Favorite and most memorable characters

Well from LOTR I favor Gollum and Gandalf. As for other books:

Margaret Alton Hastur from the Darkover series
Jill, Puddleglum and Lucy in Narnia Chronicles
All characters in The Last Unicorn
Moiraine and Perrin and Min from WOT
Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird
Mara Jade from the Star Wars novels

Memorable characters for me are Peter Pan (because thats the first story I ever remember hearing)and The Little Match Girl. Oh yeah also Quasimodo, The Phantom of the Opera, and Macbeth.

LOTR:Frodo,Gandalf,ALL THE ELVES,Eowyn,Sam.
Silamrillion:Feanor,Meaglin,Eol,Thingol,ALL THE ELVES,The Valar,The Maiar.
Much Ado About Nothing: Beatrice! And ALL THE ELVES! (ooops..wrong story! )
A Middsummer Night's Dream:Helena
Les Miserables:Fantine and EPONINE!
War and Peace:Maria and Andrei Bolkonsky.(Brother and Sister)
Chronicles of Narnia:ASLAN! AND ALL THE BLASTED SONS OF ELVES! (Darn....I did it it again...lol)
Moby Dick: MOBY DICK!THE COOLEST WHALE AROUND!DARN HE'S SO AWESOME!
Wuthering Heights:Heathcliff


That's ALL for now!

Bilbo
Gandalf
Gollum
Sam
Galadriel
Luthien
Scarlet O'Hara
Rhett Butler
Prissy
Mammie
D'Artagnon
Porthos
Aramis
Athos
Sherlock Holmes
Dr. John Watson
Professor Moriarty
Conan the barbarian
Tarzan Lord Greystoke
Captain Nemo
Jekyll/Hyde
Phantom of the Opera
The Raven
Dracula
Frankenstien's Monster
Ebenezer Scrooge
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Black Beauty
Doc Savage
Merlin
King Arthur
Sir Lancelot
Mordred
Morgan la Faye
Guinevere
Sir Gawain
Robin Hood
Little John
Friar Tuck
Alan Adale
The Sheriff of Nottingham
The Count of Monte Cristo

i likesd Simon from the Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy from him being a gangly scullion to a strong high king

Scarlett O'Hara
All LOTR characters
Ayla (from The Clan of the Cave Bear series)
And several of Stephen King's characters


BTW, Iron Parrot, Scarlett O'Hara is not only in one work. There is a very good sequel called Scarlett.

Rhett Butler and Mammy from Gone with the Wind. Liked Ellen and Gerald O'Hara too.
Min and Mat from WOT
Lessa from Dragonriders of Pern.
R.Giskard - Azimov
Owen and Natalie from Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
and Therru, Tenar, and Arren from the Earthsea Cycle. Ursula Leguin

I love ayla too!!!!!!! she is like so cool!!

(Added to from my previous post)
Lady Macbeth and the Three Witches
Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie
Zed from the Sword of Truth books
That robot from The Red Dwarf (I've forgotten his name)
Matthias from Redwall
Black Beauty
Evil Murdock (a gander from a kid's book...one of my favorite characters since I was little)
Rincewind and the faculty of UU from Discworld
Puck and Titania
Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing
Simon from Lord of the Flies
Any character from A Wrinkle in Time
Do those silly corny characters in my German textbook count as characters from literature? If so, Wiebke is my favorite.

I'm trying to think of characters who are really different from any specific "type" or somehow stand out to me. And mostly I get very attached to characters who have to change drastically for the better.

Jean Valjean
Anne Shirley
Gandalf
Hamlet
Marvin (Hitchhiker)
Martin the Warrior
Frodo
Eustace (Narnia)
Pip (Great Expectations)
Frankenstein's monster
Piggy (Lord of the Flies)
Viola (12th night)

hmm...

Lady Catherine de Bourgh (from Pride and Prejudice):

"I am most seriously displeased."

"If I had ever learned, I should be a true proficient."

Nick Bottom:

"Methought I was -- and methought I had -- but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had."

Ebenezer Scrooge:

"There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

There are too many for me to list.

And I think I will throw in Huck Finn, Aragorn, Elrond, Elwing,
Sam, Merry, Pippin, Frodo, Thorin, Smaug, Eowyn, Faramir, Boromir and Denethor,
and Lew Alton from Heritage of Hastur et al., to add to the previous.
Lady Catherine was great! Love her too.

And Simon from Lord of the Flies
and the toaster from...whatever the sequal to Red Dwarf is, I've forgotten the title

From LoTR, Gandalf
Strider
Elrond and loads of others.
Narnia series, Aslan
From Dancers at End of Time storys Lord Jagged of Canaria and the Iron Orchid.
From the Crystal Cave trilogy by Mary Stewart, Merlin.
Jungle Book by Kipling, Bagheera the Panther
Asterix Books, Getafix the druid and Dogmatix.
X Men comics Wolverine and Storm
Thats all I can think of for now.

Menolly from Pern
Portia
Tevye
King Lear

From the Bible, although they are not fictional characters, each one's character is very impressive and memorable to me:
Rebekah
Mary
Abraham
Paul
Joseph son of Jacob
John the beloved
Isaiah
Jesus Christ

And from the Book of Mormon (though I daresay none of you has heard of most of them) :
Alma the younger
Moroni
Mormon
Nephi (1,2, and 3)
Ammon
Jacob
Jesus Christ

Ok... in no particular order

- Raptor Red from Raptor Red
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull from the book of that same name
- Piggy from Lord of the Flies
- Gildrum from Sorcerer's Son

I'll add others when I think about the subject more.

Sophie from Sophie's World

Just finished reading the book...it is one of the best books I have ever read--and believe me, that's saying something!

I loved that book. I'm probably the only person to have read it aged 9...

Sophie (sophie's world)
Marvin
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Rincewind (Discworld)
Captain Carrot (also Discworld)
Vetinari (again, discworld. I love those books.)
The Luggage (manic suitcase from, suprise, discworld)
Merlin (the TH White version)
Robin Wood (TH White, the Sword in the Stone)
Lady Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Adam (Good Omens)
Edmund (Narnia)
Reepicheep
Dumbledore
Snape

To name a few...

I like Gandalf and in other books,

Caspian, Peter, Trufflehunter from Narnia
Christine from the Phantom of the opera
Kardia, Gaal from Tower of Geburah

Teehee, Most guys but oh, well1 ^_^

LOTR-Sam,Frodo,Pippin,Merry,Legolas,Gimli,Aragorn,Ganda lf,Eoywen,Theoden,Bergil,and all the ridiculous hobbits of the Shire
Krondor the Betrayel-
Gorath,James the squire,Locklear,Oywen
The Redwall series-
Mattimeo,Grath Longfletch,Rollo,Dippler,Song,Dannflor,and Veil.
Much ado about nothing-
Beatrice,Benedick,Hero,Cladio(even though he's a jackass I cant forget him even though I want to)Don Pedro,the Watch,and that one crazy dude.
Midsummers night dream-
Titania and Puck
Romeo and Juliet-Romeo,Juliet and the friar
Bible-Moses,David,Peter(who can forget the most large mouthed man in the Bible?),John,Matthew,and Jesus the Messiah the most importent person in the Christians life.
Narnia series-
Aslan(no one forgets a lion easily),Reepicheep(as close as you can get to a valorious Hobbit),Lucy,Mr Tumnus,Caspian,Caspians son,Eustice,That one read dwarf who Lucy and her siblings meet in "Prince Caspian(what in the heck is his name?)Those are a few of my favorite characters but I've got alot more.
Samwise of the shire
Ps oh wait there's my heroine Anna Leonowens who braved the Siamese Kings court to teach his children no one can forget her.

Jack Ryan, John Clark, Mary Pat Foley, Ed Foley, Ding Chavez, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, Dan Murray, Frodo Baggins, Samwise, Andre Marek, Cathy Ryan, Leia Organa Solo, Han Solo, Corran Horn and ths list goes on. I cant remember them all.