Favorite LOTR character

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The Lord of the Rings is THE fantasy epic that all other fantasy sagas are often judged against. This is yet another thread about it. Who are your favorite LOTR characters?
Mine:
Frodo
Sam
Gandalf
Aragorn

Gollum. You know, lonely, independent and obsessed

Male: Female:
Frodo Arwen
Gandalf Eowyn
Aragorn

hmmm...

Movie Male: Tie tween Gimli and Gandalf
Movie Female: Eowyn
Book Male: Tie tween Gandalf, Faramir, and Tom Bombadil (It is upsetting to me that he isn't in the movie, he might be in the extended cut tho, I dunno.
Book Female: Eowyn and Tom Bombadil's companion (forget her name)
Non Human Character: Treebeard (yes, Im counting gandalf, dwarves/elves/hobbits as human for simplicities sake.)


I could go into his other works very easily, bbut right now this is all I will post.

Gimli.

Gollum, for the reasons stated above. Gandalf, due to his sheer awesomeness. If The Hobbit is included as well, then Beorn.

In general, Sam.

From the book, Sam, Galadriel, Faramir.

From the radio play, all of them.

The only main characters from the book who appeared in the recent films were Galadriel and Boromir, which was a bit silly because Sam and Frodo should have been in what with the book being about them and all. They did expand the minor character Haldir into a representative of an intriguing race of Sleaze Elves, so I'll pick him.

Goldberry.

yeah, at least my one guess was right. I was bouncing between goldberry and goldbloom

Sam. Because he's a gardener that battles a spider the size of an elephant with only a sword, slightly longer than a dagger.

As anyone in my gaming group will tell you, I am first, last and always a devoté of the elves.

For LOTR characters I need look no farther than Legolas.

A mantle that I'm certain will be passed on upon Brandon Sanderson's completion of The Wheel of Time

My favourite 'character' of the books is probably the narrator, but the stand out scene in the book is Aragorn's speech to the riders when he's chasing down the kidnapped hobbits with Legolas and Gimli. Sadly they replaced it with a shorter, cinema-friendly soundbite conversation with added silliness from the dwarf in the movie. Not that it detracted from the excellence of Jackson's interpretation in my view.

Favourite movie character is Gollum. That was a quality performance, and a quality piece of casting.

Gandalf....he is sooo cool. I also have a thing for men with long wizard beards...they are sooo untangably mysterious

There's a Cimmerian, an albino and a ninja brat outside would like a quiet word with you, and they're not alone.

The Cimmerian is Conan, the ninja brat is Naruto. So who's the albino?

Elric of Melniboné (from Moorcock's novels).

The brat is Arya Stark from A Song of Ice and Fire, which I think has the best chance of becoming a modern yardstick for series fantasy. Conan exemplifies sword-and-sorcery to the point that the mere mention of "barbarian" will conjure him up, and Moorcock wrote the infamous Epic Pooh criticism of Tolkein and his ilk.