Who was your Favorite LoTR Character?

[Galykia]

Treebeard the Ent, the best race in LOTR.

 

[Kaeb]

They did practically rape Saruman so I guess your right, Gondorians all the way though.

 

[Octavian Black]

I have to go Legolas. :CHappy:

 

[SeekerAfterTruth]

Faramir was my favourite book character, Frodo a close second. I suppose for movie, it'd have to be Gimli.

 

[Ru the Boatswain]

No one loves merry and pippin.

 

[Green Ranger]

Gimli was so much more interesting bookwise - the movies cut out so much character depth it was appalling, and I found him to be one of the most interesting of all, especially as he is quite in contrast to the grim and rough stereotypical dwarf.

I also found Saruman, Denethor and Theoden to be really well devised characters.

And, i'm sorry, but anyone who listed Legolas as their favourite is either basing that off of the cheesy Bloom Legolas, or wasn't paying enough attention while they were reading. Tolkien makes a clear point of Legolas being the least influential of the Fellowship as a representation of the decline of the Elves influence in Middle Earth.

 

[SeekerAfterTruth]

Well, book-Frodo's kind of interesting too, although you have to do some character analysis for that to come out. Movie Frodo was a wimp. I'd agree about Gimli, except that I suppose the movie had him as mostly comic relief. And Saruman- I forgot about him >.<

 

[Green Ranger]

Well, book-Frodo's kind of interesting too, although you have to do some character analysis for that to come out. Movie Frodo was a wimp. I'd agree about Gimli, except that I suppose the movie had him as mostly comic relief. And Saruman- I forgot about him >.<

Some of Gimli's best scenes were completely omitted from the movies, and even the scene where he asks Galadriel for a single strand of her hair (which is only in the extended edition) was reduced and became far less powerful than it really should have been.

Saruman was incredibly interesting, especially if you look into the other writings about him and the appendices of LoTR. And I agree with you on Frodo - he was really poorly portrayed in the films, becoming a completely useless coward and idiot. In the books, he has those qualities at times, but they are in no way definitions of his character.

Also, I forgot to mention, but Sauron himself is a really interesting character that is again not given justice by the films.

 

[SeekerAfterTruth]

Why so? Or are you referring to the extra material we get outside of the Lord of the Rings books themselves?- with regards to Sauron.

Well, yes. Even within Lord of the Rings, I suppose at his end, and before that, we get hints of conflict within his character, and a powerful indicator is Gandalf mentioning he is as Saruman should have been. And perhaps, once was.

I suppose I like to see book-Frodo as a metaphor, in a loose sense of the word, for the soldier who goes out, fights, suffers emotional damage, and returns home- where nothing is ever exactly the same again.

Well. I felt that as with the Gimli-Galadriel scene, and many other such scenes in the movie, even Aragorn and the Army of the Dead, the movie diluted the emotional feel of the scenes or just changed it. It's kind of sad, because it changes the way the characters behave. The most people I know remember of Gimli- "He's the guy who did the counting with Legolas, right?"

 

[Octavian Black]

I only liked him because he was bad ass. I was young so it seemed real cool.

 

[Wing]

Boromir, Galadriel, Celeborn, and the Mouth of Sauron.

 

[Venom]

Boromir from the movies. And I really now wish that I would have read the books.

 

[Ser Yorick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

 

[Rev]

Golem... 'nuff said.

 

[Viggy]

Golem... 'nuff said.

Gollum*

 

[Green Ranger]

Why so? Or are you referring to the extra material we get outside of the Lord of the Rings books themselves?- with regards to Sauron.

He is, bar none, the single most powerful individual in all of Middle Earth (by that stage in Middle Earth's history), and has the potential to rule over it all with ease, if only he can find the One Ring. There's a lot of specuative fear and paranoia in his character, and even arrogance at times. The book's portrayal also gives him a much more ominous feeling than that stupid giant eye on top of Barad-Dur...

 

[Ares]

Sauroman, definitely. Christopher Lee rocks. =3

 

[Dan.]

Pippin. He represents the common man, a regular joe, someone who just wants to help his friends. He goes with loyalty into the face of danger, and doesn't turn back. He and Merry are able to convince an extremely powerful, yet apathetic people to fight. And when it's all said and done, Pippin is hailed as a hero and marshalls the Shirefolk to drive out Wild Men and Saruman.

 

[Flame]

Gimli was so much more interesting bookwise - the movies cut out so much character depth it was appalling, and I found him to be one of the most interesting of all, especially as he is quite in contrast to the grim and rough stereotypical dwarf.

I also found Saruman, Denethor and Theoden to be really well devised characters.

And, i'm sorry, but anyone who listed Legolas as their favourite is either basing that off of the cheesy Bloom Legolas, or wasn't paying enough attention while they were reading. Tolkien makes a clear point of Legolas being the least influential of the Fellowship as a representation of the decline of the Elves influence in Middle Earth.

Bloom was not cheesy!!!:CStern: He did a pretty good job in the 2 Towers if I don't say so myself. You at least have to admit that his armor was awesomeness.

 

[Green Ranger]

Bloom was not cheesy!!!:CStern: He did a pretty good job in the 2 Towers if I don't say so myself. You at least have to admit that his armor was awesomeness.

Bloom was way cheesy - not entirely his fault, I think it was a collaberative effort to ruin Tolkien's works via film plus a marketing spin as well.

And don't get me started on the Two Towers. The number of issues I have with that film is ridiculous...