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Alfrid Lickspittle is a major antagonist in Sir Peter Jackson's movie adaptations of The Hobbit.
He serves as a major antagonist in both The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies.
He is played by Ryan Gage.
LICKSPITTLE is a man of Lake-town and the assistant, deputy and councilor of the Master of Laketown.
The Hobbit []
Alfrid is only indirectly referred as one of the Masters Counselors but not by name. The character is created for the movies as the films ultimate evil and a true Lickspittle.
Movie adaptations []
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug []
He first appears in this film as the tertiary antagonist. Lickspittle advises the Master of Laketown (the film's secondary antagonist) in matters of diplomacy, trade and the defense of Lake-town. At heart though, he is a power-hungry sycophant, and his counsel could not always be relied upon to serve anyone other than himself.
He treats the citizens like dirt and stops Bard from entering Lake-Town with barrels filled with fish as he is not allowed to fill the barrells. He orders Braga and the guards to throw the fish into the lake, but Bard threatens to tell the citizens that the Master is throwing fish and Lickspittle then orders the guards to stop and angrily allow him to pass.
Later on, Alfrid warns the Master about Bard's rebellious attitude against him, and is ordered to send spies to watch his house. He writes a fabricated excuse to arrest Bard. Later he was distrutful towards Thorin, Bilbo and the other Dwarves but eventually agrees with the greedy Master in welcoming them as friends. However the next day he rudely sends away Oin, Bofur, Fili and Kili, refusing to help them when they tell him that Kili is wounded from an arrow he took to the knee the day before.
Later, Lickspittle helps the guards arrest Bard by tripping him as he was running before the Master knocks him unconscious with a stick to finish him off before imprisoning him.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies []
Later, Smaug attacked Esgaroth for helping the dwarves reach Erebor. The Master tried to escape with his gold, his Lickspittle, Braga and a few guards. However the boat was too slow and full of gold. The Master betrays his ugly Lickspittle and throws him out into the lake and Bard uses his boat to free himself. When Smaug is killed by Bard his dead body falls on the boat, crushing the Master, Braga and the other guards.
Alfrid Lickspittle unfortunately survived and continues to mistreat the people of Lake-town and behaves selfishly. He quickly takes side with Bard after the Master's death. When the Azog's orc army attacks the people of are taking refuge inside the ruins of Dale, Alfrid refuses to join the men of Lake-town battling the orcs and disguises as a woman to hide from the battle. When he is discovered and called a "coward" by the people of Lake-town, he flees after stealing some gold from the people and takes it with him.
He later hides in a catapult attached to a dead Troll, watching as Gandalf confronts another Troll unsuccessfully trying to use his staff's power. However, one of Lickspittle's coins slips off his corset and falls on the catapult lever. The coin acts as counterweight, throwing the gross ugly Lickspittle inside the troll's mouth. Both Alfrid Lickspittle and the troll are asphyxiated, unadvertently saving Gandalf.
Role[]
He appears in "Desolation of Smaug" as the tertiary antagonist, with Master of Laketown as the secondary antagonist, and Smaug as the primary antagonist.
He is SUCH a Lickspittle and looks gross and disgusting with an ugly facial expression and is loathed so much that people wanted to kill him.
His ultimate true name is Lickspittle and Alfrid is just a bonus name to give him some normality.