Radagast Did Nothing Wrong

Silmarillion

Luthien: 1 (Beren)

Nienor: 1 (Turin)

Hobbit

No kissies :/

LotR

Aragorn: 5 = 2 (Eowyn) + Arwen (1) + 1 (Boromir) + 1 (Merry)

Sam: 4.5 =  4.5 (Frodo - counting 0.5 because it says he “did not kiss” his hand, which feels weird to ignore or to count, so half a point it is)

Faramir: 4 = 2 (Eowyn) + 1 (Frodo) + 1 (Sam)

Merry: 4 = 2 (Theoden) + 1 (Aragorn) + 1 (Eowyn)

Frodo: 3 = 1 (Merry) + 1 (Pippin) + 1 (Sam) << these all happen in the same scene

Beregond: 1 (Aragorn)

So we have a total of 23.5 kisses, only 5 of which happen between people who are romantically involved, so you can totally go ahead and assume platonic kisses are very much a thing in Arda

Also another fun breakdown:

Hand: 9.5 (Sam → Frodo x2.5, Merry → Theoden x2, Merry → Aragorn, Merry → Eowyn, Aragorn → Eowyn, Aragorn → Arwen, Beregond → Aragorn)

Brow/forehead: 8 (Sam → Frodo x2, Aragorn → Boromir, Aragorn → Eowyn, Aragorn → Merry, Faramir → Eowyn, Faramir → Frodo, Faramir → Sam)

Is he so terrified that some harm will come to the Ring that he’s desperate to please Frodo but doesn’t know how and his best guess is pitiful and weird?

being the predominant factor

I never got the sense that Gollum was able to convincingly fake strong emotion (or suppress it to much of a degree, either, because he frequently has flashes of anger that he would surely know aren’t helping his cause). And I also got an impression that he’s not really a very confident liar, no matter how much he lies anyway- because there are times where the ‘right’ answer to a question is obvious but he just won’t answer. He just won’t answer when asked ‘Is Cirith Ungol guarded?’ even though it’s quite suspicious that he doesn’t just say ‘no’ or even ‘yes but I can get you past the guards’ or- anything? He just sits there and does ㄟ( ▔, ▔ )ㄏ until he’s badgered into going ‘PROOOOBABLYYY… Mordor is dangerous and all… mAAAaaaAaaaAybe its guarded’ Instead of saying ‘well there isn’t a big spider there or anything hahahhaha’ So he probably can’t sell that lie and he probably knows he can’t sell it. 

Also I think he does desire socialization to some extent. If you look at riddles in the dark, while bilbo does have a sword, there’s really no reason for gollum to address that issue by chatting with him and starting up a riddle-game instead of immediately going to get the Ring, which he thinks he still has at that point. 

Also of note! Gollum clearly had real Emotions™ about having the elf rope taken off because later he’s talking to himself about that when he thinks no one is observing him (and therefore he has no reason to be dishonest). Some of this awkward display is probably from relief! (Consider: Aragorn recently drove him quite a ways while tied on a rope, presumably he did not take the rope off when gollum complained, although i’m certain he did complain)

Is he reenacting how he was taught to act in Mordor?

I WISH i knew enough about what happened to him there to answer that 

TL;DR who knows! but it’s super funny that sam is just watching him and going ‘Yuck. Disapprove’

Gollum hot take: I don’t think the character as written in the books has a sharply delineated jekyll & hyde thing going on. 

Gollum's the biggest example, of course--he's so repellant but also so pitiable and you SEE that he still has the road to goodness open, but he doesn't QUITE take it, but he COULD, and you WANT him to. But it's true of everyone here.

Grima is offered like five second chances at various points, but he keeps going back to Saruman because that's what he knows and it is, in a twisted way, easier even when it makes him miserable. Saruman is asked by Gandalf to return to them, and it's a genuine offer of reconciliation, and we feel the tragedy when he wavers and then rejects it. Denethor is also given a path back to the light by Gandalf, who tells him he can do his duty by leading his people and dying in battle against the Darkness--and, again, although he refuses, we can imagine him accepting and regaining his honor.

And to accentuate this, we see people who fall and ARE redeemed! Boromir falls to the Ring, and attacks Frodo--but he repents, rejects what he has done, and takes up the right task set before him even though it kills him. Theoden is corrupted by Grima, and spurns Gandalf and the rest--but then he listens to Gandalf, takes up his duties as ruler, and goes to lead his people even though he expects to die doing it.

Sauron is not given this choice in LotR itself; however, I'm pretty sure he was given it at the end of the First Age, when his boss Morgoth had just been defeated by the rest of the Powers. Sauron asked for mercy, and was given a chance for it, but he had to submit himself to his unfallen brethren first for formal judgement. That was too hard for him, so he stayed in Middle-Earth and doubled down on being evil instead. By the time we see him in LotR, he's spent two Ages being evil and is an active threat to all of Middle-Earth; there's no discussion of trying to reason with him.

...It's also worth noting, now that I think of it, that the good guys in LotR do NOT offer the guilty mercy at the expense of the innocent. Denethor, Saruman, Grima and Gollum are all asked to HELP the people they've hurt, and there's no idea of them being left in a position of power that they're abusing; the closest we get is Gandalf and Frodo letting Saruman free, at different times, but in neither case is he an active threat to anyone (as far as they know).

This is also shown in the fact that they do not offer mercy to enemy combatants unless they've surrended--it is, after all, a war. This is presumably the reason we also never see mercy offered to Orcs, the Nazgul, or the Balrog, none of whom ever show any hesitancy in going for their enemies' throats.

Okay two things about this

1) "Our whole life for months has been one long meddling in the affairs of Wizards" is a very funny and accurate line

“In my own land, in the country of Fangorn, Where the roots are long, And the years lie thicker than the leaves”