Frodo Baggins

Pure Good

Full Name

Frodo Baggins

Alias

Mr. Frodo

Master Frodo
The Ring Bearer
The Halfling
Frodo of the Shire
Mr. Underhill

Origin

The Lord of the Rings

Powers/Skills

Fighting skills

High intelligence
Swordsmanship skills
Strength
Evasion (with the One Ring)

Family

Primula Brandybuck (mother)

Drogo Baggins (father)
Bilbo Baggins (adopted uncle)

Allies

Samwise Gamgee

Gandalf (Peter Jackson)
Aragorn
Merry
Pippin
Legolas
Gimli
Boromir
Faramir
Bilbo Baggins (Peter Jackson)
Elrond
Galadriel
Sméagol (formerly)

Enemies

Sauron (Peter Jackson) (archenemy)

Saruman (Peter Jackson)
Gollum (second archenemy)
Witch-king of Angmar
Nazgûl
Orcs
Goblins
Trolls
Shelob

Goals

Take the One Ring into Mordor and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom to destroy it once and for all (succeeded).

Goodness Zone

Taking the One Ring to Mount Doom to destroy it and save Middle-earth.
Saving Sam from drowning.

Type of Hero

Insecure Chosen One

“	I will take it! I will take the Ring to Mordor. Though I do not know the way.	„
	~ Frodo, at the Council of Elrond, in The Fellowship of the Ring.

“	How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand…. there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.	„
	~ Frodo lamenting on his quest with the One Ring.

Frodo Baggins is the main protagonist of the classic high-fantasy novel trilogy, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Bilbo Baggins) of the Middle-earth film series, serving as the main protagonist of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

He starts off as a simple Hobbit that has no corrupting sign shown from him, and became the one to bare the burden of the ring alongside the fellowship to aid him and while he is still a good person, this causes Frodo's journey to eventually lose a lot of his innocence due to PTSD from the war and the temptation of the ring.

In the Peter Jackson film trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, he was portrayed by Elijah Wood, who portrayed Mark Evans in The Good Son, Mumble in Happy Feet and the title character in 9.

What Makes Him Pure Good?[]

In General[]

Although Frodo did state to Gandalf that it was a pity that Bilbo didn't kill Gollum, he followed Gandalf's advice of mercy well by giving Gollum multiple chances to redeem himself, which cuts this corrupting factor off.
His aggressive lethality towards his enemies was him acting on survival and grew to hate resorting to violence during the course of the story and swore to never commit those acts ever again.
While Frodo did abandon Sam and tell him to go home, there's a very common misconception that this was because he thought Sam ate all the bread they had left. In actuality, it was because Sam had offered to share the burden of the ring and hold it for a bit, and Gollum had previously planted the idea that Sam wanted to take the ring for himself in Frodo's head, which was probably only accentuated by his prior experience with Boromir when he tried to take the Ring from him. Not only that, but he was extremely hungry and the continued exposure to the Ring was causing him to become more paranoid of others trying to take it in general. Therefore, it was a combination of manipulation and Ring-induced paranoia that caused him to do it, and he quickly regretted doing so later, especially after Sam came back to save him.
At the very moment when he was right in front of the pit of Mount Doom, he temporarily gave in to the temptation of the ring and uses it for his own gain. However, it should be noted that given the circumstance of how tempting the ring would get when arriving at the pit, it is likely that not even the other Pure Goods in the series could have resisted as they were more likely to use the ring for their own gain than him. And while Word of God doesn't affect moral scaling, J.R.R. Tolkien himself states that it would've been impossible for Frodo or anyone else to resist the temptation given the circumstances, and he felt anguish over giving into the ring's temptation.
While he doesn't always acknowledge warnings and has gotten himself into some serious danger doing so, showcasing some sides of ignorance, this is more of a mistake than a true disqualifying factor.

The Lord of the Rings[]

He took the burden of the temptation of the ring on himself so that others won't be corrupted by it which includes Pure Goods as well.
To make sure no one would be at risk of being corrupted by the Ring, Frodo was willing to go on his path alone, and nearly did if Sam didn't make sure he was to come with him on the journey no matter what.
He saved Sam from drowning.
He has shown to be even more resistant to the Ring's temptation compared to most other characters, including other Pure Goods like Sam, who were more mesmerized in wanting to use it more than him.
After spending some time with Gollum, he began to pity and sympathize with him, to the extent he started treating him more kindly and calling him by his real name, Smeagol. For a little while, this even awoke the dormant good side of Gollum's split personality, who told his evil side to go away and started acting more friendly to him and Sam as a result before mistakenly believing Frodo betrayed him as a result of a misunderstanding and his evil side convincing him he was never really his friend.
He stopped Faramir from ordering his men to kill Gollum when he caught him fishing in the Forbidden Pool, which was punishable by death, and personally lured him away so he would be spared (his men then captured him so Faramir could interrogate him, which led Gollum to think he was betrayed, but Frodo didn't even know they were going to do that).
Even after being betrayed by Gollum, he spared his life a second time and told him he needed to destroy the Ring for both their sakes, acknowledging that he became that way in the first place because of its influence and still feeling sorry for him as a result.
Despite the spider stab, Frodo toughened it out and took an extremely exhausting trip to Mordor with little to no rest.
In the film, despite being temporally corrupted as Gollum takes the Ring from Frodo, he snaps out of the selfish temptation, stopped Gollum from using it again and destroyed the Ring once and for all.
He swore to never wield a weapon again, striving to avoid any form of violence.
In the aftermath of wearing the ring, the burden took such a toll on Frodo's innocence that he never was able to cope well with it, meaning he sacrificed his own happiness to save Middle Earth with the return being in grave sorrow.
Despite Grima Wormtongue's actions against the shire, Frodo forgives him and offers him a chance to turn his life around. Frodo is also notably saddened by Grima's death when he is accidentally killed by Hobbit archers, even after learning from Saruman that Grima killed Lotho Sackville Baggins and possibly cannibalized his body.
Even though Saruman committed many atrocities to the point that even the merciful, Théoden, wanted Saruman dead, Frodo still offered Saruman a chance to redeem himself and leave the Shire peacefully, after Saruman had attempted to take it over. Despite Saruman rejecting and mocking Frodo's final offer of redemption, even being rejected by Eru himself, Frodo still feels bad for Saruman.
Although he was corrupted by the Ring, Frodo has shown to have a much stronger will in resisting it than anyone else in the story as even Pure Goods admitted that they couldn't resist the ring's temptation nearly as well as he did, and thankfully the corruption didn't last long enough for him to actually do anything immoral.

Trivia[]

While Frodo was still listed as a good soul in the Heroes community, he was believed to fall just a little short on the moral scaling in being listed under the category of Near Pure Good mainly from the Ring's corruption during Return of the King. However, because of it being unbearably impossible to resist on the Pit of Mount Doom and his strong humility over it, this was later accepted to not be a corrupting factor since it was viewed more as the Ring forcefully imposing control over him to an extent practically no one, not even the purest individuals, could resist, in order to save itself rather than him willingly giving in to its temptations.