A Hobbit's Tale

Frodo lived with his Uncle Bilbo Baggins in Bag End.

When he was 12 years old (in 2980), his parents, Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck, died because of an accident. They went out boating on the Brandywine River and the boat sunk. After their death, Bilbo adopted Frodo. He said at that time that he and Frodo could celebrate their birthday together, which was on the 22th. September. From this day on, they gave a big party each year.

It all began with one of these big parties. It was Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, which was a very respectable age for a hobbit (The old Took himself only reached 130). But for Frodo this day was even more important. He was going to be thirty-three. That means that it was the day of his "coming of age". And that, of course, had to be celebrated with a party of special magnificence. At that party Bilbo left the Shire never to return and Frodo became the new master of Bag End.

However, Frodo and Bilbo were very similar. Like Bilbo, Frodo spoke with the Elves from time to time. Therefore all other hobbits in Hobbiton were convinced that he was as strange as Bilbo himself. But even if he loved listening to Bilbo when he spoke about his adventures, and even if he wanted to live his own adventure one day, he didn't really want to leave the Shire when Gandalf told him about the One Ring. But he realized that he and the Shire itself were no longer safe, that he must bring the One Ring out of the Shire. Therefore, on 23 September 3018, he and his best friends Samwise Gamgee and Peregrine Took left to Bree (in Peter Jackson's movie he left only with Sam). To cover his departure he sold Bag End to the Sackville Baginses and pretended that he would move to his relatives in Buckland. In Bree he and the other Hobbits (on their journey they had met Merry Brandybuck who joined them) they met Strider and where lead by him to Rivendell. There the Fellowship of the Ring was built. Together with eight companions, Frodo went on his way to Mordor. After the battle at Parth Galen and the breaking of the Fellowship he and Sam went on alone. On their way to Mordor they met Gollum and where lead by him through the Emyn Muil to the borders of Mordo. They had to fight against Shelob and after Frodo had almost died, he and Sam reached the Cracks of Doom. There Frodo was not able to throw the Ring into the fire, the influence of the Ring had grown too strong. But Gollum had followed them to the cracks. He wanted to have the Ring for himself and in a fight with Frodo he bit off Frodo's finger with the Ring on it, and fell with it into the Cracks of Doom.

That way the One Ring was destroyed.

Frodo returned to the Shire and lived there for many years. But all his lifetime he still suffered from the wound he got on the Weathertop. In the year 3021 he sailed into the West and left Middle-Earth, together with the other Ring Bearers.

Frodo is performed by Elijah Wood in Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings.

"Frodo is a very curious adventurer. Frodo lives in a time when most of his fellow hobbits want to stay with their own kind, but Frodo is very different in that he wants to leave and see the rest of the world and all its wonders."

"He became alive for me. The way we shot the movie, everything was so authentic that we all believed that Frodo and the others really existed in history. Once I had on my prosthetic ears and feet for the first time, I knew what it was to feel like a Hobbit. It sounds bizarre, but it felt the same as playing a historical character, as if Hobbits had actually once been alive."

Elijah Wood