V:6 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Deorwine (Ta ally)

Hurin the Tall

Harding

Herefara

Herubrand

Horn

Fastred (Sp hero)

Hurin the Tall, Warden of the Keys, survived the battle, but the others all fell and were immortalized in the song of the Mounds of Mundburg. There's obviously some possibilites for more unique Rohirrim here.

V: 7 The Pyre of Denethor

No new characters named.

V: 8 The Houses of Healing

*Ioreth (Lo ally)

We meet the Lore-master and the Warden of the houses of healing, but they are not named in their conversations.

V: 9 The Last Debate

Angbor, Lord of Lamedon

Angbor definitely deserves a card. Aragorn calls him "the Fearless" since he is the lone warrior to hold his ground when the Army of the Dead show up with Aragorn at Linhir (on the road to Pelargir to route the Corsairs of Umbar). He later leads a host of 4,000 to defend Minas Tirith while the Host of the West marches to challenge Sauron at the Black Gates, and thus played a key in absentia role in convincing Imrahil and the Gondorians to agree to Gandalf's plan to distract Sauron's attention while Frodo and Sam head to Mt. Doom.

V: 10 The Black Gate Opens

*The Mouth of Sauron (enemy)

I'm not sure he was really "named", since the text explicitly says his name is forgotten, even by himself.

What do you mean he has no name? It says it right there! He's "Forgotten."

Sadly, the text closed that loophole, or I could make his name "remembered in no tale". The full sentence:

The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dur he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: "I am the Mouth of Sauron".

VI: 1 The Tower of Cirith Ungol

Radbug

Lagduf

Muzgash

These three orcs are mentioned in the conversation between Snaga and Shagrat, but are not represented in the game. Snaga himself is not listed because that's not his real name; it simply means slave.

VI:2 The Land of Shadow

No new named characters; we hear dialogue from three new orcs, but they are not named.

VI:3 Mount Doom

Jolly Cotton

*Young Tom Cotton

Nibs Cotton

*Rosie Cotton (Le ally)

Four young Cottons enter the text in a thirst-induced flashback to swimming in the pool at Bywater, two of which have dialogue in a later chapter. Unanswered question -- what did Nick Cotton have against swimming?

I think the player card of Tom Cotton is actually depicting his father, as he stands near the fire before the Battle of Bywater. And he clearly has white hair.

I agree, which is why I did not credit Young Tom with a card. He's only called Young Tom in the Scouring of the Shire, in Mount Doom Sam refers only to Tom, but he's grouped with Jolly and Nibs while Rosie is their sister, so clearly the younger Tolman Cotton was meant.

Still, there's three more unique hobbits named, two of which were with their Dad at the Battle of Bywater and the third was wielding a pitchfork. They'd also be very appropriate targets for their Dad.

My mistake, somehow I thought the * indicates a card in the game, but I was just tired and mixed it up, sorry.

VI: 4 The Field of Cormallen

Landroval (Ta ally)

[Thorondor]

Meneldor (Ta ally)

VI: 5 The Steward and the King

[Finduilas of Amroth]

VI: 6 Many Partings

*Gleowine (Lo ally)

[Aldor]

[Frea]

[Freawine]

[Goldwine]

[Deor]

[Gram]

[Frealaf]

[Leofa]

[Walda]

[Folca]

[Folcwine]

[Fengel]

[Scatha the Worm]

Mostly previously-unnamed kings of Rohan, but Gleowine is named here. I cheated a bit in giving him dialogue, part of his last song is recounted, but it's clearly translated and not the original.

VI: 7 Homeward Bound

Matt Heathertoes

Rowlie Appledore

Tom Pickthorn

Willie Banks

These four were killed in battle at Bree, along with a no-first-name Underhill from Staddle.

VI: 8 The Scouring of the Shire

*Hob Hayward

*Robin Smallburrow (Lo ally)

*Tom Cotton (Ta hero)

Nick Cotton

*Lily (Brown) Cotton

Mrs. Cotton's first name is not given in the main text, but appears in Sam's geneological chart. Sam's little sister married Tom Jr, so Young Tom is his brother-in-law two ways. You could even claim the Gaffer is his sister-in-law's father....

In the scouring of the Shire we learn for the first time that Pippin's father is the Thain of the Shire, making Pippin the prince of halflings if anyone is. To Bergil Pippin refers to Paladin as "my father farms the lands round Whitwell near Tuckborough in the Shire". Bergil would've been more impressed if he knew Pippin's father was the military leader of the Hobbits, and would shortly start shooting ruffians.

VI: 9 The Grey Havens

Widow Rumble

[Elanor Gamgee]

[Frodo Gamgee]

[Rosie Gamgee]

[Merry Gamgee]

[Goldilocks Gamgee]

[Pippin Gamgee]

For the first time we get characters in bracket for not being alive yet in the period of the game. Only one of them is actually in the text, Elanor's younger brothers and sisters are just predicted correctly by Frodo.

Setting the appendices aside for later, I'll now move to the Hobbit.

Hobbit Chapter 1, An Unexpected Party

[Belladonna Took]

[Bungo Baggins]

[*Kili] (Sp ally)

[*Fili] (Le ally)

[King Golfimbul]

[*Smaug] (enemy)

[Thrain the Old]

[Azog the Goblin]

I am using the asterisk only for those with dialogue in the main text, we do have words of Azog in the appendices.

Hobbit Chapter 2, Roast Mutton

[*William Huggins] (enemy)

[*Bert] (enemy)

[*Tom] (enemy)

It's curious to me that Trolls would need or use a surname.

William is an extremely common name for stone trolls!

Hobbit Chapter 3, A Short Rest

No new characters named.

This chapter gives the first published description of Elrond, but only "Evil things did not come into that valley" hints at his power. The half-elven Elrond is depicted not as a leader of Elves, nor even as an elf himself:

"The master of the house was an elf-friend.... In those days of our tale there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors, and Elrond, the master of the house was their chief."

From LOTR, the people we know who fit that description are: Elrond, Elrohir, Elladan, Arwen, and all the Dunedain north and south, of which Elrond is *not* the chief. However, Imrahil's elvish blood reminds us that the few known marriages between elf and man is not the entire set. I've always thought "Last Homely House" is on odd description. Surely Elrond's ring-assisted dwelling is not homely?

Elrond himself is described in polyglot fashion: "He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."

Elrond "hated dragons and their cruel wickedness, and he grieved to remember the ruin of the town of Dale, and its merry bells, and the burned banks of the bright River Running." This implies that Elrond personally saw Dale in its heyday and also its site shortly after ruin. Dale's glory days were relatively short and confined to the rule of Thror in Erebor. I don't think of Elrond as a traveller, rather someone who stayed in Imladris/Rivendell for all the long years of the third age after Sauron's fall. But evidently it was not so. Perhaps Elrond travelling all around middle earth, averting numerous plots with Vilya's help is not so unthematic after all.

I rather expect that Tolkien was not using the American sense of the word (which itself is passing out of fashion), meaning ugly or unattractive.

Rather, I expect he used it to mean exactly what the word looks like (which is apparently how it is still used in British English). Having the qualities of a home. Comfortable, welcoming, safe, etc.