Really? have you not read the books or just have yo not paid attention? he's called the Lord of the Rings because with one ring he can control all 19. 9 were given to men who fell and became the Ringwraiths directly under his control, dwarves where given 7 but they being hardier did not succumb so easily to his power…

Dude, have you read the books at all?

Me either, it's the whole point of the entire work.

To me, what makes the LoTR trilogy great is the denouement. After everything they had gone through, the Hobbits came home to rest but still had one more battle to deal with. Absolutely brilliant and absolutely missing from just about every other sci-fi/fantasy novel I've ever read.

You left out Peregrin "Pip" Took, in my humble opinion one of the most important characters in the story. At the end he fights off ruffians: