The elf was dubbed " Figwit " by Tolkien fan Iris Hadad ; after seeing Frodo agree to take the ring, saying " I will take it ", the film switches to a shot where Figwit can be seen standing on the far right, and Hadad's initial reaction was " Frodo is grea ... who is THAT ?!?

Coming to his senses, Bilbo admitted that the Ring had been troubling him, and leaving it behind for Frodo, he departed for Rivendell.

He told Frodo the full history of the Ring, and urged him to take the Ring to Rivendell ; for he would be in grave danger if he stayed in the Shire.

Gandalf said he would attempt to return for Frodo's fiftieth birthday party, in order to accompany him on the road thereafter ; and that meanwhile Frodo should arrange to leave quietly, as the servants of Sauron would be searching for him.

Similarly, as Frodo nears Mount Doom he casts aside weapons and refuses to fight others with physical force: " For him struggles for the right must hereafter be waged only on the moral plane.

" Also, Galadriel told Frodo, " You saw the Eye of him that holds the Seven and the Nine.

In (), Bilbo, a lifelong bachelor, adopted Frodo, the orphaned son of his first cousin Primula Brandybuck and his second cousin Drogo Baggins, and made him his heir.

As Bilbo prepares finally to leave the house, he reacts with panic and suspicion when Gandalf tries to persuade him to leave the Ring with Frodo.

When Frodo and the other Hobbits stopped in Rivendell on their quest to destroy the Ring, Bilbo was still alive but now visibly aged, the years having caught up with him after he surrendered the Ring.

After seeing that Frodo was unconvinced, Boromir commanded him to lend the Ring to him.

When his hubris eventually leads him into attacking Frodo to seize the Ring, Boromir seals his own doom by giving in to the malign power of the Ring.

He rescued Frodo ( who had only been paralysed ) from the Orcs who held him captive.

Sam often showed a skill in poetry, one occasion being when in Lothlórien after Gandalf fell to his apparent death, Sam added to the poem that Frodo had made about him.

When Saruman was overthrown by a hobbit rebellion and ordered to leave, Frodo Baggins implored Gríma not to follow him, and even offered him food and shelter.

When Pippin touched the stone, without intent to spy, Sauron, looking the other way with voyeuristic intent thought he saw the hobbit who had the One Ring, misdirecting him from the true infiltration of Frodo, then hundreds of miles away.

Using the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir of Isildur to Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo.

Gandalf's rebuke of Frodo for wishing death upon Gollum in The Fellowship of the Ring is obliquely attributed in The Silmarillion to Gandalf's having been a disciple of Nienna in Valinor ( Chapter 2, " Valaquenta "): " Wisest of the Maiar was Olórin ... is ways took him often to the house of Nienna, and of her he learned pity and patience.

Aragorn understood from him also that Gandalf was missing, that Frodo had left the Shire without Gandalf, that Black Riders were trailing Frodo, and that Frodo had not been seen leaving Buckland.

She plays his onscreen daughter, Elanor Gamgee, that runs out to him as he returns from saying goodbye to Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf.

In Peter Jackson's film version, Frodo attempts to reach out and touch the face of one of the corpses ; he falls into the water and the spirit of a dead Elf-king tries to drag him down.

Aragorn and Gandalf then led the final campaign against Sauron's forces at the Black Gate, in an effort to distract the Dark Lord's attention from Frodo and Samwise Gamgee, who were at the same moment scaling Mount Doom to destroy the Ring.

The novel The Lord of the Rings includes more Hobbits as major characters, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, as well as several other minor hobbit characters.

Samwise is one of the chief characters in Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, in which he fills an archetypical role as the sidekick of the primary protagonist, Frodo Baggins.

The courage displayed by Samwise Gamgee on his journey with Frodo, his subjection to dangers and the preparedness to die out of loyalty for Frodo is the kind of spirit that was praised by Tolkien in a number of essays on the Old English poem " The Battle of Maldon ".

When Frodo was betrayed at the pass of Cirith Ungol, Samwise Gamgee saved it from being captured, but later returned the weapon to Frodo.

Amongst the exceptions to this were the surviving bearers of the One Ring — Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and also Samwise Gamgee, who bore the One Ring for some time during their perilous journey to Mt.

Very few non-Elves are known to have passed along this road, including Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and Gimli.

Frodo Baggins ' Samwise Gamgee, and Harry Potter's Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as the afore-mentioned Sancho Panza and Doctor Watson, are notable sidekicks from fiction.

J. R. R. Tolkien took the relationship of his characters Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins from his observations while in military service during World War I of the relationship between a batman and his officer.

When Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee make their way through the bogs the spindly creature Gollum tells them " not to follow the lights " meaning the will o ' the wisps.

On their way to Mordor to destroy the One Ring in, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee are led through the marshes by Gollum.

Aside from Elves, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins also went to Valinor from the Grey Havens, and a family tradition held that Samwise Gamgee, having been himself a Ring-bearer, albeit briefly, did likewise, in the year 1482 of the Shire Reckoning, Fourth Age 61.

When Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee and Gollum passed by the city on their way to Cirith Ungol, the One Ring almost succeeded in compelling Frodo to run right to the city gates.

Jackson said that he had cut the encounter from the theatrical version due to its lack of effect ; he commented that in the book it was dramatic since the reader does not know Frodo Baggins ' fate, but in the film the audience knows that both Frodo and Samwise Gamgee are alive.

In the narrative of The Lord of the Rings, Gollum leads Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee through Ithilien on the way to the pass of Cirith Ungol into Mordor.

During the War of the Ring, Faramir son of Steward Denethor II had his base of operations there, and Frodo Baggins and his companion Samwise Gamgee were taken there by his company.

In the year 172 of the Fourth Age, Findegil completed a copy of the Thain's Book, the most complete copy of the Red Book of Westmarch wherein Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee recorded their adventures.

Several of them rescued Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee from Mount Doom after the One Ring had been destroyed.

At the close of Tolkien's main narrative the work is almost complete, and Frodo leaves the task to his gardener Samwise Gamgee.

* 2980-Arwen pledges her hand in marriage to Aragorn ; Frodo Baggins loses both of his parents in a boating accident ; Aragorn, in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II leads a taskforce south and kills the Captain of the Haven, ruler of Umbar ; Samwise Gamgee born ; Théoden, son of Thengel, becomes seventeenth king of Rohan after the death of his father.

Thus, upon recovery from the wound inflicted by Angmar on Weathertop, Gandalf speculates that the Hobbit Frodo " may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can ".

They are identified by Frodo Baggins as Elves " going into the West ".

In his vision at Amon Hen, Frodo Baggins perceived the immense tower as " wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant ... Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron ".

* In The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel takes Frodo and Sam to look in the " Mirror of Galadriel ".

Frodo writes down the bulk of the final work, using Bilbo's diary and " many pages of loose notes ".

The ring is wielded by Galadriel of Lothlórien, and possesses radiance that matches that of the stars ; while Frodo Baggins can see it by virtue of being a Ring-bearer, Samwise Gamgee tells Galadriel he only " saw a star through your fingers ".