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Frodo Baggins (Westron: Maura Labingi) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings and one of the protagonists in The Lord of the Rings. 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 .
Both Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins leave Bag End, their comfortable home, setting off into the unknown on their journeys, and returning changed.. Scholars, including psychoanalysts, have commented that J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories about both Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of The Hobbit, and Frodo Baggins, protagonist of The Lord of the Rings, constitute psychological journeys.
Characters as diverse as Denethor, Théoden, Beorn, Gollum, and Frodo have been seen as possibly exemplifying conditions including paranoia, bipolar depression, schizoid personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative amnesia. Tolkien's depiction of Frodo's mental suffering may derive from his own wartime experience.
The Lord of the Rings describes the hobbit Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the Ring and save Middle-earth. Scholars have compared the story with the ring-based plot of Richard Wagner 's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ; Tolkien denied any connection, but at the least, both men drew on the same mythology.
The house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton as filmed in New Zealand. The protagonists of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, lived at Bag End, [d] a luxurious smial or hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in the Westfarthing. It was the most comfortable hobbit ...
Accordingly, Tolkien's decision to include the Baggins and other hobbit family trees in Lord of the Rings [T 25] gives the book, in Fisher's view, a strongly "hobbitish perspective". [15] The tree also, he notes, serves to show Bilbo's and Frodo's connections and familial characteristics, including that Bilbo was both "a Baggins and a Took". [15]
Merry learned of the One Ring and its power of invisibility before Bilbo Baggins left the Shire. He guarded Bag End after Bilbo's party, protecting Frodo from unwanted guests. [T 3] Merry was a force behind "the Conspiracy" of Sam, Pippin, Fredegar Bolger and himself to help Frodo. [T 2] He assembled the company's packs and brought ponies.
Frodo Lives!" was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to the character Frodo Baggins from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, commonly associated with the hippie movement. The phrase was used frequently in graffiti, buttons, bumper-stickers, T-shirts, and other materials.