Frodo's Separation In Lord Of The Rings

Peter Jackson’s development of the famous book “The Lord of The Rings” by J.R.R Tolkien is riddled with underlying themes and references. Each Character in the stories have their own background and emotions, their own personal story. This creates a scenario in which the interactions between the characters can be clearly understood, and their reactions to separation is expected. Separation causes grief in the beginning but in the end it strengthens you as a person.

Frodo’s separation from his home town of Hobbiton made his character grow as an individual. It made him more courageous as he experienced the world around him and met new people and learned to trust his friends. Frodo, prior to the ring being given to him, had never left the Shire. …show more content…
Gandalf, prior to his death, told frodo to “trust yourself, trust your own strengths” and that “evil will be drawn to you...from within”. Gandalf’s death made Frodo really have to think about this as he had no one to trust. He became perspective to his surroundings, as can be seen during the scene in which Galadriel says to him “he will try to take the ring. You know of whom I speak”. Frodo knew exactly who Galadriel meant when she said this, Boromir. He remembered the scene from the mountain where Boromir picked up the ring, what normally might seem as him just inspecting the ring and then handing it back, the scene is played very slowly as if Frodo knows something is wrong. Frodo’s loss lead him to become perceptive to the situation around him and the people. I can relate to this as when I had one of my close Aunt’s die, I became disheartened and sad. The loss made me realize my surroundings about death and how others could die, I understood that separation from those you love leads people to become perceptive to their …show more content…
Aragorn’s reaction to the breaking and Boromir’s death however, was different from everyone else. While they were lost and didn’t know what to do, Boromir’s death motivated Aragorn to not let anyone else die, he gave the others hope and motivated them to go and save Merry and Pippin. Aragorn, when being faced with loss and separation decided to work through it to not let it happen again. I can personally relate to this as when I failed one of my important math test, I put in tons of effort and studied for 2 hours a day for 2 weeks to try and correct my math mark and retest, the mark created a separation between my parents and I as they care very much about my marks and were disappointed with the math mark, the separation caused me to want to make sure It didn’t happen again and strengthened me as a