Wow, I don't even know if I want to post here. I feel so small and insignificant. x_x But this has been an interesting thread. Too many thoughts have now been added to my pysche. Thanks, you've know added an extra 30 or 40 minutes to my falling asleep time. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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they achieved what no one else has done in the entire Legendarium -- for a short time at least, incarnate evil in the form of Sauron is beaten back. And Frodo is a very important piece of that puzzle. Indeed I would argue that he is the most important piece.
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That is so true. In a world where men falter and fall, the light prevails. Frodo allows for the light to be spread for a short while. I know it's so not true, but I always felt like the light and hope he was always given to help on the quest i.e. encouragement, Sam, the phial, and his inner strength that shown through in that one 'bite' is relased into the world. And that unshakeable hope is what rocks the world and allows for the evil to be suppressed.
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I guess I'm still struggling with the idea that Frodo would have fallen for that deception. He's brighter than that.
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So-- for preservation of The Shire (and Bilbo)-- I see that he would want those things, yes, but I'm just not convinced he'd buy the Rings' offer to do it. He knew better, and I think his "good hobbit sense" would have told him (as it told Sam) that such things would not be.
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As for the question why he bought it, I do sincerely believe he just wanted to go back to his simple life. The way things were. He was in such a state, he would have taken anything, just to go back to living a simple life. As someone pointed out earlier, he kept asking Why me? Why this? Why now? We ask the same questions in our own lives when we are handed things in life. Why do I have to deal with this diease? Why did they have to die? Why does life have to be so complicated? I think someone mentioned that he knew his life was going to end as he knew it. He had been wounded, hurt, and mentally abused. The only thing that seemed to make sense of his life was the ring. The Ring had been always around him. Bilbo had always had it. A small trinket of his adventures. Frodo came to live with Bilbo and saw it even more. Then Bilbo came up and left and he now was in possesion. Somewhere in his mind, he found solace in the ring. It reminded him of his life. It sounds so twisted, but it was a comfort. Actually, I do believe somewhere it mentions Gollum saying something along the lines of 'The ring has always existed. There was nothing before the precious.' I must find that.....
And I do believe in his mind somewhere he wanted to protect the Shire, and the ring played off of that. It took the Shire away from him. Sort of 'If you take me, I can give you back your Shire.' And towards the end he craved it so much. He knew the ring 'had' the memory and it was always on his mind. It's not that he didn't have Hobbit sense enough, I don't think in that moment he may have really remembered what it was like to be a hobbit.
Sorry, when I started this post, I didn't realize there was already a second page. Sorry to be so off-topic...
<font size=1 color=339966>[ 7:47 PM January 26, 2004: Message edited by: Sleeping Beauty ]