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

 

== The Fellowship ==

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* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Frodo realises at the end of his [[The Quest|quest]] that he is irreversibly changed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: [[Trope Namer]]

 

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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Sword.

 

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

 

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* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Axe.

 

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== Men ==

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* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

 

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* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]

 

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* [[Warrior Prince]]

 

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* [[24-Hour Armor]]: Seen as a symbol of his stubbornness and pride, but also redeeming values thereof.

 

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== Elves ==

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

 

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

 

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== Other Main Characters ==

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* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]

 

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== The Forces of Evil ==

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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: His goal was once to establish order in Middle-Earth.

 

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* [[This Is Your Brain on Evil]]: Several people have compared its effects to those of drug addiction.

 

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* [[You Can't Make an Omelette]]: Discussed. <small>[[Kirk Summation|"He who breaks a thing to discover what it is has left the path of wisdom."]]</small>

 

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* [[Treacherous Advisor]]

 

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* [[Was Once a Man]]

 

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* [[Was Once a Man]]: The origin that made it into the books is that they were once elves. This is only one possibility, though, and [[Flip-Flop of God|it kept changing right up until Tolkien's death]]--he didn't like the implications that had for their eternal souls, even though he did not want evil to be capable of independent creation, which would have conflicted with his Christianity.

 

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* [[Smash Mook]]

 

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* [[Smug Snake]]

 

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* [[Weakened by the Light]]

 

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