[WARNING!!! LOTR Discussion! Spoiler alert! Don't read this if you haven't watched the movie and want to do so untainted by any knowledge of its plot!]

I've been asking people who their favourite LOTR characters are. My favourite response comes from ttj, who surprisingly likes the 2 characters who died (Gandalf and Boromir... though ttj actually remembered the names of the actors who played these roles), as well as Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit. If I didn't misunderstand him, it was cos they chose to do the impossible mission thrust on them by fate, and in the end, managed to redeem themselves. For that, he chose the ones least favoured.