Is there a connection between frodo and sauron?

[Lyta_Underhill]

About the connection between Frodo and Sauron- what? like Harry/Voldemort?

Indeed! And indeed it is also as Prof. Dumbledore tells Harry, "you can speak parseltongue because Lord Voldemort can speak parseltongue." And it doesn't make Harry think any more like Voldemort or have any spiritual connection with him beyond the curse effects and the fact that he killed Harry's parents.

Just as with Frodo, the Ring is the connection and the changes in Frodo come about from its influence and the circumstances brought on by the Quest. He grows, Sauron gropes. I just don't see any spiritual connection beyond that.

he was corrupted by the deception of the Ring and its promises to give him power and respect,

I think that Frodo was, as Tolkien puts it, "in an apparently complete trap." This is probably because his dearest wish was to save the Shire and live with Bilbo and be happy. I don't see him craving respect, but being rather embarrassed by it, feeling that he was not worthy of it. His exchanges with Faramir commanded respect and showed him to be worthy of respect in Faramir's eyes, but I don't think he craved such a thing; the Ring had a more ironic and terrible fate in store for him, I think. At least that is how I see it.

Cheers,
Lyta