The Lord of the Rings (film)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[The Corruption]]: One of the major themes of the story.

* [[Determinator]]

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Hidden Depths]]: This applies to all the hobbits. Frodo in particular is very well educated.

* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]

* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Laments that he wished the Ring had never come to him at one point (before he's anywhere near his darkest hour), [[Discussed Trope|prompting Gandalf to respond that all who live to see such times wish this]], and that all he has to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to him.

* [[The Messiah]]: Shares this role with Aragorn.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His parents drowned in the Brandywine River.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]:

* [[Pretty Boy]]: For the movies at least, he's young and beautiful; in the books, hobbits are more friendly-looking than handsome.

* [[The Quest]]

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Did a hobbit just kick the crap out of a [[Giant Spider]]? [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Hell yes.]]

* [[The Everyman]]

* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Sam uses this to whack some goblins in Moria.

* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]}}: At the very end.

* [[Hidden Depths]]

* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]

* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Sure he's heavier than the skinny waif that is Frodo, but he's hardly as fat as Gollum says.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Just about the only character in the story who the Ring cannot tempt.

** [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]

* [[The Power of Friendship]]

* [[The Reliable One]]

* [[Sidekick]]: [[Breakout Character|Ascended]] to hero.

* [[Tender Tears]]: More prominent in the movie adaptation, though.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Sam almost defines this trope.

 

* [[The Straight Man]]: When he and Pippin are left alone, Merry is shown to be very capable and sensible, even wise, at times.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Pippin.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: With Pippin, especially since Merry is the one who starts trouble.

 

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Merry.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: An innocent version, with Merry, though this toned down as they make their transition to [[Badass Normal|badasses]].

 

* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Bow and [[Dual-Wielding|long knives.]]

 

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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Sixty-Five Hundred Years Old]]

 

=== Arwen ([[Liv Tyler]]) ===

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* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Literally (after Luthien died).

 

=== Galadriel ([[Cate Blanchett]]) ===

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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Very Old]]: Galadriel was born in the Year of the Trees 1362, before the Sun, the Moon, and the waking of Man. A moderate estimate of Galadriel's age is 10,000 years old.

* [[Time Abyss]]

 

== Other Main Characters ==

* [[Foil]]

** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.

* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].

* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.

* [[I'm Melting]]

* [[Monster Sob Story]]

* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Five Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Constantly Curious]]

* [[Green Aesop]]

* [[Heroic Neutral]]

 

* [[The Ageless]]: Like the Elves they were supposedly created from, but it isn't fully clear.

* [[Bad Boss]]: Any given orc in a position of power will probably be one of these

* [[Black Blood]]

*** Gothmog also appears in the book, but it's never specified whether he is an orc or a human.

* [[No Cure for Evil]]: Averted. Orcish medicine is among the most advanced in Middle-Earth but it tends to be very painful and has heavy scarring.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Uruk-hai only. "Standard" orcs are sneaks and cowards.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Grishnakh.

 

* [[All Trolls Are Different]]: Tolkien's trolls are giant-like monsters with rocky hides and beast-like intelligence. They permanently turn to stone when exposed to sunlight. The exceptions are Sauron's Olog-hai, more intelligent trolls that are immune to sunlight.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Elite Mook]]: The Attack Trolls followed by the Olog-Hai.

 

=== The Mouth of Sauron ([[Bruce Spence]]) ===

 

* [[Ass in Ambassador]]: After meeting with Aragorn, he essentially demands his surrender.

* [[Whip It Good]]: He uses a flaming whip [[Dual Wield|in conjunction with]] a [[Flaming Sword]].