Current Events > Who had the hardest job in Lord of the Rings?

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These are the people I could think of, but if you think someone else had a harder job, include that in your post.

Spoilers obviously will be in this topic

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Gimli. All that walking they had to do and his legs were so stumpy.

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Aragorn did by far more actual work than the rest of them.

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Alteres posted...

Aragorn did by far more actual work than the rest of them.

Gandalf was running all over the place trying to make people who did not like each other work together (at least in the movies).

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Gandalf has been busting his ass for a LONG time.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Gandalf was running all over the place trying to make people who did not like each other work together (at least in the movies).

Prancing around on shadowfax and running his mouth a lot.

Smoking his pipe while other people are toiling away, disgraceful I say.

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Chicken posted...

Gimli. All that walking they had to do and his legs were so stumpy.

Very dangerous over short distances, though.

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Sam and Frodo basically had the same job, but Sam also had to carry Frodo and save his life multiple times so I vote Sam.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Gandalf was running all over the place trying to make people who did not like each other work together (at least in the movies).

Yeah but he has supernatural powers so it's easy.

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BilalPowell posted...

Sam and Frodo basically had the same job, but Sam also had to carry Frodo and save his life multiple times so I vote Sam.

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Gandalf had to deal with how fucking stupid everyone else was.

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Captain_Qwark posted...

Legolas probably had like 20x the kill count ad anyone else

Yeah but it looked easy

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Sam freaking literally carrying Frodo all way to the volcano.
Sam should from day one had confiscated the ring from Frodo and then himself made the quest to the volcano.

BilalPowell posted...

Sam and Frodo basically had the same job, but Sam also had to carry Frodo and save his life multiple times so I vote Sam.

and he had to deal with Frodo's constant whining. Sam is definitely the biggest hero of the series.

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Gandalf had to put up with the dumb shit of everyone around him, so he had the hardest job.

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I give Sam a lot of credit too because he was more out of his element than the others (beside frodo)

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Sam for sure.

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Boromir

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Frodo.

He suffered so much from the pain, he had to left middle earth and leave everything behind including his home and friends. He could never recover from the wounds of that journey.

The other ones still had contact after the war of the ring. Pippin even left his home to die in minas thirit iirc.
Maybe legolas and gimli were the only ones who saw frodo again because those two went for the west I think. Much for the honor of gimli as only dwarf ever.

Man, I love lotr.

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Bilbo. To willingly surrender the ring and just peace out to the elves. Made it look easy too. Greatest generation.

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Wonder why Frodo is losing? I mean the ring turns you into Gollum

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Gandalf was running all over the place trying to make people who did not like each other work together (at least in the movies).

Ye but he has magic powers

Gandalf toiled for centuries with a bullseye on his back, dealt with crooked co workers, friend zoned by Galadriel

rodu_jr posted...

Gandalf toiled for centuries with a bullseye on his back, dealt with crooked co workers, friend zoned by Galadriel

literally died

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The character that literally resurrected

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Gandalf had the most work but Frodo/Sam probably had the hardest.

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rodu_jr posted...

Gandalf toiled for centuries with a bullseye on his back, dealt with crooked co workers, friend zoned by Galadriel

Ye but he has magic powers

Frodo. I'm no expert on LotR lore, but from what I understand the rings had to power to influence the mind of the person holding it, and Sauron's ring trumps all of them when it comes to that (as well as many other things). It must have taken a ton of willpower to not give in to it, and even though he needed Sam's help a few times to keep him from giving in to it you still probably have to give him credit for resisting as long as he did. And that's on top of the other stuff they went through.

Srk700 posted...

Frodo. I'm no expert on LotR lore, but from what I understand the rings had to power to influence the mind of the person holding it, and Sauron's ring trumps all of them when it comes to that (as well as many other things). It must have taken a ton of willpower to not give in to it, and even though he needed Sam's help a few times to keep him from giving in to it you still probably have to give him credit for resisting as long as he did.

Boromir got influenced immediately from like 20 feet away

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Frodo for sure. Imagine hiking through a country on foot with a magical ring that is continuously trying to mind-fuck you and torment you even when you sleep, all while slowly depriving you of the basic necessities such as the desire to eat, and psychologically manipulating you to question your will to survive while you constantly battle the desire to give in.

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Irony posted...

Boromir got influenced immediately from like 20 feet away

Yeah, and Sam was right next to Frodo pretty much the whole time. It had next to no effect on him, and considering that Sam basically had to drag Frodo the whole way there... Sam definitely had the hardest job.

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Frodo clearly

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GrandConjuraton posted...

Yeah, and Sam was right next to Frodo pretty much the whole time. It had next to no effect on him, and considering that Sam basically had to drag Frodo the whole way there... Sam definitely had the hardest job.

The ring is the one who chooses.

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Pathos_ posted...

Frodo.

He suffered so much from the pain, he had to left middle earth and leave everything behind including his home and friends. He could never recover from the wounds of that journey.

The other ones still had contact after the war of the ring. Pippin even left his home to die in minas thirit iirc.
Maybe legolas and gimli were the only ones who saw frodo again because those two went for the west I think. Much for the honor of gimli as only dwarf ever.

Man, I love lotr.

Imagine a witcher 3 quality game telling the story of LotR. One day. I hope. One day, maybe when we're all in our 60s and 70s. We'll get such game.

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Aragorn couldve won the war, killed Sauron AND destroyed the ring all within the month. Assuming he got his dead army.

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Pretty close poll actually

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the bearer of the ring was the subject of its corruption. its most notable effect on the others was visible only when offered to them (gandalf's terrified refusal, galadriel's genuine temptation).

safe to say that in bearing the ring, frodo was subjected to the visions of power that were all but overwhelming to the most powerful beings in the world...every day. galadriel's speech is meant to be a vocalization of precisely what the ring was telling her.

sam wasn't subjected to that because frodo was bearing it. his role was crucial, but he could not suffer the corruption of the ring for frodo.

that said, all of the events of the novels were quite clearly the machinations of gandalf from beginning to end. the elven ring he bore had the power to inspire, and it's clear that whereever he went, he set to the difficult task of motivating the free people to resist sauron. he died for the fellowship, as they were a part of the plan, and he came back because he wasn't finished.

frodo was the pawn, gandalf the player, but one cannot question that frodo was the one who suffered most.

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the stunt people? I dunno.

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I will give Sam props for not being overcome by a desire to seize the ring from Frodo. It must have been hard on him too.

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Gandalf followed by Aragorn.

Being of the Maiar, Gandalf had no peers in Middle Earth, save Sauron and Saruman (and Radsgast I suppose), and the mere possible existence of the Ring undid Saruman. Gandalf had to direct the course of events without falling himself. The Council of Elrond was rough..he knew EXACTLY what the right thing to do was, but needed to direct things in a way to give the peoples of M-E the choice of what to do (even if it was possibly stupid) while not being overbearing about it. Sure, it was pretty certain that wiser members like Elrond and Glorfindel would direct the Council to the right path, but it was hardly guaranteed.

But most important, the temptation for him had to be incredible. He had suspicions about the Ring even before Bilbo's party (so much so he felt passing the Ring to Frodo was the only worthwhile point of the party), but afterwards, he was almost certain that it was the One Ring. Despite this, he resisted the urge FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS to show the patience to carefully investigate and follow the proper provenance. During that time, he was the only being in all M-E who had any inkling that the most powerful object in the world was found, let alone knowing exactly where it was. He had to have been tempted many times to abandon all patience and test the Ring before he would have been ready, or to take it up himself. Not only does he keep patience and resists but goes the other way and shows insane trust to actually confide it to Aragorn

Cobra1010 posted...

Imagine a witcher 3 quality game telling the story of LotR. One day. I hope. One day, maybe when we're all in our 60s and 70s. We'll get such game.

That would be more than awesome but but with the death of Tolkien's son who took care of the lotr brand, the chances drop unfortunately to 0.

Back then we got the two tower and return of the king as awesome ps2 games, the turn based role play game "the third age" with party management and all that cool turn based action and even more than 1 good RTS game with the battle for middle earth.

Now we get a gollum game and an overbloaded and overproduced Amazon series.

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BilalPowell posted...

Sam and Frodo basically had the same job, but Sam also had to carry Frodo and save his life multiple times so I vote Sam.

this

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Machete posted...

the stunt people? I dunno.

I just read about how the stunt person for the hobbits (I guess they had one guy do the stunts for all 4 hobbits?) broke his back falling off a horse in a scene in RotK. Dude got fucked up a lot making that movie...

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The DEM Eagles.

Pathos_ posted...

That would be more than awesome but but with the death of Tolkien's son who took care of the lotr brand, the chances drop unfortunately to 0.

Back then we got the two tower and return of the king as awesome ps2 games, the turn based role play game "the third age" with party management and all that cool turn based action and even more than 1 good RTS game with the battle for middle earth.

Now we get a gollum game and an overbloaded and overproduced Amazon series.

The only one I played was the first battle for middle earth and I liked that a lot. I think I've seen TTT and RotK game.

Looked them up and they all seem cheap buy except for the rts games. May try to get the ps2 games and play them on my fat ps3 that's packed up.

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Frodo.

He didn't really succeed on his own, Sam had to save him a number of times, Frodo failed to actually give up the ring on his own and the journey took a greater toll on him than anyone else (who survived it).

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Isildur.

His job was so hard that he failed at it.

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