| 1 | !![[center:'''Navigation:''' [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilm Main]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmTheFellowship The Fellowship]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmMen Men]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmElves Elves]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmTheCompany The Company]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmDwarves Dwarves]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmSauronsEvilForces Sauron's Evil Forces]] | [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmIndependentVillains Independent Villains]] | '''Other Characters''' ]] |
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| 3 | The unsorted characters from Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogies. |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 7 | [[folder:Beorn]] |
| 8 | !!Beorn |
| 9 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_beorn.jpg]] |
| 10 | [[caption-width-right:254:''"I don't like dwarves, they're greedy, and care nothing about the lives of creatures they deem lesser than themselves. But Orcs I hate more. What do you need?"'']] |
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| 12 | !!! '''Species:''' Skin-changer |
| 13 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Mikael Persbrandt |
| 14 | !!! '''Voiced by:''' Octavio Rojas (Latin American Spanish dub), Miglen Mirtchev (French dub) |
| 15 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug The Desolation of Smaug]]'' | ''[[Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies The Battle of the Five Armies]]'' |
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| 17 | |
| 18 | ->''"What did you go near goblins for? Stupid thing to do!"'' |
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| 20 | Chieftain of the Beornings of Western Mirkwood. Also a shapeshifter with the ability to transform into a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]]. |
| 21 | ---- |
| 22 | * 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''. |
| 23 | ** The elaborate scheme made it into the extended edition. Beorn, however, still acts quite hostile rather than the BoisterousBruiser he is in the book. |
| 24 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Beorn is harsher and more menacing to the dwarves than he was in the book, and is introduced attacking them in bear form. |
| 25 | * {{Animorphism}}: Has the ability to transform into a giant, savage bear. |
| 26 | * 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. |
| 27 | * BearsAreBadNews: His bear form is "unpredictable" - read: liable to chase down and eat passersby, and he's not easy to kill. |
| 28 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: He isn't evil by any means, but once he turns into his bear form he knows neither friend nor foe. |
| 29 | * TheBigGuy: He's of immense size and strength for a man, and retains his size and strength in bear-form. |
| 30 | * BigOlEyebrows: His enormous, fluffy brows obscure most of his forehead. |
| 31 | * 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. |
| 32 | * DemotedToExtra: After a decent showing in ''Desolation'', his appearance in ''Five Armies'' [[spoiler: is sadly reduced to a mere cameo.]] |
| 33 | ** He was planned to feature a subplot in the film, but it was cut out. |
| 34 | * 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. |
| 35 | * EnemyMine: With the Dwarves because of the Orcs. |
| 36 | * FantasticRacism: His hostility towards the dwarves is simply because he doesn't like their kind. Thankfully, he dislikes Orcs even more. |
| 37 | -->'''Beorn:''' I don't like dwarves. They're greedy... and blind. Blind to the lives of those they deem lesser than their own. But ''Orcs'' I hate more. |
| 38 | * 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. |
| 39 | * LastOfHisKind: He's the last living skin-changer in Middle-Earth, as many of the others were slain by Azog. |
| 40 | * LightningBruiser: He turns into a giant bear so it's a given. |
| 41 | * MadeASlave: A former slave of Azog, like many others of his race. He still has cuffs on his wrists in human form. |
| 42 | * MeaningfulName: "Beorn" is an Anglicisation of ''bjørn'', Danish/Norwegian for "bear". It also means 'warrior' in Old English. |
| 43 | * 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. |
| 44 | * NatureLover: Given his lines when he grabs a mouse. |
| 45 | * PetTheDog: In the deleted scene of [[spoiler: the funerals of Thorin, Kili, and Fili]] in ''The Battle of Five Armies'', he seems genuinely sad at [[spoiler: their deaths]] in spite of his immense dislike for [[spoiler: dwarves]]. |
| 46 | * 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]]. |
| 47 | * 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 on-screen there. |
| 48 | * ShellShockedVeteran: The orcs caged and tortured his people for sport, and he's now the only survivor. |
| 49 | * 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''. |
| 50 | * 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. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Treebeard]] |
| 54 | !!Treebeard |
| 55 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_treebeard.jpg]] |
| 56 | [[caption-width-right:254:''"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery."'']] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | !!! '''Species:''' Ent |
| 59 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/JohnRhysDavies |
| 60 | !!! '''Voiced by:''' Maynardo Zavala (Latin American Spanish dub), Creator/VincentGrass (French dub) |
| 61 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' |
| 62 | \ |
| 63 | |
| 64 | ->''"I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side. Nobody cares for the woods anymore."'' |
| 65 | \ |
| 66 | 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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| 68 | If you are not hasty, check out his [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Treebeard}} self-demonstrating page]]. |
| 69 | ---- |
| 70 | * 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. |
| 71 | * 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. |
| 72 | * BigNo: The howl Treebeard let out when he saw Saruman's devastation definitely sounded like one. |
| 73 | * CaptainObvious: The first (and only) thing that Treebeard and the other Ents agree about Merry and Pippin after ''hours'' of discussion? That Merry and Pippin are not orcs. |
| 74 | %%* ConstantlyCurious |
| 75 | * CompositeCharacter: While primarily based on his namesake of the book, he borrows some elements from the younger ent Quickbeam (being the hobbits' closest friend among the ents), who is missing from the film. The Extended Edition also gives some of Tom Bombadil's scenes and lines to him. |
| 76 | * FantasticRacism: Justified, He's not kindly disposed to Orcs, or anything that looks like it might be an Orc, thanks to their treatment of trees. |
| 77 | -->'''Treebeard:''' Never heard of a Hobbit before. Sounds like Orc mischief to me. They come with axes. They come with fire! Gnawing, breaking, biting, hacking, burning! Destroyers and usurpers, curse them! |
| 78 | * GaiasRevenge: Ents were made specifically to protect the forests from mortal depredations. No surprise that he and the Ents destroy the huge industrial factory that's been deforesting their "herd". |
| 79 | %%* GreenAesop |
| 80 | * 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. |
| 81 | %%* HiddenDepths |
| 82 | * 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]] after Saruman emptied Isengard for the siege on Helm's Deep. If Isengard's full might was present like Treebeard had feared, the battle might have been much closer to this. |
| 83 | * MightyGlacier: He's naturally a very slow walker but incredibly strong, a trait shared by the other Ents. |
| 84 | * NeutralNoLonger: Marches against Saruman in response to the direct attack on Fangorn. In addition, the extended cut shows the Huorns departing for Helm's Deep at the same time, to cut off the Uruk-hai retreat, resulting in a [[CurbStompBattle near-100% casualty rate]] of Saruman's army. |
| 85 | * PlantPerson: Essentially a big mobile tree. (Other Ents look more specificlly like particular tree species.) |
| 86 | * ScatterbrainedSenior: Either because of his sheer age, or just because of the Entish mindset, but he does seem a little odd sometimes, including zoning out talking to Merry and Pippin. |
| 87 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: His picture quote says it all. |
| 88 | * 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. |
| 89 | * VerbalTic: Hmmmm, don't be hasty, now... |
| 90 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Saruman used to have long chats, before the Ents went to sleep. Saruman's turn to evil put paid to that, and even more so when Treebeard finds he's cut down some of Fangorn. |
| 91 | * 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. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Radagast]] |
| 95 | !!Radagast the Brown |
| 96 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_radagast.jpg]] |
| 97 | [[caption-width-right:254:''"A dark power has found its way back into the world."'']] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | !!! '''Species:''' Maia |
| 100 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/SylvesterMcCoy |
| 101 | !!! '''Voiced by:''' Eduardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish dub), Gabriel Le Doze (French dub) |
| 102 | !!! '''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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| 105 | ->''"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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| 107 | 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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| 109 | * 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.]] |
| 110 | * 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! |
| 111 | * AdaptationalComicRelief: His book counterpart was more of a mysterious character than a funny one. |
| 112 | * 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. |
| 113 | * BadassAdorable: To an extent. His rabbits, on the other hand, are ''definitely'' this. |
| 114 | * BadassBoast: When Gandalf warns him that trying to draw the wargs away from the Company might not be such a good idea: |
| 115 | --> '''Gandalf:''' These are Gungabad wargs! They will outrun you!\ |
| 116 | '''Radagast:''' ''These'' are Rhosgobel rabbits. ''I'd like to see them try''. |
| 117 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He may seem silly, but he's still a Wizard, which puts him on equal footing with Gandalf and Saruman. |
| 118 | * BigDamnHeroes: Shows up to [[spoiler:rescue Gandalf from Dol Gurdur in the third movie, and again with the eagles in the climax.]] |
| 119 | * BunniesForCuteness: The movies invented the idea that he travels on a sled pulled by giant rabbits, who can outrun wargs and bats. |
| 120 | * 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. |
| 121 | * 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. |
| 122 | * 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. |
| 123 | * 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'']]. |
| 124 | * CloudCuckoolander: He lets birds nest under his hat, for starters. He also mistakes sticks on his tongue for his own thoughts. |
| 125 | * 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.]] |
| 126 | ** 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. |
| 127 | * {{Druid}}: The basis of his design and character, albeit a highly eccentric variation. |
| 128 | * {{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. |
| 129 | * FreudianTrio: The Id to Saruman's Superego and Gandalf's Ego. He's also played by Sylvester [=McCoy=]. |
| 130 | * 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. |
| 131 | * GRatedDrug: Mushrooms, according to Saruman. |
| 132 | * TheHermit: Lives alone except for his animal friends |
| 133 | * HorseOfADifferentColor: In the movie, he drives a sled pulled by rabbits. |
| 134 | * MissionControl: He doesn't fight alongside Gandalf, but his connection to nature enables him to receive messengers (most prominently butterflies) and send in allies such as the Eagles and Beorn. |
| 135 | * NatureLover: |
| 136 | ** 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. |
| 137 | ** 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. |
| 138 | * TheNeedsOfTheMany: In ''The Desolation of Smaug'' he persuades Gandalf that helping the Company is less important than saving the world. |
| 139 | * 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 off 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. |
| 140 | * 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. |
| 141 | * 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. |
| 142 | * 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". |
| 143 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He doesn't look ''young'', but he certainly doesn't look 2000. |
| 144 | * StealthHiBye: When Gandalf is investigating [[spoiler: the tomb of the Nazgûl]], Radagast suddenly appears behind him, very effectively startling him. |
| 145 | * 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. It can be guessed, however, that he simply returned to his tasks in the forest and was busy with them during the next events. |
| 146 | * TheWonka: He certainly doesn't ''look'' like an angelic emissary of the gods, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass but...]] |
| 147 | * TrapIsTheOnlyOption: To Gandalf: |
| 148 | -->'''Radagast''': What if it's a trap? |
| 149 | -->'''Gandalf''': It's ''undoubtedly'' a trap. |
| 150 | * 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. |
| 151 | * 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. |
| 152 | * WizardBeard: Not of the cleanest kind. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:The Blue Wizards]] |
| 156 | !!The Blue Wizards |
| 157 | !!! '''Species:''' Maia |
| 158 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' (mention) |
| 159 | \ |
| 160 | |
| 161 | The last two Istari sent to Middle-earth to fight off Sauron's influence. They are mentioned by Gandalf, but nothing more is said about them. |
| 162 | ---- |
| 163 | * 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 the vibe that the Blue Wizards don't get much respect either. 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. |
| 164 | * AscendedExtra: Mildly. Here, they at least 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. |
| 165 | * CanonImmigrant: From ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', where there is at least one indirect mention; in the book of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' they are not talked about at all. |
| 166 | * CrypticBackgroundReference: They are mentioned by Gandalf while he lists his order' members to Bilbo. However, other than calling them the Blue Wizards, he cannot even remember the individual names they go under. |
| 167 | -->'''Gandalf''': There are five of us. The greatest of our order is Saruman the White. And then there are the two Blue Wizards... You know, I've quite forgotten their names. |
| 168 | * TheDividual: They are mentioned together and share a color code, when the other three Istari operate separately and have a single color for each. |
| 169 | * TheGhost: They are never seen, as it's implied they are far away. |
| 170 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Presumably, as the Blue Wizards' absence implies they are away on their own mission to fight Evil just like the rest of the Istari. |
| 171 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Doylist reason why Gandalf cannot remember their names is that they were not included in the rights of the film. Just mentioning them ''at all'' was controversial by this reason. |
| 172 | * UnknownCharacter: The trilogy unveils a third Istari in full detail, but those two remain unknown. |
| 173 | * WritingAroundTrademarks: Gandalf referring to them by rank and being unable to remember their names, conveniently side-stepping the material that was off limits due to rights issues. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:The Eagles]] |
| 177 | !!The Eagles of Manwë |
| 178 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/middleearth_eagles.jpg]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | !!! '''Species:''' Eagle |
| 181 | !!! '''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]]'' |
| 182 | \ |
| 183 | |
| 184 | ->''"Eagles! The Eagles are coming!"'' |
| 185 | -->--'''Pippin''' |
| 186 | \ |
| 187 | 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. |
| 188 | ---- |
| 189 | * 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. |
| 190 | * BigDamnHeroes: Their primary role in the films, swooping in to save the main cast from many a DarkestHour. |
| 191 | * TheCavalry: They have a tendency of performing this role ''a lot'' for our heroes: |
| 192 | ** Gwaihir (the Lord of the Eagles) rescues Gandalf from his prison atop Orthanc in ''The Fellowship of the Ring''. |
| 193 | ** 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. |
| 194 | ** Two of them arrive just in time to rescue Frodo and Sam from the erupting Mount Doom, also in ''The Return of the King''. |
| 195 | ** A group of them arrive to fight off Azog and his orc pack and rescue the Company at the end of ''An Unexpected Journey''. |
| 196 | ** 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. |
| 197 | * 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. |
| 198 | * GoodCounterpart: To the Fell Beasts and the Dol Guldur Bats. |
| 199 | * 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. |
| 200 | * InvincibleHero: Never do we witness a Great Eagle drop from the sky, save only when they do so to divebomb flatten Orc battalions or shred Fell Beast asses like nobody's business. |
| 201 | * NobleBirdOfPrey: The eagles are mighty, elegant and noble birds and they are firmly on the side of good. |
| 202 | * 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. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | !The Shire |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 208 | !!Hobbits |
| 209 | \ |
| 210 | |
| 211 | ->''"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..."'' |
| 212 | -->--'''- Sam''' |
| 213 | \ |
| 214 | 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. |
| 215 | \ |
| 216 | \ |
| 217 | |
| 218 | 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. |
| 219 | \ |
| 220 | \ |
| 221 | |
| 222 | Like all Mortals, Hobbits have the "Gift of Men" (see below). |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: |
| 225 | ** 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. |
| 226 | ** ''Film/TheHobbit'' has the younger Bilbo hit with, too, even if he is kept as middle-aged. |
| 227 | * {{Arcadia}}: The Hobbits live amongst gently rolling hills in small villages filled with beautiful cottage-gardens, evoking the traditional IdyllicEnglishVillage. Due to their cosseted existence, Hobbits are portrayed as very parochial, somewhat small-minded, and generally uncaring of what goes on outside the Shire. |
| 228 | * 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.) |
| 229 | * BadassAdorable: Oh yes. Just ask the ones who ventured 'there and back again'. |
| 230 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: The Hobbits will fight if push comes to shove. |
| 231 | * 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. |
| 232 | * TheClan: Prefer to live in large family groups almost like Scottish clans, although usually not for self-defense reasons. |
| 233 | * 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. |
| 234 | * DemotedToExtra: A number of Hobbits from the book including Gaffer Gamgee, Farmer Maggot, and Ted Sandyman only appear briefly. |
| 235 | * 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. |
| 236 | * 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. |
| 237 | * {{Hobbits}}: TropeNamer, TropeCodifier, and quite likely the UrExample. |
| 238 | * 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. |
| 239 | * {{Jerkass}}: Only a couple, like the Sackville-Bagginses and Déagol. Sméagol rather transcends Jerkass. |
| 240 | * MadeOfIron: They are adapted to volcanic regions, and so the fumes in the Sammath Naur did not kill Frodo, Sam, or Gollum. |
| 241 | * MustHaveNicotine: All Hobbits are prone to this, with the Shire being a major producer of excellent pipeweed. |
| 242 | * QuintessentialBritishGentleman: The upper-class hobbits, like the Baggins and Brandybuck families. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder:Rosie Cotton]] |
| 246 | !!Rose "Rosie" Cotton |
| 247 | [[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_rosie.jpg]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | !!! '''Species:''' Hobbit |
| 250 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Sarah [=McLeod=] |
| 251 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' |
| 252 | \ |
| 253 | |
| 254 | ->''"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."'' |
| 255 | -->--'''Sam''' |
| 256 | \ |
| 257 | The barmaid of the Green Dragon and the beloved of Samwise Gamgee. |
| 258 | ---- |
| 259 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the books, Rosie isn't mentioned until Book VI and doesn't appear until the second to last chapter. Here she's introduced at Bilbo's birthday party. |
| 260 | * FloralThemeNaming: Like a majority of female hobbits, she is named after a flower. |
| 261 | * 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]] '''[[ExplosiveBreeder thirteen]]''' [[ExplosiveBreeder children together.]] |
| 262 | * 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. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Lobelia Sackville-Baggins]] |
| 266 | !!Lobelia Sackville-Baggins |
| 267 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_lobelia.jpg]] |
| 268 | |
| 269 | !!! '''Species:''' Hobbit |
| 270 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Erin Banks, Elizabeth Moody |
| 271 | !!! '''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]]'' |
| 272 | \ |
| 273 | A rather unpleasant but very wealthy hobbit whose family has a rocky history with the Bagginses of Bag End. Wife of Otho Sackville-Baggins. |
| 274 | ---- |
| 275 | * AdaptedOut: Her son Lotho as well as her purchase of Bag End from Frodo. |
| 276 | * DemotedToExtra: Her role in ''Fellowship'' is largely cut, with Lobelia only briefly appearing in the Extended Edition at the party and being heard knocking at Bilbo's door. |
| 277 | * FeudingFamilies: Aggressively pushes her husband to usurp his cousin, Bilbo, for leadership of the Baggins clan. |
| 278 | * FloralThemeNaming: Like most female hobbits, she's named after a flower. Applicably, the lobelia symbolizes malevolence and ill will. |
| 279 | * NosyNeighbor: She's known to constantly pry into Bilbo's affairs. |
| 280 | * ParasolOfPrettiness: She carries a dainty parasol, similarly fussy as her dress. |
| 281 | * 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.]] |
| 282 | * 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. |
| 283 | * 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. |
| 284 | * SitcomArchNemesis: To Bilbo. |
| 285 | * 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... |
| 286 | ** In ''Battle of the Five Armies'', [[spoiler:she tries to steal Bilbo's silverware with him presumed dead.]] |
| 287 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Since Saruman never takes over the Shire in the films, she avoids getting thrown in the Lockholes and their is no mention of her death. |
| 288 | * 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. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Otho Sackville-Baggins]] |
| 292 | !!Otho Sackville-Baggins |
| 293 | |
| 294 | !!! '''Species:''' Hobbit |
| 295 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Brian Hotter, Peter Corrigan |
| 296 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]'' | ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' |
| 297 | \ |
| 298 | Another wealthy but rather unpleasant hobbit; husband of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. |
| 299 | ---- |
| 300 | * DemotedToExtra: Otho is only seen briefly at Bilbo's party in the Extended Edition. |
| 301 | * 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. |
| 302 | * HenpeckedHusband: Lobelia is quite obviously the one who rules the roost in the Sackville-Baggins family. |
| 303 | * 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. |
| 304 | * TimeshiftedActor: He appears in ''Fellowship'' at the venerable age of 91, but in ''An Unexpected Journey'', he's around 30. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Gerontius "The Old" Took]] |
| 308 | !!Gerontius "The Old" Took |
| 309 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_gerontius.jpg]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | !!! '''Species:''' Hobbit |
| 312 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Dan Hennah |
| 313 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]] |
| 314 | \ |
| 315 | 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, great-grandfather of Frodo, and great-great grandfather of Merry and Pippin. |
| 316 | ---- |
| 317 | * BadassFamily: Clan-leader of an uncharacteristically adventurous hobbit family, he's Bilbo's grandfather. |
| 318 | * TheClan: The head of it, in fact. |
| 319 | * CoolOldGuy: A very fun fellow to spend time with and the second oldest hobbit in recorded history after Bilbo (and unlike Bilbo he didn't have any supernatural help living that long). |
| 320 | * CreatorCameo: Played by Weta's Dan Hennah. |
| 321 | * EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: No one calls him Gerontius, just The Old Took. |
| 322 | * 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. |
| 323 | * HappyFlashback: He appears in a very sweet scene added to special edition of ''An Expected Journey'', which depicts a typically merry hobbit gathering. |
| 324 | * PosthumousCharacter: He's deceased long before ''The Hobbit'' takes place, at least by several decades. |
| 325 | * SpellMyNameWithAThe: A non-malevolent example, used out of respect. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Belladonna Took]] |
| 329 | !!Belladonna Took |
| 330 | [[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/other_belladonna.jpg]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | !!! '''Species:''' Hobbit |
| 333 | !!! '''Portrayed by:''' Sonia Forbes-Adam |
| 334 | !!! '''Appears in:''' ''[[Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney An Unexpected Journey]]''[[note]]Extended Edition only[[/note]] |
| 335 | \ |
| 336 | One of the Old Took's four daughters and Bilbo's mother. |
| 337 | ---- |
| 338 | * 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". |
| 339 | * 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. |
| 340 | * 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. |
| 341 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: Gandalf expresses familiarity with her, and his surprise at Bilbo's disinterest in adventuring suggests that she, like her book counterpart, had adventures of her own in her youth. |
| 342 | * 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. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | \ |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | %%[[folder:Old Gammidge]] |
| 348 | %%!!Old Gammidge |
| 349 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | %%[[folder:Old Hob]] |
| 352 | %%!!Old Hob |
| 353 | %% * HappyFlashback |
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