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

* [[Deep Sleep]]

* [[Determinator]]: "Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you, but I can carry ''you''!"

* [[The Everyman]]

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

* [[Audience Surrogate]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

** [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: He, along with Éowyn (who also literally breaks her arm), nearly dies from contact with the Witch King.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Pippin.

* [[Cool Sword]]: Glamdring, which he found during ''[[The Hobbit]]''. Not detailed in the film, but since Jackson is filming that book also...

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

** [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]:...but dies from the ordeal. (Don't worry, [[Unexplained Recovery|he gets better]].)

* [[Doting Parent|Doting Grandfather:]] Towards the younger Heroes and Warriors in the band.

* [[Famous Last Words]]: [[You Shall Not Pass]], but technically "Fly, you fools."

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Beats up the head of state of Gondor.

* [[Herald]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: In Moria to save the rest of the Fellowship.

** [[Unexplained Recovery|He Got Better.]]

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Older Than They Look]]

* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: The Wizards are really angels disguised as elderly humans.

* [[The Archer]]

* [[Bishounen]]: In the movie, oh so '''very''' much.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: "A diversion." [[Only Known By Their Nickname|So Named]] in ''Legolas: The Very Special Diaries'', thus becoming [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: Averted, eventually.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Gimli. The fact that Legolas' father kept Gimli's father captive in ''[[The Hobbit]]'' doesn't help.

* [[Warrior Prince]]

 

== Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) ==

* [[Odd Friendship]]: With Legolas.

* [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]]: [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: In the film.

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]

* [[Annoying Arrows]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Foil]]

** [[The Lancer]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[Honor Before Reason]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Even though he died early on, his background and character is explored by the other characters.

* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]

* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: Ends up with Faramir after learning that Aragorn does not feel the same way toward her.

* [[Death Seeker]]

** [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: She literally broke her arm in the struggle, but she also nearly died from contact with the Witch King.

* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me]]

* [[Go Through Me]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Orphaned at a young age, raised by [[Parental Substitute|her uncle]].

* [[Pair the Spares]] / [[Hooked Up Afterwards]]: With Faramir.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Girl]]

* [[Rebellious Princess]]

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Clearly favors Boromir over Faramir, and doesn't seem to care about Faramir until he seemingly dies.

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: In the novel he starts off as a wise ruler dedicated to his people who personally has the beacons lit and the civilian population of Minas Tirith evacuated, though it's balanced out by his verbally abusive treatment of Faramir, though he does admit this later on. In the film he's a paranoid Jerkass from the start, sends Faramir on a suicide mission, and never really shows any redeeming qualities.

** Type V at best in the film.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: vs. Sauron, via the Palantir. [[The Abyss Gazes Also|Sauron looked back]].

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Parental Favoritism]]

* [[Pride]]

* [[Self Immolation]]

* [[Taking You With Me]]

 

== Faramir ([[David Wenham]]) ==

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Faramir is the sensitive one in this pair.

** And being the ''sensitive'' one of the pair he is shown leading a commando team well behind enemy lines, holding troops together with nothing but charisma while the Nazgûl are hovering above him, and defeating a great warrior in single combat. From all of which you will infer, he is part of a [[Badass Family]].

* [[The Unfavorite]]

* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: In the film version, his capturing Smeagol after Frodo coaxes him out of the Forbidden Pool leads to him thinking Frodo betrayed him, and plotting to kill him and take back the Ring (in the book, Gollum had that one planned out already.)

* [[Warrior Poet]]

* [[Warrior Prince]]

 

 

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: She gives up her immortality to stay with Aragorn, but it's indicated that he eventually dies, and she follows him not long afterward.

* [[Composite Character]]: Takes over Glorfindel's role as the Elf who takes Frodo to Rivendell, and some aspects of Luthien.

* [[Heroic Lineage]]

* [[Heros Muse]]: She functions in this role for Aragorn: the driving force behind his striving to regain his crown is his love for Arwen and the fact that he can only marry her once he is king.

* [[The High Queen]]

* [[My Girl Back Home]]

* [[No Ontological Inertia]] / [[Ill Girl]]: Film only, as a consequence of her choice of mortality.

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Galadriel's temptation.

* [[Good Counterpart]]

** [[It May Help You On Your Quest]]

* [[Large Ham]]: "You offer it to me freely? I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this... {{spoiler|In place of a dark lord you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK, BUT BEAUTIFUL, AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR!"}}

* [[Leave Your Quest Test]]

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[The Final Temptation]]

 

* [[Accidental Hero]]

* [[Cain and Abel]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "My Precioussss", "Gollum, Gollum!"

** [[Verbal Tic Name]]

* [[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.

 

== Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies) ==

* [[Fountain of Expies]]: After the publication of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', it became ''de rigueur'' for the villain in a fantasy story to be a manipulative, rarely-seen [[Evil Overlord]] who lives in a dark tower in an evil realm, employs various horrible creatures to do his work, and is dependent on an artefact of his making for power and survival.

* [[Keystone Army]]: Raised and lost several.

* [[Large and In Charge]]: In the movie he appears to be a good 15 feet tall, at least.

* [[Mind Rape]]: His specialty. <small>"Thy flesh shall be devoured and thy shriveled mind left naked to the Lidless Eye."</small>

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Sauron" is Quenya for "abomination". His less-often-seen Sindarin name, Gorthaur, means "terrible dread".

* [[Obviously Evil]]

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Before his physical body was destroyed in the fall of Númenor.

** Even afterwards he's implied to still possess the ability, though he never really gets a chance to use it--he just can't conceal his true nature any more, meaning it's no longer useful as a disguise.

 

== The One Ring ==

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Wearing the Ring makes you invisible in the normal world, but you become visible in the Wraith-World, where you can be seen by Sauron and his Ringwraiths.

* [[Lust Object]]

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]

* [[Ring of Power]]: THE Ring of Power.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[Compelling Voice]]: Especially when played by [[Christopher Lee]].

** [[The Rival]]: To Gandalf.

** [[Shadow Archetype]]: After his [[Face Heel Turn]], he's this to Gandalf.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Saruman became too obsessed with using the powers of the Ring against Sauron.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]

* [[Mage Tower]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Not So Different]]

* [[One Man Industrial Revolution]]: A [[Green Aesop]].

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[The Mole]]

* [[Obviously Evil]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: Realizing that his men failed to confiscate Gandalf's staff.

* [[The Dragon]]

* [[The Dreaded]]

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]

* [[Black Blood]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: All the Uruk-hai, but Ugluk stands out in particular.

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: The Uruk-hai,

* [[Dirty Coward]]: "Standard" orcs, which is why whip-wielding superiors and/or Nazgûl stand ''behind them''...

* [[Evilly Affable]]: For the most part.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Against Elves, Men, and even other Orcs (there is a rivalry between the Orcs of Mordor, the 'Northerners' from the Misty Mountains who are used to running their own affairs, and Saruman's Uruk-hai).

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: They're not very... selective in their diet, though unlike in the movies they generally don't eat each other if they can get anything else.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Grishnakh.

 

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

* [[Dirty Coward]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]

* [[Gross Up Close Up]]: His teeth. Egads, his teeth...

* [[Mouth of Sauron]]: [[Trope Namer]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: When Gandalf rejects his terms, he starts raving, but when the other representatives of the Free Folk give him a [[Death Glare]], he turns tail and rides breakneck back to the Morannon. In the extended cut of the film, he taunts Aragorn [[Off With His Head|and is swiftly decapitated.]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: The story was already serious, but he upped the ante and paved the way for the Fellowship's breaking by bringing down Gandalf. (Of course, Gandalf [[Unexplained Recovery|got better.]]) It also introduced the epic one-on-one fights that would occur later in the story.

* [[Large and In Charge]]: Much larger than the orcs and trolls in Moria, and they seem to be almost as afraid of him as the Fellowship is. In the [[Peter Jackson]] films, Durin's Bane is nearly twenty feet tall.

* [[Playing With Fire]]: The movie makes it looks like he's literally a demon of flame.

** And [[Casting a Shadow|shadow]].