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Part of the attraction of the The Lord of the Rings is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist.

Pippin

Merry

canon will be defined as anything pertaining to Middle-earth that was written by J.R.R. Tolkien

Turgon

Captain of Gondor

Killed a Balrog in single combat

Glorfindel

The Witch King of the Nazgul

saved Frodo from all nine nazgul

Prophesied the Witch King would not be slain by a man

Radagast

Frodo

even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are.

John Howe

led the armies of Rivendell

Beregond

Rosie Cotton

internally consistent with themselves and any other directly related works

The Houses of Healing

Elrond

Isildur

Tolkien's writing is laden with details and hints

Minas Tirith

Saruman

Gandalf

Gimli

Legolas

Galadriel

Boromir

Faramir

Aragorn

I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed

Tauriel