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* [[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]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]▼
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
▲* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[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.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His parents drowned in the Brandywine River.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]:
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Frodo represents the Ego
* [[Pretty Boy]]: For the movies at least, he's young and beautiful; in the books, hobbits are more friendly-looking than handsome.
* [[The Quest]]
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* [[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]]
* [[Freudian Trio]]: Samwise represents the Superego.▼
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Sam uses this to whack some goblins in Moria.
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]}}: At the very end.
* [[Hidden Depths]]
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]▼
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Sure he's heavier than the skinny waif that is Frodo, but he's hardly as fat as Gollum says.
▲* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Just about the only character in the story who the Ring cannot tempt.
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** [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
▲* [[Freudian Trio]]: Samwise represents the Superego.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Went from a timid gardener who had never wandered further than a few miles from home to maiming giant spiders and beating orcs in a fight.▼
** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"▼
* [[The Reliable One]]
* [[Sidekick]]: [[Breakout Character|Ascended]] to hero.
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* [[Tender Tears]]: More prominent in the movie adaptation, though.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]
▲* [[Took a Level
▲** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Sam almost defines this trope.
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* [[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.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: With Pippin, especially since Merry is the one who starts trouble.
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* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Those Two Guys]]: With Merry.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: An innocent version, with Merry, though this toned down as they make their transition to [[Badass Normal|badasses]].
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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Bow and [[Dual-Wielding|long knives.]]
=== Gimli ([[John Rhys-Davies]]) ===
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Sixty-Five Hundred Years Old]]
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=== Arwen ([[Liv Tyler]]) ===
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* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Literally (after Luthien died).
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=== 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 ==
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* [[Accidental Hero]]▼
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.▼
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.▼
* [[Breakout Character]]: Was essentially a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in [[The Hobbit]]. Here, he's a ''([[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|if not the]])'' big attraction.▼
* [[Cain and Abel]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"▼
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]▼
* [[Chronic Villainy]]▼
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].▼
* [[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]]...▼
** Actually, 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 [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.▼
▲* [[Breakout Character]]: Was essentially a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in [[The Hobbit]]. Here, he's a ''([[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|if not the]])'' big attraction.
* [[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]]''.▼
* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]▼
* [[The Corruption]]
* [[Cower Power]]▼
* [[The Dark Side]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]▼
* [[The Determinator]]
* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Precious!"▼
* [[Foil]]▼
** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.▼
* [[Freudian Trio]]: Gollum represents the Id.▼
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].▼
▲* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]
* [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
▲* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].
* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.▼
* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)▼
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.▼
▲* [[Accidental Hero]]
▲* [[Anti-Hero]]: Becomes a Type IV in The Two Towers before slipping back to his old ways.
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
▲* [[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]]''.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."▼
* [[
* [[Invisible Jerkass]]
▲* [[Famous Last Words]]: "Precious!"
▲* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]
▲* [[Man Child]] / [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]▼
* [[
* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.▼
▲* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
▲* [[Cower Power]]
* [[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]]...
▲* [[Foil]]
▲** Actually, 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 [[Dramatic Irony]], and making Sam's fury upon overhearing Gollum's scheming later even more understandable.
▲** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
▲* [[Serkis Folk]]: [[Trope Codifier]] (in the Jackson-films)
▲* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
▲* [[Spanner in the Works]]: "Even Gollum may have something yet to do..."
* [[Split Personality]]
* [[Starring Special Effects]]
▲* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]
▲* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: And how.
* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]
▲* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Fisssh.
* [[Tragic Villain]]▼
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"
** [[Verbal Tic Name]]
▲* [[Freudian Trio]]: Gollum represents the Id.
▲* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.
▲* [[Tragic Villain]]
▲* [[Chronic Villainy]]
* [[Was Once a Man|Was Once A Hobbit]]: 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.
▲* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
=== Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies) ===
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Gentle and kindly most of the time. Can tear up stone like tissue paper when protecting his forest. Pippin even [[
* [[Constantly Curious]]
* [[
* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Heroic Neutral]]
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=== The Mouth of Sauron ([[Bruce Spence]]) ===
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* [[Ass in Ambassador]]: After meeting with Aragorn, he essentially demands his surrender.
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* [[Whip It Good]]: He uses a flaming whip [[Dual Wield|in conjunction with]] a [[Flaming Sword]].
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