LOTR: Are Alfrid And Wormtongue Related?
There are lots of links between The Hobbit films and the Lord of the Rings films, because The Hobbit took place exactly 60 years before the fellowship's quest, and therefore feeds into the events that came after it. The audience can of course see Bilbo as an older hobbit, about to celebrate his 111th birthday when the ring passes down to his heir Frodo, and then there’s Legolas, the woodland elf of Mirkwood who becomes one of the fellowship that set out from Rivendell to take the ring to mount doom and destroy it.
But for all the obvious crossovers and links between the two sets of films, fans have come up with a surprising theory that is not well known. There are two characters in The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings who are very similar. They show a lot of the same personality traits: lust and desire, clinging to those of greater power, putting self-preservation above all else, and portraying themselves to the masses as a good person, with valiant intentions, whilst skulking around in the shadows and stabbing people in the back to suit their own purpose.
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These two characters even look similar, with dank black hair that stick greasily to their foreheads, yellowing teeth, and a macabre dark dress code that only highlights their pale, sallow skin. The two characters in context are of course Alfrid, the Master of Lake Town’s servant, and Wormtongue, the servant of King Theoden who later switches allegiance to follow in the footsteps of the wizard Saruman.
Some fans have come up with the theory that these two characters may be related. In some ways, this is plausible, because the films are set 60 years apart, so Alfrid could in theory be Grima Wormtongue’s father, or even a
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