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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.
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Merry, Pippin, Gimli, Galadriel, Gandalf, Faramir, Theoden, Saruman, Grima, Legolas, Treebeard, Tom Bombadil...Arwen is the only character that could've used a little bit of characterization. Presumably Tolkien intentionally left that out for the same reason he placed the story of Aragorn and Arwen in the Appendix. A short description or something would've been nice, I agree. I find this to be the only case.
[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: Legolas ]