The Hobbit In J. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship Of The Ring

Set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the first volume of the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who is seeking the One Ring. The Ring has found its way to Frodo Baggins. The journey to Mount Doom, the only place that can destroy the Ring, begins with Frodo Baggins and eight companions forming the fellowship of the ring. J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring displays Frodo Baggins’s character full of bravery, trust, and leadership within the journey.
Frodo Baggins is the brave hobbit even he has fear and deeply courage. “I do really wish to destroy it!” Cried Frodo. “Or, well, to have it destroyed. I am not made for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?” (95-96) Frodo really wants to …show more content…
When referring to a conversation between Gandalf and Frodo before the journey, Sam says to Frodo, “When you said ‘go alone’, he said ‘no! take someone as you can trust’ said Gandalf” (150) Gandalf tells Frodo not to go alone, take someone that he can trust with him. He wants to go alone because he does not trust people and he does not want anybody to steal the Ring from him. He wants to destroy the Ring. But you have to trust people, you can choose people that you can trust. “But it does not seem that I can trust anyone” (150) Frodo said it seem like he cannot trust anyone. If you do not trust people, who will trust you? You have to trust people first and they will trust you. “I will go alone. Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me: poor old Sam, and Merry and Pippin. Strider, too: his heart yearns for Minas Tirith, and he will be needed there, now Boromir has fallen into evil. I will go alone. At once.” (519-520) Frodo does not trust anybody in the Fellowship of the Ring because Boromir falls into evil. He is not supposed to bring one person to destroy his trust for …show more content…
Frodo is a leader of the fellowship of the ring, he leads them to Mount Doom. “I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.” (96) Frodo thinks, he should go to destroy the Ring to save the Shire, if he could. He is the leader to go on the journey to Mount Doom, because he wants to destroy the Ring to save the Shire. The significant thing to be a leader is to be brave, you have to be brave first and then, you can be a leader. He is the representative of the hobbits to go to destroy the Ring. “I will take the ring”, Frodo said, “thought I do not know the way” (354) He will take the ring even he does not know the way. Frodo has qualification enough to be a leader even he does not know what will be, but he has spirit of a leadership. Although, sometimes he just trusts in himself not listens what anybody saying or he tries to make everybody trust in himself. He controls people sometimes when he is too

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