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Today's Date in the Shire 29 Thrimidge Middle-Earth Quotes Support the Downs The Books Middle-earth FAQ Encyclopedia The Books Book List Articles Tengwar Scriptor Chronology Talking Tolkien Name Generators All-in-One Fun and Games Middle-earth Magnets Personality Test Gaffer's Proverbs Crosswords Grave Matters Quizzes Walk to Rivendell Location Finder Trivia -- Mad Libs Malbeth the Seer LotF Barrow-Comics Hanghobbit Oh! Behave! Past Contests Scavenger Hunt Essay Contest Missing Story T-Shirt Contest Comic Contest Haiku Contest Judges Haikus Discussions Forum Forum Index Chat Frodo Baggins POLL RESULTS Who was your favorite Hobbit? Frodo 93 18% Sam 170 33% Pippin 60 11% Merry 51 10% Bilbo 86 17% Gollum 45 8% TOTAL VOTES: 505 This Poll is Closed Baggins, Frodo Hobbit of the Shire (b. T.A. 22 September 2968 - ?? ). Son of Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck. Cousin and adopted heir of Bilbo Baggins. Member of the Company of the Ring. Bearer of the One Ring. Mayor of Michel Delving. Frodo Baggins, one of the most renowned personalities in the history of Middle-Earth, successfully carried the One Ring of Sauron from Hobbiton in the Shire to Mount Doom in Mordor where he was at last overcome by the power of the Ring but saved from its evil by Gollum who took it from him and inadvertantly destroyed it and himself. Frodo’s efforts resulted in the destruction of Sauron and the establishment of the Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor. Frodo Baggins was the son of Drogo and Primula Baggins. He lived together with his parents in the family home of his mother, Brandy Hall in Buckland, until Drogo and Primula were drowned in a boating accident when Frodo was just 12 years old. The young hobbit was left as an orphan among his Brandybuck relatives. In Buckland, Frodo grew into a fine young hobbit, only occasionally getting into mischief while stealing mushrooms from old Farmer Maggot and once even entering the Old Forest. He had many friends and was especially well-liked by his elder cousin, Bilbo Baggins who was also an orphan. When Frodo was 22 years old, Bilbo invited him to come live with him at Bag End in Hobbiton, adopting him as his heir. By coincidence, the two hobbits shared the same birthday, 22 September, and made it a custom to celebrate each year with a small party. When Bilbo was turning 111 and Frodo 33 (a very important year for hobbits), they threw a huge Party and invited practically everyone they knew. On 22 September 3001, the famous Farewell Party was given, so called because Bilbo disappeared while giving a speech and departed the Shire never to be seen there again. This left Frodo as the master of Bag End. Bilbo also left Frodo a golden ring that made its wearer invisible. Gandalf the wizard, a good friend of the family, suspected that the ring was more than it appeared and kept a watch over Frodo to see if he suffered any ill efect from it. Years passed and Frodo strangely showed no signs of aging. Gandalf remembered that Bilbo had also aged very slowly when he had posessed the ring, and the wizard decided to investigate what power it might possess. He took many years and long journies, but in the Spring of 3018 Gandalf returned to Hobbiton and sat down with Frodo to tell him the true nature of the small item Bilbo had left him The wizard explained that Sauron the Dark Lord had long ago created the One Ring to control the peoples of Middle-Earth. But the Ring had been wrested from him in battle and later lost. It had laid for centuries at the bottom of the Anduin river until it came into the possession of a small creatured named Gollum. Gollum took the Ring and hid himself away deep under the Misty Mountains. After many years, seemingly by accident, Bilbo Baggins found the ring and took it home as a treasure from his journies. Sauron now knew that the Ring had been found again and was looking for it. Gandalf refused it when Frodo offered to allow the wizard to take the Ring for safekeeping. Gandalf did not want to risk the temptation of using the power the Ring possessed. Instead, he recommended that Frodo take the Ring and leave the Shire as soon as possible. To protect the hobbits of his land, Frodo agreed. Gandalf soon left again on important business, leaving Frodo to decide how to quietly leave the Shire. The hobbit invented a ruse of moving back to Buckland, even selling Bag End to the Sackville-Baggins as part of the deception. He waited through the Summer for Gandalf to return but finally decided that he must begin without the wizard. On 23 September 3018, he and two friends, Samwise Gamgee and Peregrin Took, better known as Sam and Pippin, left Bag End on foot hoping to reach Frodo’s new home at Crickhollow in two or three days. While still in the Shire, they were twice overtaken by Black Riders of Sauron who were searching for the Ring. On both occasions Frodo nearly donned the Ring in a panic reaction to the threat of the Riders, but each time he resisted until the Riders departed. Shortly after the scare of the Black Riders they met Gildor, an Elf who was traveling through the Shire with a company of his folk. Gildor invited the hobbits to send the evening with him and his folk . The next morning the three hobbits traveled cross-country in hopes of avoiding the Black Riders, ending up on the property of Farmer Maggot. Frodo was relieved to find that though Maggot recognized him from his mushroom stealing days, the farmer was actually a very friendly person. The old hobbit invited them in for supper and later drove them to the Buckland Ferry where they met another friend, Meriadoc Brandybuck, better known as Merry. At Crickhollow, Frodo’s friends revealed that they knew of the Ring and his intentions to leave the Shire. They would not allow him to leave without them, so the next morning they left before sunrise, entering the Old Forest in hopes that such a short cut would throw off any pursuit. But the Forest proved to be almost as dangerous as the Riders when the hobbits were caught by Old Man Willow. The evil tree threw Frodo into the Withywindle, trying to hold his head beneath the water. They were only rescued by the timely arrival of Tom Bombadil. Bombadil invited them to his home, proving to be a wise but very strange fellow. During their visit, Frodo allowed Tom to examine the Ring. Astonishingly, he did not vanish when he wore it. After Tom returned the Ring to him, Frodo put it on as a test to ensure Tom had returned the same ring he had borrowed. This was the first time that Frodo wore the Ring. After leaving Tom, the hobbits were captured by a barrow-wight on the Barrow-Downs. The spirit entombed them all, apparently seeking to slay them, but Frodo awoke and fought the wight, calling for Tom as he did so. Bombadil appeared and freed them, giving them swords from the treasure of the Barrow. Relieved to still be alive, they rushed on to the nearby town of Bree where Frodo used the alias ‘Underhill’ to disguise his true identity. In the Prancing Pony Inn, Frodo foolishly allowed himself too much excitement (and beer) and accidently slipped the Ring onto his finger in front of a crowd of town locals and visitors. This was the second time he wore the Ring. He retired quickly to his roomwhere he spoke with Strider, a friend of Gandalf’s who offered to guide them to the Elven haven of Rivendell. After Barliman Butterber delivered a letter to Frodo from Gandalf that verified Strider’s identity, he agreed to follow the Ranger. Strider led the hobbits safely to Weathertop where Frodo faced five of the Black Rider that had gathered there. The Riders attacked the hobbit and his companions late in the evening by the light of the moon, and Frodo in a panic once again slipped the Ring on his finger. The Ring allowed him to see clearly into the ghost-realm of the Riders, and their Lord rushed the hobbit, stabbing him in the shoulder with his cursed knife. Frodo dropped into unconsciousness and was saved only by the daring of Strider...