I don't know if any of you have ever run into this, but way back in 2010 a certain 'Dân o Nandor on Anduin' started a list of all 1200 named characters in Middle-earth, in reverse order of their prominence in the Legendarium. The list was rolled out on several websites (TheOneRing.net and The Hall of Fire are the ones I know of); it stalled out somewhere in the middle for a couple of years; but at long last, it is finished.

Right here, you can read about all 1205 characters in the Legendarium, objectively ordered by how often they've been written about (plus a few other factors; see here for a brief description of how the ranking is determined).

My favourite character chimes in at #1179, of course. ^_^

hS