The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all. In the quiet of the Shire, a young Hobbit inherits a burden that could save or destroy the world. Frodo Baggins must carry the One Ring across Middle-earth to the fires of Mount Doom — the only place it can be unmade. Alongside a fellowship of Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits, he will cross kingdoms at war, face ancient evils, and discover that even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

90 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Frodo Baggins — A gentle Hobbit burdened with destroying the most dangerous artifact in existence — his quiet kindness is both his greatest weapon and the thing the R
• Gandalf — An immortal spirit cloaked in the body of an old man — his vast cosmic power is deliberately constrained, forcing him to work through persuasion, fire
• Aragorn II Elessar — The rightful King of Gondor who spent decades hiding as a ranger in the wilderness — a man who distrusts his own bloodline because the last king in hi
• Samwise Gamgee — A gardener who follows his master into the land of shadow — his plain-spoken loyalty and stubborn refusal to despair make him the one person in Middle
• Legolas Greenleaf — An Elven prince who has walked Middle-earth for millennia yet still finds wonder in it — his immortal patience and lethal archery mask a growing restl
• Gimli — A Dwarf warrior whose fierce pride and volcanic temper conceal a poet's heart — the first of his kind to see beauty in an Elven queen and the last to
• Boromir — Gondor's greatest warrior and most devoted son — a man whose desperate love for his dying city makes him vulnerable to the one weapon that promises to
• Meriadoc Brandybuck — The sharpest mind among the Hobbits — a natural strategist disguised as a cheerful country gentleman who stabs the Witch-king of Angmar because he ref
• Peregrin Took — The youngest and most reckless member of the Fellowship — a Hobbit whose insatiable curiosity gets him into catastrophic trouble and whose unexpected
• Sauron — A fallen angel who poured his will into a golden ring — now a vast malice bound to a single desperate strategy, unable to conceive that anyone would c
• Saruman — The wisest of the wizards who convinced himself he was too intelligent to be corrupted — now a traitor building his own empire while telling himself i
• Gollum — A creature torn in half by five centuries of Ring-addiction — the remnant of a Hobbit named Sméagol wages a losing war against the predatory survival
• Galadriel — The most powerful Elf remaining in Middle-earth — she has spent three ages watching everything she loves diminish, and her choice to refuse the Ring i
• Arwen Undómiel — An immortal Elven princess who chooses to die — her love for Aragorn is not sacrifice but a deliberate wager that one mortal lifetime of real love is
• Éowyn — A warrior princess caged by duty and despair — she rides to battle not from courage alone but because she would rather die fighting than waste away wa
• Théoden — A king who wakes from enchanted sleep to find his son dead, his kingdom crumbling, and a war he cannot win waiting outside — and rides to meet it anyw
• Faramir — The son who was never good enough — a warrior-scholar who proves his quality not by taking the Ring when he could, but by letting it go when his fathe
• Elrond Half-elven — A six-thousand-year-old healer who has spent three ages watching the mistakes of Men and Elves repeat — now he must let his daughter choose mortality
• Éomer — A cavalry commander who disobeys his king to do what is right — fierce in battle and fiercely loyal, he fights through grief and exile to become the k
• Denethor II — A brilliant ruler destroyed by the one thing he could not control — a man who loved Gondor so fiercely that Sauron turned that love into a weapon and
• Treebeard — The oldest living creature in Middle-earth — an Ent who has watched forests burn and friends turn to trees, slow to anger but catastrophic when he fin
• The Witch-king of Angmar — The most terrible of Sauron's servants — once a great king of Men, now a deathless wraith whose existence is a prison of servitude and whose prophecie
• Gríma Wormtongue — A clever, craven counselor who sold his king for the promise of a woman — too weak to resist Saruman's will and too intelligent not to hate himself fo
• Shelob — An ancient spider-horror older than Sauron's reign, bloated on millennia of prey — she serves no master and wants only to feed, making her the most ho
• Bilbo Baggins — The Hobbit who found the One Ring by accident and gave it up by choice — now elderly and fading in Rivendell, writing his memoirs while the Ring's abs
• Tom Bombadil — A being of impossible joy who predates the world itself — the One Ring slides off him like water off stone, and no one, not even the Wise, can explain
• Celeborn — The silver lord of Lothlórien who rules beside the most powerful Elf in Middle-earth — patient, proud, and quietly formidable in his own understated w
• Glorfindel — An Elf-lord who died slaying a Balrog and was sent back from the Halls of Mandos — he radiates visible light and the Nazgûl flee from his presence.
• Gwaihir the Windlord — King of the Great Eagles, proud and sovereign — he rescues the desperate not as a servant but as a lord repaying debts on his own terms.
• Mouth of Sauron — A Man who served Sauron so long he forgot his own name — he is cruelty refined into diplomacy, delivering ultimatums with a smile that never reaches h
• Radagast the Brown — A wizard who wandered from his mission to save civilization because he fell in love with hedgehogs and birdsong — his neglect of duty is also a kind o
• Durin's Bane — A Maia spirit corrupted in the first age, wrapped in shadow and flame — it slept beneath Moria for five thousand years until the Dwarves dug too deep
• Haldir — Lothlórien's chief border warden — watchful, formal, and deeply suspicious of outsiders, yet capable of quiet grace when trust is earned.
• Thorin Oakenshield — A Dwarf king in exile whose pride and grief over a stolen homeland drove him to reclaim Erebor — only to discover that dragon-sickness runs in the blo
• Smaug — The last great dragon of Middle-earth — vain, brilliant, and casually apocalyptic, he destroyed a kingdom for its treasure and sleeps on it like a cat
• Thranduil — The Elvenking of Mirkwood — cold, isolationist, and fiercely protective of his realm, he would let the world burn before risking his people in someone
• Morgoth Bauglir — The first and greatest Dark Lord — a fallen god who poured so much of his power into corrupting the world that he diminished himself, becoming a tyran
• Lúthien Tinúviel — The most beautiful being who ever lived in Middle-earth — she put Morgoth himself to sleep with her voice and chose mortality for love, rewriting the
• Beren Erchamion — A mortal Man who cut a Silmaril from the crown of a god — driven not by glory or destiny but by the mad, stubborn fact that he fell in love with someo
• Fëanor — The greatest and most catastrophic Elf who ever lived — his brilliance created the Silmarils and his oath to recover them drowned the world in blood f
• Elendil the Tall — The Númenórean king who escaped the Downfall and founded the realms of Men in Middle-earth — he died standing against Sauron so his bloodline could en
• Isildur — The man who cut the Ring from Sauron's hand and then could not destroy it — his single moment of weakness echoes through three thousand years of histo
• Gil-galad — The last High King of the Noldor, who burned to death grappling Sauron bare-handed rather than let the Dark Lord escape the battlefield — his death en
• Goldberry — The River-daughter, Tom Bombadil's golden companion — her presence turns a strange woodland cottage into something that feels like the first morning o
• Ungoliant — A void-spider from before the world's making who devoured the light of the Two Trees — so hungry she turned on Morgoth himself, and even he could not

Locations

• The Shire — The pastoral homeland of the Hobbits — a pocket of green innocence insulated from the wars and darkness consuming the rest of Middle-earth.
• Gondor — The greatest kingdom of Men in Middle-earth — a once-magnificent realm of white stone cities and ancient bloodlines, now stretched thin defending the
• Rohan — The kingdom of the horse-lords — vast grasslands where mounted warriors ride to war with songs on their lips and a fierce loyalty to their ancient all
• Mordor — Sauron's fortress-realm — a black volcanic wasteland ringed by mountains, where darkness is manufactured and armies are bred for the final war against
• Lothlórien — The Golden Wood — an Elven realm preserved in timeless beauty by the power of Galadriel's ring, where the outside world's decay has not yet reached.
• Valinor — The Undying Lands beyond the western sea — where the Valar dwell in eternal light and where the weary immortals sail to find rest from Middle-earth's
• Hobbiton — A village of round doors and smoke rings in the heart of the Shire — where the most important journey in history began with a knock on a hobbit-hole d
• Bag End — The finest hobbit-hole in the Shire — Bilbo and Frodo's home beneath the Hill, where an extraordinary journey began with an unexpected party.
• Bree — A crossroads trading town where Hobbits and Men live side by side — the last outpost of civilization before the wild lands, and where Frodo first met
• Rivendell — Elrond's hidden valley — a sanctuary of Elven learning and beauty wedged between waterfalls and cliffs, where the Council that decided the Ring's fate
• Edoras — Capital of Rohan — the Golden Hall of Meduseld crowning a windswept hill, where a poisoned king sits while his kingdom crumbles around him.
• Minas Tirith — The White City — Gondor's seven-tiered capital carved into a mountainside, its white walls gleaming in defiance of the darkness gathering in Mordor ac
• Osgiliath — The ruined former capital of Gondor — a shattered city straddling the Anduin, now a no-man's-land where Gondor's soldiers fight to hold river crossing
• Dale — A prosperous city of Men at the foot of the Lonely Mountain — rebuilt after Smaug's destruction, thriving on trade with the Dwarves of Erebor.
• Erebor — The Lonely Mountain — a Dwarf kingdom of unimaginable wealth carved into a solitary peak, reclaimed from the dragon Smaug and now the mightiest Dwarf-
• Grey Havens — The last Elven port on the western shore of Middle-earth — where the white ships depart for Valinor, and where every Elven story in Middle-earth ends.
• Helm's Deep — Rohan's mountain fortress — the Hornburg and its Deeping Wall backed into an impassable gorge, where desperate last stands become legends.
• Isengard — Saruman's stronghold — a ring of stone walls enclosing the unbreakable tower of Orthanc, its once-green grounds ripped up for war forges and breeding
• Barad-dûr — Sauron's Dark Tower — a fortress of black iron and dark sorcery rising from Mordor's volcanic plain, sustained by the power of the One Ring.
• Minas Morgul — The Dead City — once the beautiful Minas Ithil, Tower of the Moon, now a corrupted fortress of the Nazgûl that glows with a sickly corpse-light.
• Cirith Ungol — The Spider's Pass — a treacherous mountain crossing into Mordor guarded by Shelob's lair and an orc watchtower, known only to those desperate or fooli
• Fangorn Forest — The oldest forest in Middle-earth — where the trees remember being young and the Ents walk slowly, growing angry at a world that has forgotten them.
• Dead Marshes — A haunted wetland where the dead of ancient battles lie preserved beneath the water — their pale faces watching from below, their candle-lights luring
• Weathertop — A ruined watchtower on a lonely hilltop — once a great fortress of the North-kingdom, now a windswept ruin where Frodo was wounded by the Witch-king's
• Pelennor Fields — The great townlands before Minas Tirith — fertile fields turned killing ground in the largest battle of the War of the Ring, where the fate of Men was
• Paths of the Dead — A dark passage beneath the White Mountains haunted by oath-breaking dead — who can be summoned only by the heir of Isildur to fulfill their ancient br
• Moria — The ancient Dwarf-kingdom of Khazad-dûm — a labyrinth of halls and mines stretching beneath the Misty Mountains, abandoned after the Dwarves delved to
• Mount Doom — The volcanic mountain where Sauron forged the One Ring — and the only place in Middle-earth where it can be unmade, its fires burning with the malice
• The Black Gate — Mordor's front door — a massive fortified gate of black iron between two towers, the most heavily guarded entrance to the most evil place in Middle-ea
• Ithilien — Gondor's lost garden — a once-beautiful region between the mountains and the river, now a contested borderland where Faramir's rangers wage a guerrill

Items

• The One Ring — A plain gold band containing the greater part of Sauron's power — the most dangerous object in Middle-earth, which corrupts all who bear it and can on
• Sting — An Elven short sword that glows blue in the presence of orcs — small enough for a Hobbit to wield as a proper sword, and sharper than anything its siz
• Glamdring — The Foe-hammer — an ancient Elven sword of Gondolin that glows blue near orcs, wielded by Gandalf with the quiet authority of someone who remembers th
• Andúril — Flame of the West — the reforged sword of Elendil, broken when Sauron was first defeated and remade for Aragorn as the symbol of the returning king.
• Orcrist — The Goblin-cleaver — an ancient Elven sword of Gondolin that glows blue near orcs, wielded by Thorin Oakenshield and buried with him beneath the Lonel
• The Palantíri — The Seeing-stones — seven indestructible crystal spheres that allow communication and far-sight across vast distances, now corrupted into instruments
• Mithril Coat — A shirt of mithril rings — light as a feather, hard as dragon-scales, worth more than the entire Shire, given by Bilbo to Frodo as the most practical
• Phial of Galadriel — A crystal vial containing the light of Eärendil's star — the most ancient and holy light in existence, given to Frodo as a weapon against the darkness
• Nenya — The Ring of Water — one of the three Elven Rings, set with adamant, borne by Galadriel to preserve Lothlórien in timeless beauty at the cost of her ow
• Narya — The Ring of Fire — one of the three Elven Rings, set with a ruby, borne by Gandalf to kindle courage and resist the weariness of the world.
• Vilya — The Ring of Air — mightiest of the three Elven Rings, set with sapphire, borne by Elrond to sustain Rivendell as a refuge against the darkness.
• Morgul-knife — A cursed blade of the Nazgûl — designed not to kill but to transform, its shard working toward the victim's heart to turn them into a wraith under Sau
• The Silmarils — Three jewels containing the light of the Two Trees of Valinor — the most beautiful and most destructive objects ever created, for which entire civiliz
• Horn of Gondor — The great war horn of the Steward's heir — its blast carries for leagues and has never gone unanswered in Gondor's territory, a promise of aid that be
• Grond — A hundred-foot battering ram with a wolf's head of black iron — named after Morgoth's war-hammer, swung by trolls, built for one purpose: to break wha

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