My two go-to examples of Georg Lukács' "mediocre hero": Bilbo Baggins and Norman Mailer
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I'm not a Dune guy but isn't he royalty? According to Lukács' definition it needs to be someone off to the side of history, who is affected by it but not a key player
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Kind of royalty -- his mom is consort, not queen, but more importantly he's the subject of historical forces the way a common person would be (which is one of the points of the books).
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