Tolkien's Characters
It seems to me that the only characters Tolkien really developed in the trilogy were Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Eowyn, Denethor, Boromir, and maybe a few others. Many of them seemed kind of extraneous and without depth, ie Arwen. Is Tolkien simply inviting his readers to develop their own interpretations of the characters? (In which case, it is rather hard for people to complain so much when PJ amplifies Arwen's character a little so people care about her plight)
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