"I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."
"I see no hope of it now. But I've got to do the best I can."
cryin because i don’t really want frodo to go back but it would be against his character to stay. he really feels the ring is his responsibility entirely, even if it was passed down to him, and it’s his duty. and with the weight of the entire world he knows on his shoulders he has no choice.
but like it’s so sad because like, the ring really destroys your body, well, every part of you but it destroys your sense of taste, sight (there are parts in the book where frodo seems kind of blinded by darkness literally that makes it hard for him to proceed) and the way things feel to your hands.
and since he’s halfway and he’s lost the ring he’s slowly regaining parts of his normal senses so it’s really sad.
i mean not everything i write with frodo will be sad, because he isn’t compromised of his tragic heroism, he’s also a run-of-the-mill dude, and enjoys things like anyone else. so there will be happy things too! that doesn’t stop my heart from breaking though, knowing that he’d leave even bilbo behind if it meant saving the world.
tl;dr he’s a sweet heroic little old man and he has a tendency for martyrdom so people he meets that will be his friends/comrades look after the little guy okay? he doesn’t have to be alone here. of course you have to get in line because sam is here so obvious the safest place for him.
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