He's the most important character, right? It would've

I don't know about most important, I think Gandalf is the most important figure in the story in terms of winning the war. Sam is, by Tolkien's own admission, the Hero of LOTR. He is the bravest and most heroic.

>>83673117
They were all pretty important besides Legolas and Gimli. Even Merry and Pipin convinced the Ents to join the war and killed the Witch King

>>83673117
He's the real true hero of the movie.
Gandalf is the most important character.
EVERY person was important in their own way, everyone had their own little part to play in the events that unfolded.

>>83673117
Sauron was Time's person of the year

I wouldn't say he was the most important but he showed an immense amount of courage for being just a little hobbit who never dealt with anything like that

>>83673117
Aragorn is the most important character.

>>83673619
Was Aragorn a Mary Sue?

should i read the silmarrion

why/why not

>>83673659
Hmm, possibly. He has a pretty miraculous chain of events fall upon him,. He does go through some hardship, though. Gets questioned once or twice and shows some inner doubt and struggle. He seems to grow and accept the weight of his destiny as the series goes on. Not a clear cut Mary Sue imo but shades of it

>He's the most important character, right? It would've all been fucked without him
This could be said of almost all of them

>>83673719
Have you read lotr and the hobbit and want more? Then yes. If no, read those.

>>83673619
What did Aragorn do? Gandalf is the one that rallied the free people of middle earth. I guess without Aragorn they wouldn't have had the deus ex machina ghosts to win the battle of Pelennor fields.

Aragorn just came up with distracting Sauron while Sam literally carried Frodo and the Ring up Mt. Doom.

>>83673751
Not gimli or meri

>>83673850
He also guided the hobbits to Rivendel, saved Frodo from the Witch King's stab wound, was the best warrior and sang songs

Gimli is by far the least important member of the fellowship

>>83673870
Merry literally was the jab that set up the hook to kill Sauron's second-in-command.

>>83674027
Pipin stabbed the witch king

>>83673870
Merry killed the Nazgul witch king that according to the movie was stronger than Gandalf. If he hadn't I'm sure the witch king would have fucked things up for them.

Gimli was an essential soldier in the battles. An example of this was that he helped delay the battle at Helms Deep when thrown out infront of the gate, otherwise when Gandalf arrived it might have been too late. He also guided them through Moria I think.

>>83674052
No.

>>83673870
I think Pippin is objectively less useful than Meriadoc. Pippin only saves Faramir, an inconsequential character entirely.

>>83674053
>according to the movie
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>>83674078
Faramir is Gondor's finest.

>>83674078
He also lights the beacon you dumb fuck.

>>83673547
I always liked that Samwise turned the ring down, and stayed true to the end.

>>83674127
That's funny way to spell Boromir. Is that Elvish?

>>83673850
He's the core. The journey culminates with an era of peace overseen by Aragorn. All plots have this underlying practical motivation; to retake Middle Earth with Aragorn at the helm in his rightful, destined place. First evil must be cast out. Then the new ruler takes over.

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>>83674140
Wow, ya got me.

>character did this 1 thing without ever coming into harm's way
>BTFO

>>83674152
Faramir proved his willpower was stronger than Borimir's when he refused to give in to the power of the ring.

>>83674098
>>83674111
TAX

>>83673719
Read "The Count of Monte Critso" or "The Bible" instead. Much more important in terms of literature.

>>83674076
How have I remembered that so wrong?

>>83673547
>unfolded
it's unfeld you fucking illiterate

>>83673659
Yes.

>>83674260
I've seen LOTR trilogy about 5 times through, read the books too and I still sometimes forget whether Meri goes to Gondor with Gandalf or it's Pippin. I'm getting better, but I still forget and it takes me a minute to work it out in my head.

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HFY thread?

>>83674332
I'm rewatching them. ROTK tonight. But I've read the books too. I guess they're easy to confuse because for the first two books they do everything together but don't get as much focus as Sam and Frodo do

>>83673719
Its good, but you need to be really interested in middle-earth. Not a very cohesive story. Its supposed to be like a history book, so events happens rapidly, crazy amount of names.

If you're genuinely interested in knowing more about the history of middle-earth and all the stuff that happened then I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Where did his waifu go?

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We all know who the most important Hobbit character is.

>>83674852
The Goblin King?

>>83674852
>implying we wouldn't all be Alfred

>>83675203
Nah, I'd be dead.

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>>83675227
So was he

>>83674140
Only in the movie. In the books, Denethor wasn't a dumbshit and had the beacons lit before Pippin and Gandalf even got to Minas Tirith.

>>83675266
Never watched it.

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>>83674771
chopped up and turned into charcoal 1000 years ago by orcs