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Male characters in literature

  • Company of the RingIn the dark lands of Mordor, nine shadowy figures known as Black Riders or Ringwraiths ride in silence. They are the enemy that demands a counterforce. J.R.R.
  • Frodo BagginsFrodo Baggins is a hobbit of the Shire who, on the 22nd of September, shares a birthday with his cousin Bilbo. That shared birthday is one small thread in a…
  • Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887, tucked inside a Christmas annual called Beeton's, in a novel titled A Study in Scarlet.
  • King ArthurA warrior on the field of Y Gododdin has just slain three hundred enemies, and the poet praising him still cannot offer the highest compliment.
  • BoromirBoromir stood ten years old when his mother Finduilas died. He inherited the Horn of Gondor that same year, becoming heir apparent to Denethor II, the 26th…
  • Pippin TookPeregrin Took is the youngest of the four hobbits who walk out of the Shire and into the greatest war Middle-earth has ever seen.
  • James Bond (literary character)James Bond, Commander, Royal Naval Reserve, code number 007, was born on the page on the 17th of February 1952. That morning, Ian Fleming sat down at his…
  • Peter Pan (character)Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, stepped onto a London stage on the 27th of December 1904 at the Duke of York's Theatre, and he has never quite left.
  • Merry BrandybuckMeriadoc Brandybuck, the hobbit the world knows simply as Merry, begins The Lord of the Rings as a conspirator. Long before Frodo Baggins set foot on the…
  • Jacen SoloJacen Solo begins his fictional life as one of a pair of unnamed twins Leia Organa Solo is carrying in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire.
  • Sam Weller (character)In 1836, the monthly parts of The Pickwick Papers sold only about 1,000 copies. Sales figures remained flat and the book faced commercial failure until a new…
  • AladdinAladdin is one of the best-known tales tied to One Thousand and One Nights, yet it was never part of the original text. The Frenchman Antoine Galland added…
  • DenethorIn the besieged city of Minas Tirith, Denethor II orders his servants to burn him alive on a funeral pyre prepared for himself and Faramir.
  • Captain AhabCaptain Ahab stands at the helm of the Pequod with a leg carved from ivory, staring out at a sea that once took something from him.
  • Winnie-the-PoohWinnie-the-Pooh began life not in the pages of a book but in a Christmas story printed by the London newspaper Evening News on the 24th of December 1925. A.
  • Elric of MelnibonéElric of Melniboné first appeared in print in June 1961, in a novella called "The Dreaming City" published in Science Fantasy No. 47.
  • Samwise GamgeeIn the dark mountain pass of Cirith Ungol, a hobbit named Samwise Gamgee hoisted his master onto his broad shoulders. Frodo Baggins could no longer walk…
  • Gimli (Middle-earth)Gimli, son of Glóin, is a fictional Dwarf warrior in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and one of the primary characters in that story.
  • HAL 9000HAL 9000 has a face: a single camera lens, red and yellow at its center, watching from nearly every room aboard the spacecraft Discovery One.
  • LegolasLegolas, a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm, appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as one of nine companions chosen to carry out the most…
  • BarbapapaTalus Taylor walked through the Luxembourg Garden in Paris during May 1970. He heard a child ask his parents for something called Baa baa baa baa.