Frodo Brandybuck?!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Interesting topic, Esty! Hmm... will have to look at it deeper and not now in the evening, but it will be definitely worth it. Now only one idea that occured to me...

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

How did he become such an isolated person despite growing up in the abundance of family surrounding him there?

I believe you actually hit the nail here - he was growing up among lots of hobbits, we even know he had a nice company of mushroom-robbers there (the ones who followed him - Farmer Maggot says Frodo was the worst one, and elsewhere it's said, I believe, that he organised the trips), yet maybe there was something in his personality that just did not fit. He was growing up in the abundance of family surrounding him there - but he was not a Brandybuck. He was a Baggins