hills, to the east of Erebor, and kinsman of Thorin. Future King of Durin's Folk and King Under the Mountain.
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** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Dáin Ironfoot]]
!!Dáin Ironfoot [-(Creator/BillyConnolly)-]
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[[caption-width-right:380:"I will not stand down before any elf! Let alone this faithless woodland sprite!"]]
->''"Good mornin'! How are we all? I've a wee proposition if you wouldn't mind giving me a few moments of yer time. Would ye consider... just SODDING OFF!"''
Lord of the Iron Hills, to the east of Erebor, and kinsman of Thorin. Future King of Durin's Folk and King Under the Mountain.
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake
->''"Good mornin'! How are we all? I've a wee proposition if you wouldn't mind giving me a few moments of
Lord of the
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* AllThereInTheManual: The movie leaves this unaddressed, but in the books he becomes King Under the Mountain after [[spoiler: Thorin's death]] and his sons become Kings after him until the end of Durin's line.
* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's horns, had a tendency to headbutt his foes (like a charging boar), and rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass
* {{Badass}}: Showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting a helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer and managing to ride a giant pig to war.
* BadassFamily: Thorin's second cousin and very Badass.
* BadassMoustache: Grown into the shape of a pair of tusks.
* BattleCry: "To battle, sons of Durin, to battle!"
* BigDamnHeroes: His arrival not only safes Thorin, but probably the elves from the Orcish armies as well.
* BloodKnight: Dáin's very excited at the prospect of splitting some elvish (and later Orcish) skulls.
* BoisterousBruiser: He goes into battle practically roaring with glee. When the action focuses on him, he can always be heard bellowing.
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfoot spends most of his speech calling the Elves pathetic and worthless.
* SignatureMove: Dáin has his hammer, but when the fight gets too close-up for him to use it, he tends to resort to a headbutt, a.k.a. the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbutt Glasgow Kiss]]" -- possibly a nod to his actor's background (see ViolentGlaswegian, below).
* SirSwearsALot: His swearing is all PG-13, but that still makes him the foulest mouth in Middle-earth by a huge margin.
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent for the role, and Dáin is amazingly violent and aggressive.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen after the end of the Battle of the Five Armies. In the books he became King Under the Mountain after Thorin.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is implied to have been on the receiving end of this from Thorin when he refused to commit any forces to help retake Erebor.
** Though Smaug is basically a GodzillaThreshold that no sane person would ever think to cross, and universally considered a fool's errand. As soon as word reaches Dáin that Smaug is ''dead'', however, he quickly comes riding with his army to Thorin's aid. Everything up to but not including a dragon, he's up for - be it a large Elf army (supplemented by a couple hundred angry Men of Laketown), or charging head-first into a larger army of Orcs.
* YouHaveGotTobeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
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!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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* AncestralWeapon: It's not outight stated, but he seems to be wielding Thráin's (Thorin's father) war-hammer.
* AnimalMotifs: He wears spikes on his beard that resemble boar's horns, had a tendency to headbutt his foes (like a charging boar), and rides a boar to battle.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Continuing the trend of royalty being badass
* {{Badass}}: Showcases supreme badassitude during the Battle of the Five Armies, headbutting a helmeted orc to unconsciousness with his bare forehead, smacking dozens of orcs with his enormous hammer and managing to ride a giant pig to war.
* BadassFamily: Thorin's second cousin and very Badass.
* BadassMoustache: Grown into the shape of a pair of tusks.
* BattleCry: "To battle, sons of Durin, to battle!"
* BigDamnHeroes: His arrival not only safes Thorin, but probably the elves from the Orcish armies as well.
* BloodKnight: Dáin's very excited at the prospect of splitting some elvish (and later Orcish) skulls.
* BoisterousBruiser: He goes into battle practically roaring with glee. When the action focuses on him, he can always be heard bellowing.
* BraidsOfAction: He has braided hair and is a beast in the battlefield.
* TheCavalry: Arrives to help his cousin and the other Dwarves against the Elves and men.
* CavalryRefusal: Off-screen. In the first film, Thorin states he asked for Dáin's help, but he refused to go up against Smaug. He makes up for it by arriving in the final battle, however.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Dáin Ironfoot casually asks Thorin if he has a plan or if they should just keep murdering Orcs mid-battle.
* ChekhovsGunman: Mentioned only in passing in the first movie, when Thorin says Dáin will not send him aid. He does make an appearance in the third film, however.
* CombinationAttack: His Dwarves achieve a whole lot of these with the Elves. After the Dwarves form their double-shield height phalanx against Azog's initial force, Thranduil's blademasters vault over the phalanx and into the Orc army, occasionally jumping off shields the Dwarves held up as platforms at the last second.
* DemotedToExtra: In the "Appendices," Dáin played a major role in the Battle of Azanulbizar; the Iron Hills Dwarves turned the tide of the battle, and Dáin himself killed Azog to avenge his father. Presumably, Dáin's role was scaled back after the decision was made to keep Azog alive. Perhaps in an attempt to make up for it, Dáin has a lot more screentime during the Battle of the Five Armies than he ever had in the book.
* {{Determinator}}: Gandalf notes that Dáin is even more stubborn than Thorin when he's set on something.
* TheDreaded: A minor case, but when he arrives Gandalf's (and the elves's) reaction is something akin to "Oh God ''help us all''."
* DropTheHammer: Wields a war hammer in battle, and caves in many a skull.
* EleventhHourRanger: Joins the Company to defend Erebor just as the situation is direst for them.
* FieryRedhead: Goes along with his ViolentGlaswegian status.
* FoeTossingCharge: In the beginning of the battle, he charges through Orc ranks mounted on his boar wielding the war-hammer without slowing down.
* FullBoarAction: Rides into battle on a boar.
* HardHead: He headbutts helmet-wearing Orcs several times and comes out none worse for the wear.
* HeroicSecondWind: He and his Dwarves have this when [[spoiler: Thorin emerges from the mountain to lead them]], and manage to mount one last counterattack.
-->'''Ironfoot''': The King! To the King!
* IncomingHam: The very first thing Dáin does is look at the elves and do a long-winded request for them to SOD OFF!
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Compared to his cousin, he's far more aggressive and unreasonable, but he still takes the time to hug Thorin in the middle of a battle.
* {{Leitmotif}}: He has a track called, fittingly enough, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clCn2we8ew Ironfoot]]" that plays in his finest moments, namely in his BigDamnHeroes arrival.
* LargeHam: The scenery is in shambles when he's through chewing on it.
* LeeroyJenkins: A positive example. A massive Orc army appears, Elves and Men just stare in awe and horror, frozen in place. Ironfoot and his men, meanwhile, just fall in between them and start killing without second thought.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Stands out from the rest of the Dwarves by taking on traits that Dwarves have developed since Tolkien's works, a heavy Glaswegian accent and the foulest mouth in Middle Earth.
* RedBaron: "Ironfoot" is his epithet, not his surname. One infers that he acquired the nickname for being extremely stubborn, as Gandalf has said, or because of his tendency to wear Iron boots to battle.
-->'''Gandalf''': It is Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills. Thorin's cousin. I've always found Thorin the more reasonable of the two.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He rides in front of his army before joining a battle, showing how he isn't one to shy away from a fight.
* ScrewYouElves: Ironfoot spends most of his speech calling the Elves pathetic and worthless.
* SignatureMove: Dáin has his hammer, but when the fight gets too close-up for him to use it, he tends to resort to a headbutt, a.k.a. the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbutt Glasgow Kiss]]" -- possibly a nod to his actor's background (see ViolentGlaswegian, below).
* SirSwearsALot: His swearing is all PG-13, but that still makes him the foulest mouth in Middle-earth by a huge margin.
* UseYourHead: His preferred melee attack. Even without a helmet, he can still knock armored orcs out.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Connolly keeps his accent for the role, and Dáin is amazingly violent and aggressive.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen after the end of the Battle of the Five Armies. In the books he became King Under the Mountain after Thorin.
* WhatTheHellHero: Is implied to have been on the receiving end of this from Thorin when he refused to commit any forces to help retake Erebor.
** Though Smaug is basically a GodzillaThreshold that no sane person would ever think to cross, and universally considered a fool's errand. As soon as word reaches Dáin that Smaug is ''dead'', however, he quickly comes riding with his army to Thorin's aid. Everything up to but not including a dragon, he's up for - be it a large Elf army (supplemented by a couple hundred angry Men of Laketown), or charging head-first into a larger army of Orcs.
* YouHaveGotTobeKiddingMe: "Aw, COME ON!" is his only reaction when he notices that the biggest Orc army of recent times has just arrived in Erebor without any warning.
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[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/248px-Treebeard_6197.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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[[folder:Thráin]]
!!Thráin II [-(Michael Mizrahi)-]
[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thrain1_995.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''"Tell Thorin that I love him! Will you do that? Will you tell my son that I loved him?"'']]
->''"Azog means to kill us all! One by one, he will destroy the line of Durin! But by my life, he shall not take my son! You will stay here!"''
Father of Thorin and previous King of Durin's Folk. Died in the dungeons of Dol Guldur, but not before encountering Gandalf and giving him the map and key needed to get into Erebor. Also lost Durin's Ring of Power to Azog.
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* CurbStompBattle: Defending Erebor against Smaug.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing one of the Seven Dwarf rings and cut off the forefinger to get it.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the defense of Erebor from the front, alongside his son.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills him. He has trouble remembering Thorin and what happened to him.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, but still seems up for a fight.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ScarsAreForever: Has what looks like an ugly burn scar over his left eye.
* WarriorPrince: He may be Thrór's son, but he's a Dwarf and Dwarves are always badass.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the Extended Edition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldur for a very long time. When Gandalf finally finds him, he has been driven nearly completely mad, and is soon after [[spoiler:killed by the Necromancer.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Attacked Azog ahead of Thorin after his father Thrór was beheaded.
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[[folder:Thrór, King under the Mountain]]
!!Thrór [-(Jeffrey Thomas)-]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_hobbit_-_an_unexpected_journey_avi_002748765_400.jpg]]
Father of Thráin and grandfather of Thorin. Previous King of Erebor, once the mightiest of the Dwarf Lords and the first owner of the Arkenstone. Unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Moria, but was unable to do so in the face of heavy casualties and the presence of Durin's Bane, not to mention his own death in combat against Azog the Defiler.
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* BigNo: When he drops the Arkenstone into a huge pile of gold, which is then swept away by Smaug.
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Under the Mountain.
* CurbStompBattle: Smaug's attack on Erebor. Then the Battle of Azanulbizar after his death until Thorin managed to chop off Azog's hand and rally his troops to victory.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more than most other Dwarves, given his GoldFever.
* PerilousOldFool: His attempt to retake Moria from the orcs was almost bound to fail. It ended up failing anyway, because of the PyrrhicVictory.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies in the prologue, which is set decades before the events of the story.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawn to the mountain in the first place. Then again, as stated above, he was quite likely under the influence of one of the Rings of Power, so how much control he had over himself is debateable.
* WarriorPrince: Fought on the front lines against Azog's army.
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[[folder:Beorn]]
!!Beorn [-(Mikael Persbrandt)-]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beorn_thehobbit_3284.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
[[quoteright:248:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/248px-Treebeard_6197.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in respones to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmm, don't be hasty, now...
%%* WhenTreesAttack
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!!Characters from deleted scenes.
[[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]]
!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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[[folder:Belladonna Took]]
!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thehobbitbilbosmother_7330.png]]
One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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[[folder:Otho Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Otho Sackville-Baggins [-(Brian Hotter)-]
Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: He's Bilbo's first-cousin and closest living heir, and therefore, his ambition was to succeed Bilbo as head of the Baggins family and be head of two families at once. Bilbo thwarts this by officially naming Frodo as the heir to Bag End.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family.
* PreppyName: Though his father was a Baggins, he inherited headship of the Sackville family through his mother, Camellia. Thus, Otho effectively founded a new family.
* TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30.
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[[folder:Thráin]]
!!Thráin II [-(Michael Mizrahi)-]
[[quoteright:280:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thrain1_995.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:280:''"Tell Thorin that I love him! Will you do that? Will you tell my son that I loved him?"'']]
->''"Azog means to kill us all! One by one, he will destroy the line of Durin! But by my life, he shall not take my son! You will stay here!"''
Father of Thorin and previous King of Durin's Folk. Died in the dungeons of Dol Guldur, but not before encountering Gandalf and giving him the map and key needed to get into Erebor. Also lost Durin's Ring of Power to Azog.
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* CurbStompBattle: Defending Erebor against Smaug.
* DisappearedDad: To Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* DropTheHammer: In the film prologue, he wields a ginormous hammer.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* {{Fingore}}: When Azog defeated Thráin, he saw he was wearing one of the Seven Dwarf rings and cut off the forefinger to get it.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the defense of Erebor from the front, alongside his son.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After the years he has spent imprisoned in Dol Guldur, he attacks his old friend Gandalf and almost kills him. He has trouble remembering Thorin and what happened to him.
* HandicappedBadass: He is missing one eye, but still seems up for a fight.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so they didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* ScarsAreForever: Has what looks like an ugly burn scar over his left eye.
* WarriorPrince: He may be Thrór's son, but he's a Dwarf and Dwarves are always badass.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As his scenes in the Extended Edition of ''Desolation'' show, he has been held captive in Dol Guldur for a very long time. When Gandalf finally finds him, he has been driven nearly completely mad, and is soon after [[spoiler:killed by the Necromancer.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Attacked Azog ahead of Thorin after his father Thrór was beheaded.
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[[folder:Thrór, King under the Mountain]]
!!Thrór [-(Jeffrey Thomas)-]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_hobbit_-_an_unexpected_journey_avi_002748765_400.jpg]]
Father of Thráin and grandfather of Thorin. Previous King of Erebor, once the mightiest of the Dwarf Lords and the first owner of the Arkenstone. Unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim Moria, but was unable to do so in the face of heavy casualties and the presence of Durin's Bane, not to mention his own death in combat against Azog the Defiler.
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* BigNo: When he drops the Arkenstone into a huge pile of gold, which is then swept away by Smaug.
* CoolCrown: He wears a thick, helmet-like crown as King Under the Mountain.
* CurbStompBattle: Smaug's attack on Erebor. Then the Battle of Azanulbizar after his death until Thorin managed to chop off Azog's hand and rally his troops to victory.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly averted in his case; while Smaug's attacking, Thrór races to grab the Arkenstone, but conveniently loses it in the chaos and is dragged away by Thorin.
* DoomedHomeTown: The Lonely Mountain.
* TheExile: Since Smaug is squatting in Erebor.
* FrontlineGeneral: Leads the combined forces of the seven dwarven clans at Azanulbizar, which leads to his death.
* GoldFever: Described by Bilbo as a literal psychological sickness. Considering that Thrór was in possession of the greatest of the Seven Rings of Power given to dwarves, which did indeed make their holders both extremely rich and extremely greedy, Bilbo's uninformed diagnosis isn't too far off.
* KickTheDog: Baiting Thranduil, then denying him the jewels that he ''clearly'' wants.
* OffWithHisHead: Azog beheads him and [[DecapitationPresentation holds it up for all to see]], before throwing it at Thorin's feet.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Even more than most other Dwarves, given his GoldFever.
* PerilousOldFool: His attempt to retake Moria from the orcs was almost bound to fail. It ended up failing anyway, because of the PyrrhicVictory.
* PosthumousCharacter: He dies in the prologue, which is set decades before the events of the story.
* RichesToRags: Smaug's attack came without warning, so he didn't have the chance to evacuate and salvage any of the gold.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If he hadn't been so greedy and gathered so much gold, Smaug might not have been drawn to the mountain in the first place. Then again, as stated above, he was quite likely under the influence of one of the Rings of Power, so how much control he had over himself is debateable.
* WarriorPrince: Fought on the front lines against Azog's army.
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[[folder:Beorn]]
!!Beorn [-(Mikael Persbrandt)-]
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beorn_thehobbit_3284.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But I hate Orcs more. What do you need?"'']]
->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"''
Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The scenes at Beorn's house are some of the funniest in the book with Gandalf's elaborate scheme to gain the cranky-but-decent Beorn's hospitality and he's quite cheerful. There's no LastOfHisKind, either -- in fact, there may have been more like him, because his sons formed their own clan by the time of ''Lord of the Rings''.
** The elaborate scheme made it into the Extended Edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book.
* {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear.
* AntiHero: He may be a decent guy with an affinity to animals, but he doesn't like Dwarves and only agrees to help the Company having heard of Azog's pursuit.
* {{Badass}}: He's the last living skinchanger in Middle-Earth. He didn't get that way by being easy to kill.
* BadassBaritone: As befitting a man of his stature.
* BadassBeard: A massive one, including a truly prodigious quantity of body hair, due to his alternate form.
* BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe.
* TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form.
* BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead.
* TheCavalry: Arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies riding one of the eagles. Then jumps off the eagles, turns into a bear mid-air and rampages through the Orc army.
* TheDreaded: Orcs refer to his bear form as "The Beast", and Azog was so afraid of him he wouldn't go after the company while he was nearby.
* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]
* EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs.
* GentleGiant: ZigZagged. His bear form is vicious, and he dislikes Dwarves and Orcs. On the other hand, he cares deeply for animals, and is seen cradling a tiny mouse in his huge hands. He's also genuinely intrigued by Bilbo and doesn't appear to harbor any hostility towards hobbits and other small, peace-loving creatures.
* LastOfHisKind: He's the last skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog.
* LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given.
* MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form.
* MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English.
* MorphicResonance: The design team were keen that he didn't simply appear as a large, bearded man in his humanoid form. He was therefore given a mane-like hairstyle and facial prosthetics that suggested a bestial, AmbiguouslyHuman quality to help distinguish him as a race apart.
* NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse.
* ProductionForeshadowing: Some promotional material prior to the release of ''An Unexpected Journey'' featured Gandalf talking to Beorn in his bear form. The character first appears in ''The Desolation of Smaug''. [[http://heroisx.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thehobbit_1024x768_beorn.jpg See here]].
* ShapeShifter: Known as a "skin-changer" in-universe, Beorn can assume the form of a giant black bear.
* ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor.
* TraumaInn: His giant-sized home provides a much needed respite for the Company, following their escape from the Goblin King's brood and Azog's wargs at the close of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
* YouShallNotPass: A variant, the orcs aren't foolhardy enough to tangle with him in bear form which allow the Company to reach the forest without resistance.
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[[folder:Treebeard]]
!!Treebeard [-(Creator/JohnRhysDavies)-]
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[[caption-width-right:248:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']]
->''I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore.''
Treebeard, or Fangorn in Elvish, is the second-oldest being in Middle-earth (after the very first Elf to awaken far in the east, Círdan the Shipwright, still living in Middle-Earth), and the namesake of one of the only remaining primordial forests in Middle-earth. Despite his great age, Treebeard is not counted among the Wise, and is quite unsophisticated.
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* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.
* BadassGrandpa: He's so old that he refers to the wizards as "young Saruman" and "young Gandalf."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even points this out to Merry.
%%* ConstantlyCurious
* GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge indstrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd".
%%* GreenAesop
* HeroicNeutral: As he says, he's not participating in any of this War of the Ring stuff because everyone's forgotten about caring for the woods he loves.
%%* HiddenDepths
* NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in respones to the direct attack on Fangorn.
* OverlyLongName: His real name is the story of his life, according to him. Like most Ents, he's therefore [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
-->'''Treebeard:''' You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in [[StarfishLanguage Old Entish.]] And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
* PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.)
* TimeAbyss: Perhaps the third-oldest physical creature (not counting [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maiar]]) in Middle-Earth. Círdan, having awoken with the first generation of Elves at Cuiviénen way back in the [[TheTimeOfMyths Years of the Trees]], is older still, and Tom Bombadil is older than the world.
* VerbalTic: Hmm, don't be hasty, now...
%%* WhenTreesAttack
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!!Characters from deleted scenes.
[[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]]
!!Gerontius "The Old" Took [-(Dan Hennah)-]
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Patriarch of one of the two greatest Hobbit families and Thain of the Shire, the last (ceremonial) representative of the fallen Kings of Arnor. Grandfather of Bilbo and great-grandfather of Frodo.
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* BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather.
* TheClan: The head of it, in fact.
* CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took.
* GagNose: Sports the most ridiculously extreme nose in the movie -- the special features reveal Peter Jackson did this deliberately as a joke on Dan Hennah.
* HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect.
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[[folder:Belladonna Took]]
!!Belladonna Took [-(Sonia Forbes-Adam)-]
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One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.
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* FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Despite the negative connotations of "deadly nightshade", the name is derived from the Italian for "beautiful woman".
* GoodParents: By all accounts, Bungo and Belladonna were very loving and attentive parents who raised Bilbo to be a strong-minded and compassionate person. Her willingness to accept a little bit of adventure in life also contributed to Bilbo's curiosity and thirst for exploration, something that Belladonna actively nurtured in him.
* HappyFlashback: Appears in the above mentioned flashback, where we see her gently admonish a very young Bilbo after he whacks Gandalf with his wooden sword. It's a sweet cameo, and nice to see she and Bilbo together in less troubled times.
* PosthumousCharacter: Whilst she appears in the flashback, mentioned above, by the time of the events depicted in the main story, she has been dead for around ten years.
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%%!!Old Gammidge
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%%!!Old Hob
%% * HappyFlashback
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[[folder:Otho Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Otho Sackville-Baggins [-(Brian Hotter)-]
Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.
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* FeudingFamilies: He's Bilbo's first-cousin and closest living heir, and therefore, his ambition was to succeed Bilbo as head of the Baggins family and be head of two families at once. Bilbo thwarts this by officially naming Frodo as the heir to Bag End.
* HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family.
* PreppyName: Though his father was a Baggins, he inherited headship of the Sackville family through his mother, Camellia. Thus, Otho effectively founded a new family.
* TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30.
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