/lit/ - Literature

Who do you think is the most useless character in Fantasy? My choice is Ghân-buri-Ghân. His whole purpose is to give Theoden directions. That's fucking it. They are so irrelevant to the damn story that when the war ends (Which by the way the Drúedain don't even participate in), that Elessar basically says "Nobody goes into their forest without express permission by the Drúedain". But because nobody actually bothered to give a shit about them, they never showed up ever again. Tolkien writes that they drifted away into myth and legend because they were that inessential to anything else in Middle Earth. Why Tolkien thought this was needed is beyond me.