Bilbo Baggins. Ian Holm was my first glimpse of him (I think) and I read The Hobbit fairly young and I loved it. I was urged to do this by my older siblings, but the Hobbit was sort of like "my book" while LOTR was what they really loved. Hobbit was missing in our house for a while and my sibling tried to get me just to read "Fellowship" first. But I refused and I'm very glad that I did. :D