History Characters / MiddleEarthFilmOtherCharacters

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Even although Radagast is the main example in the three main Istari, the way Gandalf seems to have forgotten their very names gives out this vibe. However, it could be simply that Gandalf didn't have much contact with them and cannot honestly remember what earthly names they chose before they left for their mission.

* TheLastDance: He calls the attack on Isengard "The Last March of The Ents", believing that he and his brothers all walk to their doom. Rather inaccurate, [[CurbStompBattle considering they stomp so badly the Ents take almost no casualties in the attack]].

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Octavio Rojas (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Maynardo Zavala (Latin American Spanish dub)

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Eduardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish dub)

** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out.

* DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]]

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Nobody

* AllTheOtherReindeer: Even although Radagast is the main example in the three main Istari, the way Gandalf seems to have forgotten their very names gives out this vibe. However, it could be simply that Gandalf didn't have much contact with them and cannot honestly remember what earthly names they chose before they left for the south and east.
* AscendedExtra: Mildly. Here, they get to be mentioned by their color and title, while in the books nothing is ever said other than there are five Istari out there.

* 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 the Five Armies'' or, in the extended edition, standing besides to Gandalf and Beorn in Thorin's funeral.

[[folder:The Eagles]]
!!The Eagles of Manwë
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!!! '''Species:''' Eagle
!!! '''Appear in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''

->''"Eagles! The Eagles are coming!"''
-->--'''Pippin'''
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Giant and sentient birds that are the heralds of Manwë and were originally sent to Middle-earth by the Valar to keep an eye on the exiled Ñoldorin Elves. They have since aided the Free Peoples in their fight against the evils of Morgoth and Sauron for millennia.

* AnimalsNotToScale: They are much, much larger than normal eagles, so large in fact that they can comfortably carry dwarves and hobbits and even Gandalf on their backs whilst in flight.
* TheCavalry: They have a tendency of performing this role ''a lot'' for our heroes:
** Gwaihir (the Lord of the Eagles) rescues Gandalf from his prison atop Orthanc in ''The Fellowship of the Ring''.
** A group of them arrive during the Battle at the Black Gate in ''The Return of the King'', attacking and fending off the Nazgûl and their giant Fell Beasts.
** Two of them arrive just in time to rescue Frodo and Sam from the erupting Mount Doom, also in ''The Return of the King''.
** A group of them arrive to fight off Azog and his orc pack and rescue the Company at the end of ''An Unexpected Journey''.
** A group of them again arrive with Radagast and Beorn just as things are starting to look very bleak indeed for the good guys in ''The Battle of the Five Armies'' and then swiftly turn the tide of the battle, ploughing through the armies of orcs with ease.
* DivineBirds: They are the heralds of Manwë, the King of the [[OurGodsAreGreater Valar]] and the King of all Arda, the entire world of which Middle-earth is just a continent.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: A variation on the trope, as they are large enough to be ridden and they do carry various characters throughout the films, but it is ''not'' their primary purpose. They are sentient, highly intelligent and non-domesticated birds who merely assist the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in times of dire need.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: The eagles are mighty, elegant and noble birds and they are firmly on the side of good.
* TheVoiceless: They are never shown speaking in the films, even though their literary counterparts could talk. However, the ''Lord of the Rings'' video game ''VideoGame/WarInTheNorth'' (which takes place in the continuity of the Peter Jackson films) confirms that the eagles ''are'' capable of speech.

!The Shire

[[folder:In General]]
!!Hobbits

->''"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream..."''
-->--'''- Sam'''

Hobbits are the main focus of the first half of ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' and supply the primary characters of the rest of the story. They're merely an offshoot of Men, but they and everybody else (except Elves) view them as a separate people. They're most notable for their small size, about three or four feet tall; Hobbits usually have curly brown hair (on their heads ''and'' the tops of their feet) and a light tan complexion, looking very much like small, plump Men. They live primarily in the Shire, where they blissfully ignore the rest of Middle-earth aside from the occasional traveling Dwarves, living lives of leisure, gossip, feasting, and frequent parties. Despite their softness, Hobbits have good common sense and sober up quickly when trouble comes calling, taking up arms to protect their communities.
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A few Hobbits also live in the town of Bree, east of the Shire, where they mingle freely with the local "Big People" and are on the whole a little more worldly.
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Like all Mortals, Hobbits have the "Gift of Men" (see below).

* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** The Fellowship Hobbits (arguably aside from Sam) pretty much play this straight. Frodo ''[[PrettyBoy especially]]''. In the books, Hobbits are widely plain and portly but good-natured.
** ''Film/TheHobbit'' has the younger Bilbo hit with, too, even if he is kept as middle-aged.
* {{Arcadia}}: Subverted in that it is no more a utopian paradise than any other nice place to live. While the Shire does have the idyllic, rural and unspoiled look of the typical Arcadia, the Hobbits are portrayed as very parochial, somewhat small-minded, and generally uncaring of what goes on outside the Shire.
* AudienceSurrogate: The Shire is the rural hinterland of nowhere as far as most big, important historical events of Middle-earth are concerned, and the Hobbits are largely ignorant of what's been going on outside their borders. They are thus used (and intended) to receive some of the exposition the audience needs. (Of course, lots of other exposition had to go into the Appendices.)
* BadassNormal / BadassAdorable: Oh yes. Just ask the ones who ventured 'there and back again'.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Hobbits will fight if push comes to shove.
* BigEater: Hobbits are really, really into food. Maybe it's their small size giving them a hyperactive metabolism, but they eat more than full-sized Men.
* TheClan: Prefer to live in large family groups almost like Scottish clans, although usually not for self-defense reasons.
* CloseKnitCommunity: Gandalf's appreciation for Hobbit-kind began when, in the brutal Long Winter of 2758-2759, he saw neighbors who had little enough for themselves taking pity on their neighbors and sharing. It was through this community spirit that the Shire survived.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Hobbits don't usually wear shoes since the tops of their feet grow curly hair and the soles are thick as well. When they do wear shoes, Dwarf boots are good enough.
* TheEveryman: Specifically created, more or less, to be an AudienceSurrogate, splicing modern Englishmen into sprawling fantasy epics without overly straining the elaborate fantasy mythology that supported them.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The culture of the Shire is based on Tolkien's idealized view of the English countryside... though they're also not without rural England's perceived faults as well, such as small-mindedness, distrust of outsiders and the outside world, dislike of change, and an overly provincial worldview.
* {{Hobbits}}: TropeNamer, TropeCodifier, and quite likely the UrExample.
* HomeGuard: Their primary defense is from a militia called the Shire-muster. Only a few times in the Shire's history has the Muster ever been called to military duty. The last time before the story opens was hundreds of years ago.
* {{Jerkass}}: Only a couple, like the Sackville-Bagginses and Déagol. Sméagol rather transcends Jerkass.
* MadeOfIron: They are adapted to volcanic regions, and so the fumes in the Sammath Naur did not kill Frodo, Sam, or Gollum.
* MustHaveNicotine: All Hobbits are prone to this, with the Shire being a major producer of excellent pipeweed.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: The upper-class hobbits, like the Baggins and Brandybuck families.

[[folder:Rosie Cotton]]
!!Rose "Rosie" Cotton
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!!! '''Species:''' Hobbit
!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Sarah [=McLeod=]
!!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''

->''"Rosie Cotton dancing. She had ribbons in her hair. If ever I were to marry someone, it would have been her. It would have been her."''
-->--'''Sam'''

The barmaid of the Green Dragon and the beloved of Samwise Gamgee.

* FloralThemeNaming: Like a majority of female hobbits, she is named after a flower.
* HappilyMarried: With Sam at the end of ''The Return of the King''. Anyone who has read the [[AllInTheManual appendices]] of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' knows that they [[ExplosiveBreeder went on to have '''thirteen''' children together.]]
* MyGirlBackHome: She is this for Sam, one of the reasons he is so determined to complete the quest and get back home to the Shire is so that he can marry her.
* TheyDo: We see her and Sam get married right at the end of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy.

[[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/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing 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.

* 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.
* SitcomArchNemesis: To Bilbo.
* 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:Otho Sackville-Baggins]]
!!Otho Sackville-Baggins

!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Brian Hotter, Peter Corrigan
!!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]''

Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

* 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: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.

* 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:Belladonna Took]]
!!Belladonna Took
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!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam

One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother.

* 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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* AnAxeToGrind: He is seen using one to chop some wood in the extended edition of ''DOS''.

* FlowerInHerHair: She wears a crown of flowers on her wedding day.

* FantasticRacism: He's not kindly disposed to Orcs, or anything that looks like it might be an Orc, thanks to their treatment of trees.

* 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".

* 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."

* 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.

If you are not hasty, check out his [[SelfDemonstrating/Treebeard self-demonstrating page]].

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Varies, but the Fellowship Hobbits (arguably aside from Sam) pretty much play this straight. Frodo ''[[PrettyBoy especially]]''. In the books, Hobbits are widely plain and portly but good-natured.
** ''Film/TheHobbit'' has the younger Bilbo hit with this, too, even if he is kept as middle-aged.
* AnachronismStew: Arguably, given that the setting itself is fictional rather than historical, but the hobbits' 18th and 19th Century-inspired clothing is several hundred years ahead of the rest of medieval Middle Earth.

* 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'']].

* 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.

* 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 do 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.]]

* 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'']].

* 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.

* 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".

[[folder: Radagast]]

* MissionControl: He doesn't fight alongside Gandlf, but his connection to nature enables him to receive messengers (most prominently butterflies) and send in allies such as the Eagles and Beorn.

* HappilyMarried: With Sam at the end of ''The Return of the King''. Anyone who has read the [[AllInTheManual appendices]] of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' knows that they [[MassiveNumberedSiblings went on to have ''thirteen'' children together.]]

* BadassBaritone: Voiced by John Rhys-Davies.

* ActuallySevenHundredYearsOld: He doesn't look ''young'', but he certainly doesn't look 2000.

!!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''

!!! '''Appear 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]]''

!!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''

!!! '''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]]''

!!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]''

* HappilyMarried: With Sam at the end of ''The Return of the King''. Anyone who has read the [[AllInTheManual appendices]] of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' knows that they [[*ManyNumberedSiblings went on to have ''thirteen'' children together.]]