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Character name: Frodo Baggins
Series: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Canon point (if applicable): During the War of the Ring, after passing Minas Morgul, climbing up the sides of the cliff to Shelob’s Lair.
Personality: Frodo is a lot of things, and a lot of these things are prone to having duality thanks to the nature of the One Ring. Above all, we start out with an intelligent, gentle, somewhat snarky 50 year old hobbit who doesn’t like a few of his neighbors but generally has a polite outlook — while being very curious, dare say adventurous. Hobbits are to a fault, unfailingly polite, and Frodo is no different. He’s well-versed in lore, far more intelligent than you’d think, and versed in several languages, namely the elven kind.
But what sets Frodo truly apart, is his strength of will. The little hobbit has a painfully low skill in physical prowess, due to the Ring’s sapping of his strength and his own experience. What he lacks in physical might he makes up with an insane strength of will that you wouldn’t expect in a mild-mannered, doe-eyed hobbit from the Shire. He’s incredibly strong but in the most subtle of ways. Frodo’s strength is that he is still standing even while carrying the heaviest, most wicked, most painful thing in his world’s existence. All at the small height that doesn’t even reach 4’ft. It’s that single thing that makes him able to keep his feet to the road.
Of course, that isn’t to say he has his flaws. He can be extremely trusting to a fault, but due to the sway of the Ring, he has become not so much as he used to. Everything is often second-guessed at times, as there are few to trust, and lessons spent with the Fellowship have reminded him that he is a danger to all. With the weight of saving the world on your shoulders, let alone knowing you carry something so awful that it would ruin even the kindest of hearts, it’s safe to say Frodo has a great deal of mental torment, more than one person can really bear. The Ring twists with his mind in subtle ways, causes him at times to lash out, to grow impatient, but still, somehow, Frodo’s will continues to push back this darkness that festers inside him.
In more simpler terms, like his namesake, meaning, ‘old, wise, experienced’ Frodo is very mature, and will often take the responsibility if no one else is willing or capable. That is the very reason he took the Ring, after all. He’s an extremely gentle person, prone to acts of mercy that serve as a redeeming factor for many — and for himself, the one who fears he might never return to the innocent, scholarly hobbit he once was. Among his cousins he is teasing, snarky and brotherly, to Sam he is much like a mentor, and to his older companions their young, but wise-beyond-his-years charge.
Frodo Baggins is a great many things, and some of them he has forgotten by the weight of the chain around his neck. But for all his flaws and perceived ‘failures’ history will remember him simply as the ‘Ringbearer’ of the Third Age, a tiny hero, and a tragic one, at that.
Abilities your character possesses: The one Frodo is most well-known for is the One Ring, whose evil power is unprecedented. It is what can bring the most moral of men to their knees falling to depravity, and can tempt the most pure of hearts to do evil by it, thinking it a good. When Frodo wears it, he is made invisible for a time as long as it is worn. However each time he does so, it weakens him considerably. It is a double-edged sword, and in the end, as Gandalf once told him, ‘the dark power will devour him’, him being the Ringbearer.
So it is an ugly thing, a wicked thing that will attract anyone and anything regardless of how moral they are. It doesn’t matter who you are, it’s bound to tempt you.
Because Frodo is a Ringbearer, and also implied in the books and films that he is capable of dreaming of things that are far-off, dark visions and dreams that have a grain of truth to them, much like foresight. To him they are only nightmares, but it’s either that or dreaming of a giant, flaming eyeball..
He also has Sting, which he’s mainly used as a threatening weapon to tame Smeagol / Gollum, but in a certain part he will use it to try to fend for himself - in vain. So not great in the physical department.
His greatest ability, and the one that makes him the only one fit to carry the One Ring, is his indomitable spirit. Other than that he’s just a little shortie from a place called the Shire.
Weapon of choice: Sting, an elvish-blade that glows blue when orcs are near. Also the One Ring is undoubtedly his greatest and most perilous weapon when facing enemies, (just not Nazgul or Fellbeasts).