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The Hobbit (novel)/Characters


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

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

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

Thorin II Oakenshield

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

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

“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?”

Dwalin

“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!”

Óin

Glóin

Dori

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

Nori

“You’ve left the burglar behind again!”

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

Ori

“They are coming.”

Bifur

Bofur

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

Bombur

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

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

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

Beorn

“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.”

Thranduil the Elvenking

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

Bard the Bowman

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

Roäc the Raven

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

Dáin II Ironfoot

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

Thráin II

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

Thrór

...And Foes

Smaug the Golden

"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."

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

“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.”

"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!"

Bert, Tom and William

Bert: “Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don’t look like mutton again tomorrer.”
William: “Poor little blighter! Let him go!”

The Great Goblin

Goblins

Gollum

See his character sheet in The Lord of the Rings.

Wargs

The Spiders of Mirkwood

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

The Master of Lake-town

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!”

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

Azog


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