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Lyta_Underhill · 07-24-2003, 08:59 AM

I must say I enjoyed the Frodo analysis earlier in this thread quite a lot, but I always do! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] A lot of people seem to think he lost out or was somehow unfulfilled simply for the lack of a life mate, but I cannot agree. Even before the Quest, he seemed constitutionally unsuited for it. He was 50 and living alone with his gardener! I can't see him changing that aspect of his life! No, Frodo was meant to follow in Bilbo's footsteps where lifestyle was concerned, and Bilbo got on just fine being a lifelong bachelor! He found his fulfillment in other things. And while Frodo enjoyed being "The Baggins" of Bag End, he never once entertained the idea of having a Mrs. Baggins. This is as it should be, and I don't see any pain arising from it. He had Sam and he had his younger Shire friends, Merry, Pippin and others as well! Even had he never gone on the quest, he would have been just fine without a wife/girlfriend! The only disquiet I can sense in the pre-Quest Frodo is the same curiousity and sense of adventure that Bilbo had awakened in him from his "Tookish" side. He refused to limit his vision to the Shire, although he loved it. I think it was an easy step for him to take to go away from it for a while (not taking into consideration the import of the quest, but simply the physical act of leaving), but he could never have foreseen how complete that break would be!

Now for something completely different! I always wanted Maedhros and Maglor to find love! For that matter, any of the Sons of Fëanor! They seemed to have such a cursed existence ever since that ill-advised Oath! As awful as Curufin, Caranthir and Celegorm were to the other residents of Beleriand, could they have been better with another focus besides that cursed Oath of Fëanor dogging them? I didn't get the sense that they did anything besides embrace the Oath and its implications, but would they have gone on a different path if it had not been for that Oath? I would like to have seen more descendants of Fëanor, instead of the mere one (Celebrimbor) who came to a sticky end...albeit his creations and their consequences rocked the Third Age!

Cheers,
Lyta

07-24-2003, 08:59 AM	#79
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	I must say I enjoyed the Frodo analysis earlier in this thread quite a lot, but I always do! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] A lot of people seem to think he lost out or was somehow unfulfilled simply for the lack of a life mate, but I cannot agree. Even before the Quest, he seemed constitutionally unsuited for it. He was 50 and living alone with his gardener! I can't see him changing that aspect of his life! No, Frodo was meant to follow in Bilbo's footsteps where lifestyle was concerned, and Bilbo got on just fine being a lifelong bachelor! He found his fulfillment in other things. And while Frodo enjoyed being "The Baggins" of Bag End, he never once entertained the idea of having a Mrs. Baggins. This is as it should be, and I don't see any pain arising from it. He had Sam and he had his younger Shire friends, Merry, Pippin and others as well! Even had he never gone on the quest, he would have been just fine without a wife/girlfriend! The only disquiet I can sense in the pre-Quest Frodo is the same curiousity and sense of adventure that Bilbo had awakened in him from his "Tookish" side. He refused to limit his vision to the Shire, although he loved it. I think it was an easy step for him to take to go away from it for a while (not taking into consideration the import of the quest, but simply the physical act of leaving), but he could never have foreseen how complete that break would be! Now for something completely different! I always wanted Maedhros and Maglor to find love! For that matter, any of the Sons of Fëanor! They seemed to have such a cursed existence ever since that ill-advised Oath! As awful as Curufin, Caranthir and Celegorm were to the other residents of Beleriand, could they have been better with another focus besides that cursed Oath of Fëanor dogging them? I didn't get the sense that they did anything besides embrace the Oath and its implications, but would they have gone on a different path if it had not been for that Oath? I would like to have seen more descendants of Fëanor, instead of the mere one (Celebrimbor) who came to a sticky end...albeit his creations and their consequences rocked the Third Age! Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”