History Characters / TheSilmarillion

* ArcherArchetype: The best that ever lived. Yes, better than Legolas. He was famous for his skill with his named bow Belthronding -- his epithet Cúthalion meant Strongbow. As a chief among Doriath's march-wardens, Beleg was more than capable of surviving and fighting alone in the wilderness, and very skilled in stealth and woodcraft. However, Beleg also recognized that he would need a sword as well when he left Doriath to find Túrin.

* DropTheHammer: His house fought with "Great maces like hammers".

* DropTheHammer: Described as wielding a war-hammer.

* EitherOrAncestry: In a slightly older draft of the Silmarillion, Manwë declares that all descendants of elves and men will be Men unless he himself offers them a choice (as he later would with Ëarendil and Elwing's boys). Therefore Christopher notes that Dior was mortal.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Half Man, one quarter Elf, one quarter [[PhysicalGod Maia.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Tuor. Both men lost their fathers in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, were raised partially by elves, spent time as a prisoner or outlaw, earned the love of an elven princess, and became a commander of one of the greatest Noldorin kingdoms. Unlike his much luckier cousin, Túrin would lose his elven admirer, accidentally end up in an incestuous relationship, and die by suicide at a rather young age. It's

* NiceToTheWaiter: One of the first things noted about him in his childhood was his compassion to his father's handicapped servant.

->''“Yeah Galadriel, I'm on to you, okay, how did you even say that with a straight face? Like have you completely wiped uncle Fëanor from memory? Immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings-- I'll give him one out of three and it ain't wisest.”''

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: He led his House in an absolutely ''savage'' CounterAttack against the forces of Morgoth during the fall of Gondolin, slaying uncounted hordes of orcs and even killing several ''balrogs''. According to the Original Tale in the Fall of Gondolin, this was the first time balrogs had ever been slain by elves or men.

* NobleFugitive: After the Fall of Númenor. His priority was to bring his people to a land where they could prosper and rule according to the ideals that his ex-kingdom had forsaken.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Passages in ''The Silmarillion'' imply that Isildur died because he didn't bother to set a watch. It seems that over time, Tolkien found the idea of Isildur's death being a result of his own stupidity unappealing, as this bears no resemblance to the account in ''Literature/UnfinishedTales''. His appearance there depicts him as a skilled commander and leader and every inch his father's son, and the disaster is credited not to his incompetence, but rather that he faced the orcs on the least favorable terms possible[[note]]He was outnumbered at least ten to one, and the terrain was so unfavorable his men could not charge. At the time of the attack, he was miles away from any stronghold or reinforcements. The orcs were led by lieutenants of Sauron that had survived the war, meaning they were far more determined and well-organized than Isildur or his men were expecting. And most chillingly, the Ring ''itself'' had a part to play, using its power to draw the orcs nearer and strengthen their resolve[[/note]], and he still made them pay in blood for every inch of ground.

* OedipusComplex: Rebelled against his father, stole his sword, and ran away with his mother.

* WouldHurtAChild: Tries to hurl his cousin Eärendil from the walls of Gondolin when they are seven.

* {{Bishonen}}: ''Dior the Fair''. Incidentally, Celegorm also had the epithet ''"the Fair"''.