![]() ![]() They were just in time, for Sauron's most powerful servants, the Nine Nazgûl, had entered the Shire as Black Riders, looking for the Ring. He left with three companions: his gardener Samwise Gamgee and his cousins Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took. Realizing that he was a danger to the Shire as long as he remained there, Frodo decided to take the Ring to Rivendell, home of Elrond, a mighty Elf-lord. Gandalf returned to tell him that it was the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, who was seeking to recover and use it to conquer Middle-earth. ![]() Frodo kept it hidden for the next seventeen years, and it gave him the same longevity it had given Bilbo. Gandalf, uncertain about the origin of the ring, warned Frodo to avoid using it and to keep it secret. Frodo inherited Bag End and Bilbo's ring. The Fellowship of the Ring įrodo came of age as Bilbo left the Shire. Bilbo introduced Frodo to the Elvish languages, and they often went on long walking trips together. He and Bilbo shared the same birthday, the 22nd of September. At the age of twenty-one he was adopted by Bilbo, who brought him to live at his home, Bag End. Frodo's parents Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck had been killed in a boating accident when Frodo was twelve Frodo spent the next nine years living with his maternal family, the Brandybucks in Brandy Hall. Background įrodo is introduced in The Lord of the Rings as Bilbo Baggins's cousin and adoptive heir. Frodo lived at Bag End, in Hobbiton, near the centre of the map. Internal history Sketch map of the Shire. Commentators have written that he combines courage, selflessness, and fidelity, and that as a good character, he seems unexciting but grows through his quest, an unheroic person who reaches heroic stature. On his return to the Shire, he is unable to settle back into ordinary life two years after the Ring's destruction, he is allowed to take ship to the earthly paradise of Valinor.įrodo's name comes from the Old English name Fróda, meaning "wise by experience". He changes, too, growing in understanding and compassion, and avoiding violence. He is mentioned in Tolkien's posthumously published works, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.įrodo is repeatedly wounded during the quest, and becomes increasingly burdened by the Ring as it nears Mordor. Frodo is a hobbit of the Shire who inherits the One Ring from his cousin Bilbo Baggins, described familiarly as "uncle", and undertakes the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor. Tolkien's writings, and one of the protagonists in The Lord of the Rings. He's trying to trick us! We let him go, he'll throttle us in our sleep.Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. I told you he was tricksy, I told you he was false.įilthy little hobbitses! They stole it from us! We'll be nice to them, if they be nice to us. It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just tie him up and leave him. There is no promise you can make that I can trust. It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just just tie him up and leave him. You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you? They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead. Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk.Ĭold be heart and hand and bone. Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength. And then we takes it once they're dead.Ĭome on Hobbits. Where is he? Where has he gone? Hey, Gollum! Where are you? and we be the master!īut the fat Hobbit, he knows. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! SMEAGOL IS FREE! ![]() *I* saved us! It was me! *We* survived because of *me*! Where would you be without me, uh? gollum, gollum. You don't have any friends nobody likes you! Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, LIE. ![]()
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