Gods, kings, heroes, villains and the humble who changed the course of the Ages.
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Gollum, once the Stoor-hobbit Sméagol of the Gladden Fields, murdered his friend Déagol for the One Ring and was hollowed out by it over five centuries in the dark. Guide and betrayer of Frodo, he took the Ring at the Cracks of Doom and fell with it into the fire, accomplishing the quest that the Ring-bearer could not.
Lord of Dor-lómin
Húrin Thalion, lord of Dor-lómin, was the greatest warrior of the Edain. He held the Fen of Serech alone at the end of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, was taken alive to Morgoth, defied him and was cursed with his whole house, and sat bound on Thangorodrim for twenty-eight years watching the ruin of his children Túrin and Nienor.
Second High King of Arnor and Gondor
Isildur, elder son of Elendil, stole a fruit of the White Tree in Númenor, founded Minas Ithil in Gondor, and cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand at the end of the Last Alliance. He refused to destroy it, and two years later he was slain by Orcs at the Gladden Fields when the Ring slipped from his finger, so that his name was bound to it as Isildur's Bane.
Prince of the Woodland Realm
Legolas, son of Thranduil of the Woodland Realm, was the Elf of the Fellowship of the Ring. A peerless archer and tracker, he walked from Rivendell to the Black Gate beside Aragorn and Gimli, forged the first true friendship between Elf and Dwarf in an age, and after the death of the King Elessar built a ship and sailed into the West with his Dwarven friend.
Princess of Doriath
Lúthien, daughter of King Thingol and the Maia Melian, was the fairest of all the Children of Ilúvatar. For love of the mortal Beren she overcame Sauron, put Morgoth himself to sleep in his own hall, and won a Silmaril from the Iron Crown; she then moved Mandos to pity and chose mortality so that she and Beren might not be parted. Every line of the Half-elven descends from her.
Lord of Himring
Maedhros, eldest son of Fëanor, was the tallest and most temperate of the seven brothers, the captive of Thangorodrim rescued by Fingon, and the lord of Himring who anchored the eastern Siege of Angband. Bound by the Oath, he led the last two Kinslayings and ended his life by casting himself and a Silmaril into a chasm of fire.
King of the Valar
Manwë is the King of the Valar and the Elder King of Arda, lord of the winds and the airs, who of all the Ainur understands the mind of Eru most deeply. Brother in thought to Melkor, he is the appointed ruler of the World, dwelling with Varda on Taniquetil and served by the Eagles.
Lord of Utumno
Melkor, named Morgoth by Fëanor, was the mightiest of the Ainur and the first Dark Lord, who marred the Music, warred with the Valar for the mastery of Arda, destroyed the Two Trees, stole the Silmarils and ruled Beleriand from Angband until the Valar cast him into the Void at the end of the First Age. All evil in Arda descends from him.
Ring-bearer
Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's gardener, was the companion who carried the Ring-bearer to Mount Doom and briefly bore the Ring himself. He restored the Shire after the Scouring, was seven times Mayor, and at the last, as the final Ring-bearer, sailed into the West.
Head of the Istari
Saruman the White, Curunír to the Elves, was the chief of the Istari and head of the White Council, a Maia of Aulë whose great knowledge of craft and Ring-lore turned to pride. He seized Isengard, fell under Sauron's sway through the palantír, bred the Uruk-hai and made war on Rohan, was overthrown by the Ents and cast out of the order by Gandalf, and died a beggar's death in the Shire at the hand of his own servant.
Lord of Mordor
Sauron was a Maia of Aulë who became Morgoth's lieutenant in the First Age and, after his master's fall, the Dark Lord of the Second and Third Ages in his own right. He forged the One Ring to rule all others, brought about the Downfall of Númenor, and was finally destroyed when the Ring was unmade in Mount Doom.
The great spider of Cirith Ungol, last child of Ungoliant, who had haunted the pass into Mordor since before Sauron built Barad-dûr. Gollum led Frodo into her lair; she stung him, and Sam, with Sting and the light of Galadriel's phial, wounded her so grievously that she fled into the dark and was not seen again.
Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities (his own boast)
The last great dragon of Middle-earth, who came down out of the North in T.A. 2770, destroyed Dale, drove the Dwarves from the Lonely Mountain and lay on their treasure for a hundred and seventy-one years. Roused by Bilbo's theft of a cup, he burned Lake-town and was killed by Bard's Black Arrow.
King of Angmar
The Witch-king was the greatest of the Nine Ringwraiths, a king and sorcerer of the Second Age who took one of the Nine Rings and became Sauron's deadliest servant. As King of Angmar he destroyed the North-kingdom of Arnor; as Lord of Minas Morgul he ended the line of Gondor's kings; and as the Black Captain he led the hunt for the Ring and the assault on Minas Tirith, where Éowyn and Merry fulfilled Glorfindel's prophecy and destroyed him.
King of the Mark
Théoden son of Thengel was the seventeenth King of Rohan, the king whom Gríma Wormtongue and Saruman had made old before his time and whom Gandalf roused to lead his people again. He won the Battle of the Hornburg, mustered the Rohirrim at Dunharrow, and broke the siege of Minas Tirith in the great charge across the Pelennor, where he died beneath his horse after felling the chieftain of the Haradrim.
King of Doriath
Elwë Singollo, called Thingol, led the Teleri on the Great Journey, met the Maia Melian in Nan Elmoth and never left Middle-earth again. As King of Doriath he ruled the Sindar for the whole of the First Age, set Beren the impossible price of a Silmaril for his daughter Lúthien, and was slain in his own treasury by Dwarves over the jewel he had once demanded.
King of Durin's Folk
Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thráin II and heir of Durin's line, spent most of his life as a king in exile after Smaug took Erebor. In T.A. 2941 he led twelve Dwarves and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins on the quest that ended the dragon and restored the Kingdom under the Mountain, and he died of his wounds in the Battle of Five Armies after reconciling with Bilbo.
Lord of the House of Hador
Tuor son of Huor, born after his father's death at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, was raised by Grey-elves in Mithrim, enslaved by Easterlings, and chosen by Ulmo to carry his warning to the hidden city of Gondolin. There he married Turgon's daughter Idril, fathered Eärendil, and led the survivors out of the city's fall. At the end of his life he sailed into the West, and alone of Men he is said to have been numbered among the Elves.
King of Gondolin
Turgon, second son of Fingolfin, was the founder and king of the hidden city of Gondolin, built in secret at Ulmo's prompting and kept from Morgoth for nearly four centuries. He became High King of the Noldor after the Nirnaeth, received Tuor and Ulmo's warning, and died when the city fell through the treason of his nephew Maeglin.
Lord of Dor-lómin
Túrin, son of Húrin and Morwen, was the greatest and most ill-fated warrior of the Edain. Cursed by Morgoth through his father, he wandered from Doriath to outlawry, to Nargothrond and to Brethil, killed his friend Beleg by mischance and unknowingly married his own sister, and slew the dragon Glaurung before taking his own life.
Lord of Waters
Ulmo is the Lord of Waters, second in majesty only to Manwë among the Valar, who dwells alone in the deep seas rather than in Valinor. He never abandoned Middle-earth, and through streams, rivers and dreams he counselled the Elves and Men of Beleriand, above all Turgon of Gondolin and Tuor.
A primeval spirit of darkness in the shape of a monstrous spider, whose origin the Eldar never learned. Allied with Melkor she poisoned the Two Trees and drank their light, then turned on him at Lammoth and would have devoured him but for the Balrogs. Shelob and the spiders of Mirkwood were her descendants.
Queen of the Valar
Varda, called Elbereth by the Elves of Middle-earth, is the Queen of the Valar and the maker of the stars. Spouse of Manwë, she kindled the constellations under which the Elves awoke, hallowed the Silmarils, and is the Vala whom the Elves love and invoke above all others.
Last Lord of Andúnië
Amandil, last Lord of Andúnië and father of Elendil, was the leader of the Faithful in the reign of Ar-Pharazôn. Dismissed from the King's council when Sauron rose to power, he withdrew to Rómenna, and when the Great Armament was planned he sailed secretly into the West to plead with the Valar, as Eärendil had, and was never heard of again.