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A character sheet in progress for the novel The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien and its upcoming movie adaptation. Film-only tropes should be marked as such.

Many of the characters also appear in The Lord of the Rings, so be sure to check that character sheet out too. And while we're at it, The Silmarillion is set in the same universe as well, the character sheet being here.


The Hobbit[]

The Company[]

Bilbo Baggins[]

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 “I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.”

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See The Lord of the Rings character sheet for tropes that apply to him in that work.

Thorin II Oakenshield[]

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 "I am Thorin son of Thráin son of Thrór King under the Mountain! I return!"

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Fili[]

  • Boisterous Bruiser: It's good to be a merry young Dwarf heading for his first grand adventure...
  • Fanon: For some reason many fans believe he and Kili are twins.
  • Hair of Gold
  • Jumped At the Call: In the movie he and his brother are very happy to get to be part of the Company.
  • The Other Marty: Rob Kazinsky was replaced by Dean O'Gorman only after some material was already filmed.
  • Young Gun: In the movie he and Kili are still youngsters who haven't travelled far from home before.
  • Warrior Prince

Kili[]

Balin[]

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 “What have we done, O king? … Is it a crime to be lost in the forest, to be hungry and thirsty, to be trapped by spiders? Are the spiders your tame beasts or your pets, if killing them makes you angry?”

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Dwalin[]

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 “What is our burglar doing for us? Since he has got an invisible ring, and out to be a specially excellent performer now, I am beginning to think he might go through the Front Gate and spy things out a bit!”

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Óin[]

Glóin[]

Dori[]

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 “I can’t always be carrying burglars on my back, down tunnels and up trees! What do you think I am? A porter?”

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Nori[]

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 “You’ve left the burglar behind again!”

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 "Nobody quite knows what Nori gets up to most of the time, except that it’s guaranteed to be dodgy and quite probably, illegal."

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Ori[]

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 “They are coming.”

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Bifur[]

Bofur[]

Cquote1

 “Get up lazybones, or there will be no breakfast left for you.”

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Bombur[]

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 “I’m always last and I don’t like it … It’s somebody else’s turn today.”

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Friends...[]

Gandalf the Grey[]

See his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Elrond Half-elven[]

See his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Eagles[]

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 ”I hear wolves’ voices! Are the goblins at mischief in the woods?”

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Beorn[]

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 “A very good tale! The best I have heard for a long while. If all beggars could tell such a good one, they might find me kinder.”

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Thranduil the Elvenking[]

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 “Take him away and keep him safe, until he feels inclined to tell the truth, even if he waits a hundred years.”

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Bard the Bowman[]

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 “The dragon is coming or I am a fool!”

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Roäc the Raven[]

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 “We would see peace once more among Dwarves and Men and Elves after the long desolation."

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Dáin II Ironfoot[]

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 “You are the father of our Folk, and we have bled for you, and will again."

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Thráin II[]

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 "If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”

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Thrór[]

...And Foes[]

Smaug the Golden[]

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 "Revenge! Revenge! The King under the Mountain is dead and where are his kin that dare seek revenge? Girion Lord of Dale is dead, and where are his sons' sons that dare approach me? I kill where I wish and none dare resist."

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 “You have nice manners for a thief and a liar.”

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  • Attention deficit.... Oh, shiny!: In the movie he gets distracted by a giant, freshly cast golden statue long enough for the still molten interior to burst out and engulf him.
  • Badass
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 “My armor is like tenfold shields. My teeth are like swords. My claws, spears. The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt. My wings, a hurricane. And my breath, death.”

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  • Compelling Voice: Comes with the Badass Baritone territory
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy: "The Quest of Erebor" in Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth, Gandalf states that part of the reason he pushed Bilbo into joining Thorin and Co. on their expedition was because Smaug knows the scent of Dwarves too well for them to effect a stealth mission, but the dragon would likely not be familiar with the smell of a Hobbit. Smaug, in his ultimate moment of Genre Savvy, bypasses this discrepancy of knowledge by tracing the origin of Bilbo and the Dwarves to Lake-town and attacking there instead.
  • Disproportionate Retribution
  • Evil Sounds Deep: In the cartoon, in which he is voiced by the very intimidating Richard Boone, and now in the Jackson film, by Benedict Cumberbatch.
  • Giant flyer: Naturally.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: From the description it comes close to Eye Beams. Literally Eye Beams in the animated 1970s movie.
  • Greed
  • Light Is Not Good
  • MacGuffin Guardian
  • Meaningful Name: His means "to squeeze through a hole" in Old Germanic.
  • Narcissist: One of his most prominent qualities. Smaug is an utterly egomaniacal creature who believes that he is the strongest creature in existence. He never believes that a single individual can threaten him, and sees it as his right to wreak havoc where he pleases purely because he is capable of it.
  • No sell: Practically, almost nothing the lake towners throw at him do anything to harm him. The only reason Bard is able to kill his is because he exploited a chink in Smaug's armor.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: They talk for one.
  • Pride
  • Red Baron: Aside from "the Golden" above, Bilbo reels off a whole list of titles for Smaug at one point. The most common is "the Magnificent".
  • Serkis Folk: In the movie, to match his and Benedict's facial expressions. From interviews that Benedict's done, it sounds like the motion capture will involve more than just facial expressions, possibly even up to full body suit.
  • Smug Super
  • Stronger with Age
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 "I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong, Thief in the Shadows!"

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Bert, Tom and William[]

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 Bert: “Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don’t look like mutton again tomorrer.”

William: “Poor little blighter! Let him go!”

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The Great Goblin[]

Goblins[]

Gollum[]

See his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Wargs[]

The Spiders of Mirkwood[]

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 “You were quite right … the meat’s alive and kicking!”

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The Master of Lake-town[]

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 People of Lake-town: “He may have a good head for business—especially his own business … but he is no good when anything serious happens!”

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  • Corrupt Bureaucrat: Even when he is helping the heroes he is ultimately after his own selfish interests.
  • Death by adaptation/death by materialism: In the book he runs off with some of the treasure and ends up starving to death. In the movie he buys it because he'd overloaded his escape boat with loot and couldn't get out of the way when Smaug lands on it.
  • Greed: His Fatal Flaw
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: His attempt to run away with the gold of his people leads to his Karmic Death.

Bolg[]

The Necromancer[]

Also see Sauron's character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Movie only characters[]

Some of these characters are from Tolkien's other books, such as Unfinished Talesof Numenor and Middleearth or the Appendixes of The Lord of the Rings and have been added into the movie adaptation, while some are made up by the movie script writers.

Galadriel[]

Also see her character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Saruman the White[]

Also see his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Radagast the Brown[]

Tauriel[]

Legolas[]

Also see his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Lindir[]

Alfrid[]

  • Canon Foreigner
  • Death by materialism: While the theatrical release makes it look as if he gets away scot-free the extended edition shows he dies when he hides in a catapult, a coin he's carrying falls onto the lever and launches him right into the mouth of a troll and they both end up suffocating.
  • Nice job fixing it villain: The above mentioned troll was about to kill Gandalf when Alfrid flew into its mouth.

Azog[]

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