The diminshing of the characters

[Neferchoirwen]

The way I see it is like reading a history book. History books have the lives of great people that we incidentally look up too. The people in the Silm are great, and are, as much as possible, emulated by the generations in the 3rd age. (too wide a gap to make a connection there) The Silm is like a history book for ME, and the 3rd age needed heroes, and so ME was provided with one: Frodo.

Unless Frodo bravely began his journey to Mount Doom, he would not have been worthy of a song, with Sam in the chorus [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] In terms of "greatness," Frodo would have been the "new breed" of heroes the Middle Earth ould celebrate.