“‘You’ve got it?’ gasped Frodo. ‘You’ve got it here? Sam, you’re a marvel!’ Then quickly and strangely his tone changed. ‘Give it to me!’ he cried, standing up, holding out a trembling hand. ‘Give it to me at once! You can’t have it!’” (Tolkien 890) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a fantasy trilogy that has set the bar for all others of the genre. It follows a young hobbit named Frodo as he, and his companions, struggle to destroy an evil ring capable of the world’s end. Frodo Baggins is the humblest of creatures, yet even he is susceptible to the temptations of pure evil through the ring of power; this is proven through the character transformation Frodo undergoes throughout the book trilogy, and reaches the final breaking
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If he should fail, all his friends, all the places he has been, everything will end. Everyone will die, the shire will burn. He saw the Shire burn in a vision given by an elf. Frodo is devastated that it all depends on him. He is in bone-numbing pain, he has no food or water, the sun never rises. The ring has literally grown so heavy, that Frodo strips all his armor and all his supplies down so that he can do something as simple as walking. “And as Frodo trudges along through Mordor, his internal struggle with the Ring makes him weaker and weaker, because his inner difficulties are taking their physical toll (Shmoop). Frodo’s inner stuggles extend even to his memories, “I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades (Tolkien …show more content…
But he wasn’t supposed to. Everyone said it was impossible, that the ring corrupts all. But Frodo is still the hero. He didn’t give up. Just because one knows that there is no hope, does not mean one should not try. Persistence and the courage never to give up, is what makes Frodo such a compelling character, and it is why the readers forgive him. Look how far a hobbit was able to go! Frodo knew the quest would fail, he knew he would probably die, yet he went anyway. Frodo is not evil because he took the ring, he is good because he got all the way to end without doing it at any time prior to the quest. The moral of the story is that: just because failure seems like the only option, and that no one believes in what is trying to be accomplished, does not mean that one won’t succeed, either by doing the impossible, or by having a spot of good luck. In Frodo’s case, that means having an amazing friend like Sam, and also having someone who wants the ring just as badly, is only a few feet
If he should fail, all his friends, all the places he has been, everything will end. Everyone will die, the shire will burn. He saw the Shire burn in a vision given by an elf. Frodo is devastated that it all depends on him. He is in bone-numbing pain, he has no food or water, the sun never rises. The ring has literally grown so heavy, that Frodo strips all his armor and all his supplies down so that he can do something as simple as walking. “And as Frodo trudges along through Mordor, his internal struggle with the Ring makes him weaker and weaker, because his inner difficulties are taking their physical toll (Shmoop). Frodo’s inner stuggles extend even to his memories, “I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades (Tolkien …show more content…
But he wasn’t supposed to. Everyone said it was impossible, that the ring corrupts all. But Frodo is still the hero. He didn’t give up. Just because one knows that there is no hope, does not mean one should not try. Persistence and the courage never to give up, is what makes Frodo such a compelling character, and it is why the readers forgive him. Look how far a hobbit was able to go! Frodo knew the quest would fail, he knew he would probably die, yet he went anyway. Frodo is not evil because he took the ring, he is good because he got all the way to end without doing it at any time prior to the quest. The moral of the story is that: just because failure seems like the only option, and that no one believes in what is trying to be accomplished, does not mean that one won’t succeed, either by doing the impossible, or by having a spot of good luck. In Frodo’s case, that means having an amazing friend like Sam, and also having someone who wants the ring just as badly, is only a few feet