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Sam did defeat Shelob:
"Sam came on. He was reeling like a drunken man, but he came on. And Shelob cowed at last, shrunken in defeat, jerked and quivered as she tried to hasten from him. She reached the hole, and squeezing down, leaving a trail of green-yellow slime, she slipped in, even as Sam hewed a last stroke at her dragging legs. Then he fell to the ground.
Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell."
—The Two Towers
Slaying a couple of orcs is still combat. Maybe not hard to do, but not everyone tried to do it. That sets him apart.
He had to avoid several parties of orcs that were heading to the Black Gate. This required some smidgen of stealth ability. Granted, he and Frodo had the benefit of the Elven cloaks, but these were not totally fool proof.
At a minimum, I would say Sam was a halfling fighter with the following stats:
10 Strength
12 Dexterity
14 Constitution
9 Intelligence
14 Wisdom
10 Charisma
Not overly powerful, but how many halflings willingly up and left the Shire? Sam, Pippen, Merry, and Frodo were all exceptional specimens as halflings go. In D&D, PC's are a cut above average.
Aragorn is absolutely, 100% a Ranger. Not only is he called the Ranger in the books, but the Ranger class in D&D was entirely modeled on him (minus the spells, which Rangers did not always have).
Absolutely not a Fighter.
All of the hobbits are level 0 and classless. They may have proficiency in a couple of skills, but none of them have a level in any class.
I'd probably make my Aragorn a fighter/cleric especially given the focus on his healing ability in ROTK
And what about the end of the story when the Hobbits return to the Shire and lead the fight to oust Saruman, Grima Wormtongue, and their henchmen? It was obvious their journey had given them the experience and ability to defeat a group of enemies that had enslaved the rest of Hobbiton.
They may have left home as 0 Class characters, but they returned home as heroes. I still believe they were fighters. Pippen may even have been a Bard due to his exceptional singing voice, as depicted both in the books and in film.
I will die on this hill defending the Hobbits, after all, the people of Gondor didn't kneel to a group of do-nothing, nobodies.
That's even more ridiculous.
Why is Frodo a Warlock? Oh, because he carries the One Ring? He derives no power from it, casts no spells, and has no Invocations. At best, he can become invisible by wearing it, but then so can anyone else. He has made no bargain/pact with it, and his entire quest is to destroy it. He's not a Warlock.
Sam is a cleric? Firstly, there's no evidence in LOTR for any kind of clergy. They have a God, and the closest you'll find to "clerics" are actually the elves, who are the most closely related to the Valar, but even then it's quite a stretch to call them clerics. Furthermore, he casts no spells, turns no undead, and never offers any prayers, not even to the one God that Middle Earth actually has. He's not a cleric.
Merry and Pippin fighters? Eh, sure, I mean...you can say they fight. At some point, all of the hobbits get into a scrap out of necessity. They even get a couple of kills. But I still can't compare them to Gimli or Legolas or Boromir in terms of fighting prowess. They spend most of the time needing to be either protected or rescued, and it seems the few kills they do get are mostly luck and circumstantial (i.e., natural 20's). I still find it hard to call any of them fighters, or even rogues for that matter (with the exception of Bilbo in The Hobbit, and only because he was literally pointed out as a 'burglar', although that was more Gandalf and the Dwarves projecting upon him than any natural skill he actually possessed).
Hey all I'm doing is mapping the abilities we've seen to a potential D&D class. Frodo did wield a sword and light armor and he was bound to a dark soul via the ring, so hexblade warlock is not totally crazy. Sam provided inspiration and support, so a cleric might be reasonable. No attempt by me to reconcile the mythologies of the two settings.
If we expand the range a bit I'd say Galadriel was a sorcerer rather than a wizard due to the innate nature of her abilities (of most elves, actually, for which "magic" was a strange concept), and though you could make the same claim about Gandalf it's referenced more than once in the books about his studiousness and memorization of "spells".
Gandalf is a Wizard because he's also literally referred to as a Wizard (also calls himself one), but it's worth pointing out that he's actually a Maiar, and the Maiar are akin to 'angels' in Judeo-Christian religions (as are, to some extent, the Valar). Minor angel, perhaps. That's why he gets to be an Aasimar Wizard.
Galadriel also exhibits almost no power whatsoever, beyond her magic pool/mirror and the brief freak out she has when offered the ring. Elves, setting aside their fighting prowess and preternatural speed and strength, are often simply portrayed as having a really deep and old knowledge of the world's lore and history, thus they understand how powerful magical artifacts work - but you never see them cast any "spells". Not even once. They don't "do" magic, they simply understand and know magic for what it is and they recognize it when they see it. They are also known as craftsmen that rival the dwarves, so perhaps Artificer is even more appropriate (for some, such as Celebrembor). They even helped craft the Rings of Power.
She 'freaks out' because she was once a ring bearer and has power enough that when combined with the ring it would make her potentially more powerful than Sauron and thus more of a danger to the world and she already knows she can be tempted and corrupted by it.
I assume you are making a parallel between casting spells as magic and magical abilities as magic. Galadriel had several magical talents including telepathy, divination, shielding her mind, etc (traits that some want to associate with items but they are some of the same traits her brother also shared which makes it more likely an inherent ability). She is said to be the most powerful of the Noldor so I think it would be assumed that she is the embodiment of magic energy within the world (not a spellcaster) and her control of the ring of water at the time made her even more powerful.
The issue is that Tolkien wanted the reader to understand that to elves magic was so natural to them it was like growing something, it was a part of the natural world in which they interacted with the same way as they do nature. So our ideas (human viewpoint) of 'magic' which involves waving hands, chanting, etc. were purposefully avoided.
So when you look at the definition of sorcerer, and connect the dots to Galadriel's bloodline, raw magic, and powers that don't fit the norm of what we know as magic compared to say that of a mage.... It's a fair parallel to make.
I had forgotten about the telepathy part.
Regardless, elves in Middle Earth are nothing like Wizards, Sorcerers, or Warlocks from D&D.
Tolkien mostly portrays the Rings of Power as psychic links to the One Ring, which he used to corrupt the Ringbearers. This didn't work against the Elves (presumably due to their proximity to the Valar and own innate strengths), only sorta worked against the Dwarves, and fully worked against Humans. No other powers, to my knowledge, were ever detailed concerning the Rings of Power or the One Ring (beyond turning it's wearer invisible).
And aside from telepathy, Galadriel never exhibits any other ability. Presumably, Elves are so well versed in the ancient history of the world, they know about ancient artifacts, and they themselves are also capable of forging great weapons too (such as Sting, mithril armor, and other items, including the Rings of Power themselves, although that art was probably lost by the third age along with Celebrembor).
Did they possess some kind of nature magic? One presumes, but their is no direct evidence of this from the books. Much is alluded to, little is shown.
Even Gandalf barely uses any "magic" at all in the books. Compared to a D&D Wizard, Gandalf would still be an apprentice. He fights with sword and staff far more often than "spells", and just like the Elves, his power seems to be derived from knowing a lot of lore (he's the first to even recognize the One Ring, for example).
But that's my point. It isn't shown on purpose. It is suppose to be inferred and understood and more importantly consumed in a way that describes magic as a natural force in the world and for elves to showcase their relationship to magic as natural as breathing. Just because you don't directly see something that has the grandeur of spell magic you have to think beyond that. You have to remember the nature of the Elves themselves and how they came to being.
There is a reason that Gandalf, basically a minor deity, was almost submissive when it came to Galadriel. Galadriel's 'freak outs' were there to give us the consumers of the story the understanding of just how powerful she is, and to be honest I don't think the movies did this real justice other than to show it as she could be intimidating particularly to an audience that only equates power to feats.
What isn't 'shown' is and means everything. Not everything is spelled out and you have to read between the lines. So if the argument is to make a distinction between the magic classes as we know them and LoTR characters, then yes they would be different because magic and power in the two references are perceived differently. But for the purpose of what the OP is trying to accomplish I think it's easy enough to draw lines between them and figure out which LotR characters would fit best with the BG3 classes available.
That's fine, but we're trying to classify Middle Earth races into D&D classes, and that doesn't really work out so well.
I mean, most elfs would be considered either Dex based fighters, or old school rangers (before they got spells and were just a fighter subclass), Gandalf would be an Aasimar Wizard, and Bilbo might be considered a Rogue based on The Hobbit. The Dwarves are all fighters too.
And that's about it. The Elfs aren't Sorcerers, they aren't Warlocks, they aren't Wizards. They aren't clerics. Maybe Druid or Ranger-adjacent, if we really want to read into it heavily, and that's about it.