LUDO DOWN!
Ludo is the embodification of gentle giant. Our first glimpse of him is his ferocious bellowing, which scares away Hoggle. Expecting a vicious animal, we first meet him in a doubly-submissive form – upside down and being nibbled by beasts on sticks.
For whatever reason, Ludo can control the rocks with his voice (“Sure, rocks friends”). I don’t know what’s up with that. Ludo is an anagram for loud, so I guess that’s something.
Ludo speaks in a simplistic, childlike way: “Sarah friend” “Ludo down” etc.
Despite being cute as all heck, Ludo unfortunately lacks the detailed characterization of the other puppets. But he does get a lot of mileage out of his supermobile eyebows.
Ludo seems like a big dog, more so than Sir Didymus and Ambrosius even.
#1 by JarethFan on November 10, 2010 - 8:48 pm
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It’s funny how they succeeded in making Ludo so cute and dog-like, but failed in making the actual dogs (Didymus and Ambrosius) particularly likeable. Also, Ludo calls the rocks and is actually useful and genuinely helpful instead of shifty (Hoggle) or just irritating (Didymus again).
#2 by Ameera on February 11, 2011 - 4:56 pm
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ludo is so cute !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#3 by sierra on March 26, 2011 - 4:03 pm
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ludo! Ludo is my favorite character! I love sara to
#4 by The Goblin Queen on April 23, 2011 - 10:28 am
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Ludo! The gentle giant of this tale! He has to be my favorite character (after Jareth, of course!). Although this movie could go without him, it wouldn’t have the same touching quality.
#5 by Denis on June 30, 2011 - 1:08 pm
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Incidentally, the name Ludo is Latin for “fool”.
#6 by splurge on August 17, 2011 - 3:15 am
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how can he summon rocks when he roars?
#7 by Denis on August 17, 2011 - 9:23 pm
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Cause… rocks friends!
#8 by sunelfling on April 17, 2012 - 12:46 pm
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If you look up the Latin word “ludo”, it literally translates to “I play”…
It also means “to deceive”, which, in the character’s case, his looks were deceiving to Sara. He seemed extremely scary to her to begin with, but then once he started “talking” to her, she wasn’t frightened anymore… js
#9 by ludoo ' on May 1, 2012 - 2:38 pm
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ludoo is amazing hes so cutee >.<
#10 by taylor on December 20, 2014 - 9:53 pm
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I love this character he is so great he kind sweet gentle he should be in more movie he brings joy and laghter and a exsample to children to be kind and sweet and generous a book needs to be written not just the labrith but how the lybryth came to be and the story behind the charecters you should make the 2nd lybrit.
#11 by Cemeke PIRKETOU on January 15, 2017 - 6:58 am
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Ludo speaks in a simplistic way like the giant in the 1935 movie “Bride of Frankenstein”.
Ludo calling the rocks is like creative sexual energy roar of rut (to be rutting)
(Jareth is the the emotional because Sarah is in love with him, Sir Didimus is the intellect with its precious language, and Hoggle is the corporeal, because it likes the external signs, the jewels, and he fiercely defends his independence, as the ego : NO! HOGGLE AIN’T NO ONE’S FRIEND HE LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF, LIKE EVERYONE. HOGGLE IS HOGGLE’S FRIEND.)