30 Facts About Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in JR R Tolkien's writings, and one of the protagonists in The Lord of the Rings.

Frodo Baggins is mentioned in Tolkien's posthumously published works, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

Frodo Baggins's name comes from the Old English name Froda, meaning "wise by experience".

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.

Frodo Baggins came of age as Bilbo left the Shire for good on his one hundred and eleventh birthday.

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Frodo Baggins kept the Ring hidden for the next seventeen years, and the Ring gave him the same longevity it gave Bilbo.

Frodo Baggins left with three companions: his gardener Samwise Gamgee and his cousins Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took.

Frodo Baggins broke free from the spell, attacked the barrow-wight and summoned Bombadil, who again rescued the hobbits and set them on their way.

At the Prancing Pony inn in the village of Bree, Frodo Baggins received a delayed letter from Gandalf, and met a man calling himself Strider, a Ranger of the North; his real name was Aragorn.

Frodo Baggins, realizing that he was destined for this task, stepped forward to be the Ring-bearer.

In Moria Frodo Baggins was stabbed by an Orc-spear, but his coat of mithril armour saved his life.

Frodo Baggins escaped by putting on the Ring and becoming invisible.

Frodo Baggins chose to continue the quest alone, but Sam followed his master, joining him on the journey to Mordor.

Frodo Baggins took pity on Gollum and spared his life, binding him to a promise to guide them through the dead marshes to the Black Gate.

Frodo Baggins allowed Gollum to be captured by Faramir, saving Gollum's life but leaving him feeling betrayed by his "master".

Shelob stung Frodo Baggins, rendering him unconscious, but Sam drove her off with Sting and the Phial of Galadriel.

The Orcs took Frodo Baggins for questioning; Sam tried to follow but found the door locked against him.

Frodo Baggins descends into despair and near-madness, eventually returning to his own country, to find himself utterly alienated from those he once knew.

Frodo Baggins is the only prominent hobbit whose name is not explained in Tolkien's Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.

Frodo Baggins makes the giants work all day long at this task, until they rebel and grind out an army instead, which kills him and takes over, making the giants grind salt until the sea is full of it.

Clearly, Shippey observes, evil is impossible to cure; and Frodo Baggins too is a "peacemaker, indeed in the end a pacifist".

Frodo Baggins lacks Sam's simple sturdiness, Merry and Pippin's clowning, and the psychopathology of Gollum, writes Stanton, bearing out the saying that good is less exciting than evil; but Frodo grows through his quest, becoming "ennobled" by it, to the extent that returning to the Shire feels in Frodo's words "like falling asleep again".

Scholars including Peter Kreeft, Paul E Kerry, and Joseph Pearce state that there is no one complete, concrete, visible Christ figure in The Lord of the Rings, but Frodo serves as the priestly aspect of Christ, alongside Gandalf as prophet and Aragorn as King, together making up the threefold office of the Messiah.

Chance writes that Frodo Baggins grows from seeing the threat as external, such as from the Black Riders, to internal, whether within the Fellowship, as shown by Boromir's attempt on the Ring, or within himself, as he struggles against the controlling power of the Ring.

Tolkien critic Paul H Kocher discusses the role of providence, in the form of the intentions of the angel-like Valar or of the creator Eru Iluvatar, in Bilbo's finding of the Ring and Frodo's bearing of it; as Gandalf says, Frodo was "meant" to have it, though it remains his choice to co-operate with this purpose.

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Frodo Baggins appears in adaptations of The Lord of the Rings for radio, cinema, and stage.

In Leningrad Television's two-part 1991 teleplay Khraniteli, Frodo Baggins was played by Valery Dyachenko, while in the Finnish broadcaster Yle's 1993 television miniseries Hobitit, the role is played by Taneli Makela.

The film critic Roger Ebert writes that he missed the depth of characterisation he felt in the book, Frodo Baggins doing little but watching other characters decide his fate "and occasionally gazing significantly upon the Ring".

On stage, Frodo Baggins was portrayed by James Loye in the three-hour stage production of The Lord of the Rings, which opened in Toronto in 2006, and was brought to London in 2007.

Frodo Baggins was portrayed by Joe Sofranko in the Cincinnati productions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King for Clear Stage Cincinnati.