Waitaminute:
Wasn’t Gandalf transporting Hobbits across state lines for immoral puposes?
Frodo is well into his 30s or 40s at the start of the books, and even Merry and Pippin, the youngsters, are in their 20s at least.
Theft - One slightly used canoe. Arguably community property of the Fellowship, but certainly not sole property of Frodo Baggins.
Assault and Battery - Victims are “Smeagol” and Samwise Gamgee (who will not press charges)
Assault/Intentional infliction of emotional distress - Samwise Gamgee, multiple counts
Tresspassing on Federal Property - Charges dropped by State of Gondor
Tresspassing on Federal Property - Mordor/Mt. Doom
Not to mention that Sauron would almost certainly classify him as an “unlawful enemy combatant,” which would earn him a life sentence in the Mordor equivalent of Gitmo.
He also sided with Moe Green against the family. You just don’t do that!
Actually he did, in the Prologue where it’s stated that pipeweed was a variety of Nicotiana, or tobacco. And even if you think that Tolkien was being intentionally vague in his language, it’s pretty clear from the smoking scenes early in The Hobbit that it’s tobacco that’s meant. Exhaled pot smoke much more diaphanous than tobacco smoke, and it would be nearly impossible to blow the smoke rings described in the smoking scenes early in The Hobbit–even for a wizard.
Frodo and his companions were certainly arrested at one point, following their return to the Shire.
Farmer Maggot should just set his dogs on that stinkin’ mushroom thief.
Ah yes, Pippen and Merry were both vegetable thieves.
We witnessed Rohirrim, along with allied soldiers (Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli would be considered as soldiers of sovereign nations since they were all dispatched officially via the Council of Elrond) killing helpless wounded Wargs and Orc soldiers from Isengard after the ambush when the Rohirrim were evacuating to Helmsdeep.
I’m pretty sure that somewhere we can charge SOMEONE with Grand Theft Horse.
On Babylon 5, we have seen numerous members of the Babylon 5 Command Staff being very obviously publicly intoxicated (Lieutenant Commander Ivonva and Chief Warrant Officer Garibaldi both come to mind, with Ivonova even going so far as to become involved in a large brawl which resulted in numerous injuries and damage to privately owned furniture, both of these incidents taking place during the station’s second year of operation).
Let’s not even get into the treason stuff the B5 staff got mixed up in a few years later, since that was addressed and dealt with on the show in a very politically motivated solution (“I should give you a medal, then have you shot.”).
In the Wing Commander games, Colonel Christopher Blair of the Terran Confederation Space Forces could have been brought up on war charges of xenocide (the destruction of the planet Kilrah and it’s inhabitants). Since the Kilrathi government (and a sizeable portion of it’s military) was destroyed in the same incident, nobody brought up charges and Blair got away scott free, ironically only to be abducted by a new alien force which was able to gain a foothold in the Kilrah system years later with no local military or political force in place to resist it.
In the Wing Commander novels, a number of former Confederation naval officers, most notably Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn and then-Commander Jason Bondarevsky helped to broker illegal arms shipments to help a rogue government (at the time, the Terran Confederation still considered the worlds of the Landreich to be Confederation colonies) launch aggressive acts against a government the Confederation had ceased hostilities with. They escaped charges becaues the Kilrathi government itself turned out to be preparing a major assault on both the Free Republic of the Landreich and the Terran Confederation’s capital world of Earth.
In the Hornblower television movie “The Even Chance”, Midshipman Horatio Hornblower, then in command of a captured French warship, attacked several unsuspecting French corvettes while flying under false colors. In this same movie, he also struck a fellow midshipman in the head with a blunt object during a boarding action, rendering him unconcious.
In later movies, “Mutiny” and “Retribution”, it was strongly implied that Lieutenant Hornblower commited mutiny by shoving his commanding officer down a hatch, resulting in severe injuries. This was never proven though. It was an even bigger unresolved mystery in the book, with two possible suspects of the crime, both obviously in cahoots (Lieutenant Hornblower, the only book narrated from another character’s point of view.)
In the Hornblower movie “Loyalty”, Hornblower acts as a spy, and one of his midshipmen could be charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy.
In the next movie, “Duty”, Hornblower, through his own actions, allows a convicted man under his supervision to escape, swimming to a nearby foreign ship (in the movie, this was the USS Liberty, in the book “Hornblower and the Hotspur”, it was the USS Constitution)
During later books, Hornblower shows himself to be an adulterer on numerous occasions (having affairs with multiple women during both of his marriages, including at least one affair with another married woman), and violates the sovereignity of a foreign nation’s territory by covertly sabotaging a slave runner’s ship in a Spanish port.
Hornblower’s second wife, Lady Barbara, aids a fugitive in evading justice, even going so far as to trick her husband into financing the operation.
Frodo is 33 when Bilbo leaves the Shire for Rivendell, and at that time Bilbo is 111. I’m not positive on the numbers here, but I believe Bilbo was around 130 years old when him and Frodo met back up in Rivendell so that would mean Frodo was in his 50s when he starts on his journey.
It could also be argued Frodo steals someone’s home at the end of LotR.
For years the Sackville-Bagginses had tried to wrest control of Bag End, IIRC they actually were in the process of auctioning off Bilbo’s wordly possessions when he returned from his quest in which he killed Smaug. And that the S-B’s were fairly upset when they didn’t get to take possession of Bag End.
When Frodo left the Shire he sells Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses (they are family, eventhough they’re the black sheep of the family.)
When Frodo and crew return to the Shire to deal with what’s happened there Lotho Sackville-Baggins is ultimately killed and afterwards Frodo simply moves back in to the home. You would suspect the S-B family would be deserving of some money in exchange for the property.
But Merry and Pippin are still short of legal adulthood, which for hobbits is 33. (Frodo is 33 at the time of the Party, 51 at the beginning of the Quest.)
Note that vegetable-scrumping on the part of Pippin and Merry is a pure Jacksonism; it was Frodo who was a (former) mushroom-thief.
There may have been no Sackville-Bagginses left. Lobelia was a widow and returned to Hardbottle to live out her remaining months with her own family, the Bracegirdles. And possibly the consensus view was that the S-B estate deserved to lose Bag End in view of Lotho’s actions. It’s not as though Lobelia was being thrown out into the street.
Nobody’s yet brought up Aragorn’s unlawful imprisonment of Smeagol. He certainly had no standing in law to arrest him and frog-march him all the way to Mirkwood. Gandalf’s probably got something coming to him for “putting the fear of fire on him”, too.
The Ents, the self-styled Guardians of the environment, divert a major river expressly to destroy residential, commercial and industrial facilities. Even if this were considered legitimate redevelopment, they did not file an environmental impact statement or obtain any permits from the Water Management District or Army Corps of Engineers.
Hold on there; I’m comfortably certain that Lotho was dead at the hands of Grima before the Travellers even passed the Buckland Gate. That can’t be laid at Frodo’s doorstep. As to the return of Frodo to Bag End, I’m pretty sure that Lobelia deeded it over to him before retiring to Hardbottle.
I opened this thread expecting a link to a news story about Elijah Wood being arrested. I’m kinda disappointed that this isn’t the case.
then there’s Elijah Wood’s character of Kevin from the Sin City movie
Cannibalism
multiple counts of murder
aggrivated assault (sledgehammer to Marv’s skull, temporary blinding of Marv from fingernail-induced lacerations)
kidnapping
mutilation (amputating Lucille’s hand and eating it)
unlawful imprisonment (Marv and Lucille)
If I may mention a character from outside the LOTR trilogy, may I say that I would not be surprised to discover that Mr. Tumnus (the faun from Narnia) is a registered sex offender? I mean, wandering about the woods without pants, and luring a strange young girl to his home (after discerning that “they’re not from around here”) and giving them drugged tea.
Lucie, oh Lucie, did no one ever lecture you about ‘stranger danger’?
Luke Skywalker has some 'splainin to do, too.
Kidnapping
Theft of government property
Destruction of government property
Loitering
Aiding and abetting a known felon
Dammit NoClueBoy. Ah well, here’s my longer list for Luke Skywalker:
Terrorism, multiple counts
Unauthorized possession of firearms
Treason, multiple counts
Murder
Incest (you KNOW he had the hots for Leia)
Unauthorizes possession of a Wookie
Attempted assassination of the Emperor
Destruction of Empire property (the Death Star)
Attempted assassination of Imperial officer (Darth Vader)
Cruelty to animals (that … thing on Hoth)
Violation of the Prime Directive (using his Jedi powers to convince the Ewoks that C3P0 is a god)
How about Aragorn for miscegenation? :eek:
No good. He was part Elf himself, if you bother to read the appendicies.
The Incest charge probably wouldn’t stick without more evidence. That said, if you wanted to try him en absentia in addition to everything else, I’m sure it’d be a great PR move (“So not only did he blow up the Death Star, killing all those brave members of the Imperial Armed Forces, but he doodles his SISTER too?!”).
Assassination of the Emperor is also iffy, since Palpatine told him to do it. If he had REFUSED to do so, then you could get him on failing to obey an Imperial Decree. 
Do you think he had the proper legal pilot’s certifications (including his 6 month physical) while he was flying that X-Wing? Since the X-Wings were obtained by less-than-legal methods (IIRC, the entire Incom coporation collectively defected to the Rebels) you could also get him on accepting stolen property, and illegal posession of weapons used in a felony.
Associating with a known mafioso (Jabba The Hutt) probably won’t help his case any.
And how much you wanna bet lightsabers aren’t legal in the Empire? Darth Vader only gets away with having one because he works for the big boss.
He wasn’t the one flying it, though. Eagles fly by themselves.