# Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle — Character guide

> Key figures in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan rules his country less by force than by reputation: porters and askari obey him before they ever see him, and even seasoned adventurers concede they would leave if he asked. He is a guest of no one, yet he extends
- [James Hunter Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/james_hunter_blake.md): Blake is the reasonable half of an expedition gone sour, the man who listens to the porters and takes Tarzan's warnings seriously while his older partner sneers. When the safari splits, every porter chooses Blake's side 
- [Sir James Blake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_james_blake.md): Sir James belongs to the armored world of Nimmr, where lances settle disputes and a knight's name carries the weight of generations. His connection to the younger Blake becomes one of the novel's quiet puzzles, a knot of
- [Fahd Ibn Jad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/fahd_ibn_jad.md): Ibn Jad leads his people through hostile country with the polished manners of a desert noble and the conscience of a scavenger. When Tarzan becomes an obstacle to his plans, the sheik does not challenge him openly but wh
- [Sir Malud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_malud.md): Sir Malud belongs to the old code of Nimmr, where a knight's honor is measured in lances broken and challenges answered. He finds Tarzan's methods questionable yet cannot deny their magnificence, and that tension — betwe
- [Nasrany Stimbol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/nasrany_stimbol.md): Stimbol treats the jungle as a private game reserve and its people as servants, and Tarzan's quiet dismantling of that assumption leaves him stripped of porters, dignity, and control. He marches out of the country sweari
- [Zeyd Ibn Jad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/zeyd_ibn_jad.md): Zeyd moves through the Beduin menzil as the sheik's son, yet his heart belongs to Ateja, whom Ibn Jad means to give to the mistrusted Fahd. He whispers treason with her in the shadows, naming Tollog's treachery before th
- [Wilbur Stimbol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/wilbur_stimbol.md): Stimbol arrives in Tarzan's country expecting his money and citizenship to bend the world to his convenience, hunting where he pleases and sneering at the ape-man's authority. When Tarzan strips him of his safari and sen
- [Ateja Ibn Jad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/ateja_ibn_jad.md): Ateja stands at the center of the menzil's quiet war, loved by Zeyd and promised by politics to Fahd, whose loyalty she doubts as fiercely as she doubts Tollog's. She reads the camp's treacheries with a coolness her elde
- [Tollog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/tollog.md): Tollog is the sheik's right arm and next of blood, entrusted with the quiet murder of the captive Nasrany and the careful lies that must follow it. He moves through the sleeping menzil with a discretion he boasts of, and
- [Sir Richard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_richard.md): Sir Richard rides among the armored warriors whose feuds and tourneys define the hidden valley, a man of honor measuring himself against a stranger who fights like no knight he has ever seen. He questions the ethics of T
- [Fejjuan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/fejjuan.md): A Beduin warrior loyal to Ibn Jad.
- [Prince Gobred](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/prince_gobred.md): Gobred rules the City of Nimmr and its feud with the Knights of the Sepulcher, a conflict of lances, banners, and fanatical courage that swallows Tarzan the moment he enters the valley. His world is one of ritualized vio
- [King Bohun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/king_bohun.md): The king who presides over the great tourney in Nimmr.
- [Toyat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/toyat.md): A tribe of apes that Tarzan encounters.
- [Bolgani](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/bolgani.md): A powerful gorilla that Tarzan fights.
- [Tantor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/tantor.md): The wise old elephant, a friend to Tarzan.
- [Batando](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/batando.md): A native warrior or chief encountered in the jungle.
- [Sir Wildred](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_wildred.md): A knight of Nimmr who appears in the later chapters.
- [Edward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/edward.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or companion.
- [Sir Guy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_guy.md): A knight of the Sepulcher who joins the crusade in Nimmr.
- [Sheykh Ibn Jad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sheykh_ibn_jad.md): The patriarch of the Ibn Jad clan, a powerful Beduin leader.
- [Sir Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/sir_bertram.md): A knight of Nimmr who appears in the tourney.
- [Princess Guinalda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/princess_guinalda.md): Guinalda belongs to a crusader-descended city sealed in the Valley of the Sepulcher, where she is royalty and, to a wandering American, the whole point of coming back alive. Her heart is fixed on Blake, and she makes no 
- [Michel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/michel.md): A Frenchman or guide encountered in the story.
- [Manu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tarzan_lord_of_the_jungle_se/characters/manu.md): The monkey, a minor jungle creature.

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