The RPlague

[mark12_30]

Wait.

In all of the works of Tolkien, there were:

2 orphaned characters

Frodo being a rather prominent one?
Aragorn, another prominent one?
Where was Sam's mom?
Boromir & Faramir's mom died early; Celebrian departed over sea;
and I'm forgetting much of the Sil, but I think there were some broken wanderers there too...

1 sword-wielding warrior maiden(who was not an elf)

no characters with unknown pasts

Ah... Gandalf? Neniel?

and a grand total of zero characters with amnesia.

Neniel, Turin's sister and wife, again?

And how about Thorin's father when Gandalf found him in the Necromancer's prison?

And how about partial amnesia in Gandalf himself-- as he "awoke" after his battle with the Balrog?

Anyway, it's been a while since I read Sil, and my brain is a sieve on such things, but I don't think amnesia was that rare, nor being orphaned or at least losing a parent.