Oh yeah, Child!! I am right there with you! Without Merry and Pippin, everything would have all messed up. {Not mentioning the thing w/ the Palantir right now or nothing} [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] . But still. 2 great people's lives were saved because of them. I mean, all of you who love Eowen so much, well, thank Merry! She would have died without him. So no way would these hobbits be considered "stupid". They were very brave and unstupid in fact.

But anyway, I'm getting off that subject. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Go Pippin!! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

I love all the hobbits, but my absolute fav character is Sam. He is so loyal and brave! My fav part in the book is his big moment fighting Shelob. I also think Sam was more of the comic relief in the books. He says all these funny little comments!

My favorite female character is Eowyn. She's the only female character in the books that actually does any fighting and is willing to disguise herself to do so. She had a lot of courage to face the witch king like she did.

I have two favorite characters, but i cant decide which i like the more.
Its between Eärendil and Elendil the Tall.

My total favourite would have to Sam because he's so strong willed and kind. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

<font color="sky blue">My all time favorite is definitly Pippin!! He is so cool and funny. And I agree with you Child and Eruwen. Merry and *Pippin* are not stupid. They are very brave and loyal to their friends and company. (Go Pippin!!) [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Mmmh, that question is tearing me.

I love all of them for different reasons but each personality(s) of them are fascinating.

I like Treebeard very much and the others as well [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

This has really nothing to do with my subject, but I couldn't help noticing that Samwise_Hero_1 spelt favorite diff. Not saying that its a bad thing it's just I want to know if your Canadian.

Samwise_Hero_1 I kinda just notice this that your from Australia. So you don't have to answer my question. Sorry!

well, and my total favorite is quite different from most of the mentioned. firstly, he isn't from Lord of the Rings, but from Silmarillion and other lore of the elder days. secondly, he isn't mostly considered a good-doer.
I mean Turin Turambar.
I appreciate him for his strong and unusual personality, for his fatal fight with the doom, for him not being an angel [which Gandalf sometimes annoyingly resembles], but simply, a man with all the "+" and "-". well, he tried to do the best he could, everything just turned wrong.
besides, I somehow prefer the "losers"..
and if from LoTR, Gollum then..
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serpenthade [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

i like legolas and galadriel (as some of you already know). they are my favorite characters. no offense or anything, but i did not mind one bit that ol' Tom B. wasn't in the movie

Aragorn or Faramir. http://216.40.201.38/games/diablo/Whdatk.gif

My favorite character is Legolas. I love elves and i thought his character was a very important part. Also the actor Orlando Bloom who played him in the movie is very hot!!! but that is not why i like Legolas as my favorite character [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Tom Bombadil was a weird, psychotic fellow, and I liked him immensely.

Eowyn did exactly what I was hoping she would do, so I remember what she did when I come to an uncertain fork in the road and it helps.

Gandalf is my involuntary role model, but I don't care for him much.

Pippin and Merry are hilarious, but maybe a little shallow-minded until the end.

Frodo is overlooked because he did the hugest and most desperately self-sacrificial act of all. I believe that he's the "best" because of his true depth and beauty of character and because of what he suffered even after the trial had passed.

[ June 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]

Boromir is my favourite.
It's the ordinary 'stock' characters like Aragorn, Arwen and Gandalf that everyone loves and cheers for, but it's the characters like Boromir and Gollum which give the LOTR it's real emotional depths. They are both flawed characters - Gollum is driven mad by greed, Boromir is so incensed by the slaughter of his people that he does not think of the consequences of his action - they are complex, with both flaws and virtues - just like all people.

I find few who can enjoy the charecter of Gimli, the dwarf as much as I do. He's rambunctious, he is an awesome fighter and he's like a fuzzy teddy bear weilding an axe that you wanna put on a shelf and enjoy for years. I dislike in the movie they make him to seem a bad guy, not bad bad, yet they make him seem foolish. At first yes he is, but the Lady of the Wood changes all of this and he becomes a gentlemen---er gentledwarf.

I agree, in the books Gimli is much more sympathetic than in the movie! They left out those scenes in Lothlorien that make him change his mind about elves. I find it rather touching how he adores Galadriel and how he and Legolas become such good friends.

But my very favourite character in the book is definitely Sam. None of the other characters reveal so much of their thoughts and feelings and "inner debates" to the reader as Sam. That`s why I can really share his emotions. His faithful, devoted love for Frodo is for me one of the most touching things. The tears rise in my eyes every time I read "the choices of Master Samwise". Sam is so humble and yet so brave. He doesn`t trust his own judgement, but instinctively he always does the right thing. (I wonder how (and if) they are going to show this in TTT movie! )

The more I read LotR, the better I also like Frodo. But I kind of see him through Sam`s eyes. He is a very complex character, and you can only guess what`s going on inside him.

I also like Faramir very much. He is noble and valiant and wise, yet more human than Aragorn.

My favorite character is......TREEBEARD. I am hoping that he won't look so computerized in the movie. When I saw the TTT trailer I was alittle worried about it...he looked somewhat computerized and more like a tree. From any description of him that I've ever heard he's said to look like a man/tree. Maybe my eyes were just playing tricks on me as I was watching the trailer....I'm sure I wont be disappointed when I see him.....

Frodo Lives!

My favourite character in the books is the
Witch-King of Angmar, always has been, since
I read the book for the first time.
I can't even tell exactly why, but he is
absoutely fascinating...

Directly behind him are the other Nazgul, I
like them much. I always felt a bit sorry for
them as they are poor, lonely and very cruel
treatened creatures.

I loved every single character in the book! Do I have to pick just one? Well I think my ultimate favourite was.... *sits and thinks* I honestly don't know. It varies from book to book really. Eowyn was totally one of my favourites in TTT and RotK. I also liked Aragorn throughout the books as well. It's a hard question. In the Sil. it's Luthien so far.

I totally agree with Serpenthade, he said it all. Turin Turumbar all da way!

Hey, i was sooo mad that Tom Bombadil wasn't in the movie! But, he wasn't my favorite character anyways. My fav is Frodo!!!!!!! I love his character, and Wood was good playing him. but, ya know, the book is always better! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
http://www.iespana.es/esencia/esenci...ulas/frodo.jpg

Actually I understand perfectly why Tom Bombadil was not put in the movie.I did emensely enjoy the chapter in the book referring to him and thought him to be a very funny and sort of foolish character, but what did he ultimately have to do with the rest of the story-line? Peter Jackson's main purpose when making this movie was to focus upon the destruction of the One Ring, and quite frankly I do not see what Bombadil,Goldberry, and Old Man Willow have to do with that.

Oh, yes almost forgot my favorite character would have to be Gandalf the Grey and White and Saruman the White.

Borimir, Aragorn, or Legolas. I can't decide which. I guess Borimir would pobably have to be my favorite, with Aragorn and Legolas tied for second (Legolas can do so many cool things with his weapons!). So I guess mine is Borimir. [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]

From The hobbit- Kili and Fili [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

From Lord Of The Rings- Legolas

From the Silmarillion-Yavanna and Huan (and how could I forget Arien....)

My favorite characters in both the books and the movies are Galadriel and Eowyn. They both show that women can be just as strong as men and they have such powerful characters in both the books and the movies.

I love Elrond. He displays a timeless wisdom that very few can grasp.

it was Merry and Pippin for me even wen i watched the movie b4 reading the book. i thought that i might not enjoy their role in the book as much as i did in the movie but all is good [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I couldn't say I had a favortie character. Each one is my favorite in different ways. But if I just had to choose one, I suppose it would be either Frodo or Merry.

i cant choose, i love them all!!!
but if i had to choose probably Frodo or Pippin!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

My favorite character is certainly Boromir. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Mine fav. Character is Turin Turambar because he is brave, sad and mighty, he is Human but also not human.

Welcome to the Downs Katherine712 and Frodo007, hope you enjoy it being dead [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ April 24, 2003: Message edited by: Estanesse ]

Aragorn
Gandalf
Galadriel
Luthien
Eowyn
Faramir

And the order is pretty accurate too.

[ April 26, 2003: Message edited by: Luinalatawen ]

Túrin Túrambar, Húrin Thalion or Fëanor. Túrin and Húrin because they are simply so tragic and yet brave characters, and Fëanor because he is an Elven Lord, but not a pure good one like Glorfindel or Ecthelion. He's not completely good, nor completely evil. Probably it's Túrin, though.

That sums up my feelings about Boromir right there. I also loved Faramir in LotR.

But, I was also quite in love with Bard from The Hobbit for the longest time. He still holds a place as one of my favorite characters.

I would have to say Gimili is my favorite character even though he isnt in the book much I am facinated with the dwarven culture and its people

As i read the book i virtually nearly ended up liking all the charactors the same or near enough the same.

Overall though my favorite charector is Aragorn, because i like the way his charector develops as at first hes a mysteriouse Ranger that trvels the woods and in the end hr turns out to be the heir of Isildur and king to the throne of Gondor.

I too think that leaving Bombadil (and the Barrow Downs [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ) out of the movie was a mistake, but hey, the extended edition was 3 and a half hours long!
My favourite character in the book was Legolas, and maybe Aragorn as well. In movie I think Legolas. I liked the elf because, you know, immortality and stuff. And cool name. Besides, I`ve always liked a bow more than any other weapons.

My favorite characters must be Gollum and...........Radagast the Brown. Well,Radagast isn't really my favorite but he really interest me.He's intruiging.I think not telling more about him or giving him a bigger role was a major flaw of LotR.

I think my favorite chars would be Faramir and Eowyn. I cant just pick one over the other! hehe [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Faramir was very noble and loyal. Eowyn was tough and she knew she should be treated as an equal and not get special treatment just because she is a woman. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Hmmmm...I love:

Sam - because of his loyalty, Eowyn - her coarage, Aragorn - his power. I love many!