# 100 Hobbit / Lord of the Rings characters
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748 "2006-03-31T20:23:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/1 "2006-03-31T20:23:46Z")
I’m surprised nobody thought of this yet. Anyway, this thread shall be going by the books, not the movies. (Thus, characters not in the film trilogy can be included). You know the rules…
**Smaug** the dragon: “Well, thief. I may not be able to see you, but I can smell you. So you may as well admit that you’re here.”
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/2 "2006-03-31T20:42:05Z")
Ghan-buri-ghan
Fredegar “Fatty” Bolger
Radagast the Brown
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/3 "2006-03-31T20:45:04Z")
Tom Bombadil
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/4 "2006-03-31T20:51:18Z")
Odo Proudfoot
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
Gildor Inglorion
King Brand of Dale (son of Bain, son of Bard)
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/5 "2006-03-31T20:51:37Z")
Glorfindel.
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/6 "2006-03-31T21:09:12Z")
Elladan and Elrohir - sons of Elrond; brothers to Arwen
Celebrian - Daughter of Galadriel & Celeborn; Elrond’s wife; Arwen, Elladan, & Elrohir’s mother
Halbarad - Dunedan, or ranger of the North; probably distant relative of Aragorn. Died at Pelennor Fields.
PS - I don’t know the rules
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/7 "2006-03-31T21:28:02Z")
Shoot, if we really tried (and if Qadgop was here…) we could come up with 100 dwarves, or 100 villains, or 100 People Who Are Referred to but Don’t Appear in the Narrative.
Shagrat
Bolg
Azog
Gorbag
Grishnakh
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/8 "2006-03-31T21:39:02Z")
I thought we were only suppose to supply 1 character a piece?
If not I can rattle off your 100 with ease.
I will supply \*\*Faramir \*\* for now.
Jim
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/9 "2006-03-31T21:40:37Z")
Farmer Maggot
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/10 "2006-03-31T21:42:17Z")
As a fan of comic relief, the herb-master.
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/11 "2006-03-31T21:49:12Z")
Gimli son of Gloin
‘Forty-two, Master Legolas!’ he cried. ‘Alas! My axe is notched: the forty-second had an iron collar on his neck. How is it with you?’
Brian
IMHO one character per message, and preferably with a quote
also, only one person per message, no fair using Gandalf / Mithrandir / Olorin / Tharkun / etc as separate entries!
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/12 "2006-03-31T21:53:10Z")
Gil-Galad
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/13 "2006-03-31T21:54:20Z")
Luthien Tenuvial
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### Author:  [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/14 "2006-03-31T21:58:51Z")
Erestor, an elf who showed up at the Council of Elrond
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### Author:  [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/15 "2006-03-31T22:07:21Z")
Durin
for the quote, an excerpt from _Durin’s Song_
“No harp is wrung, no hammer falls, the darkness dwells in Durin’s halls”
And I’ll supply the quote for **tdn** from a song sung by someone (Bilbo, maybe?) at Rivendell
_Gil-galad was an elven King
of him the harpers sadly sing
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the mountains & the sea_
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/16 "2006-03-31T22:10:57Z")
Elenor Gamgee.
“Waaahhh!”
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### Author:  [@Zahava424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zahava424)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/17 "2006-03-31T22:11:54Z")
Bjorn, who doesn’t like entertaining large groups of dwarves
Belladonna Took
Sam
Sam’s Gaffer (“My Gaffer used to say…”)
Rosie, Sam’s girlfriend
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/18 "2006-03-31T22:14:04Z")
Bill “waste of a good apple” Ferny
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/19 "2006-03-31T22:16:00Z")
Elbereth (Varda star-kindler)
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### Author:  [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-characters/350748/20 "2006-03-31T22:26:46Z")
Quickbeam (an Ent)
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