Frodo Baggins Frodo Baggins Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, and the main protagonist of "The Lord of the Rings". Frodo is a hobbit of the Shire who inherits the One Ring from his cousin (referred to as his uncle) Bilbo Baggins and undertakes the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom. He is also mentioned in Tolkien's posthumously published works, "The Silmarillion" and "Unfinished Tales". Frodo did not appear until the third draft of "A Long-Expected Party" (the first chapter of "The Lord of the Rings"), when he was named Bingo (after
Thy name is referring to Channing's Transcendentalist poetry style. Thy name is "______, thy name is ______" is a snowclone used to indicate the completeness with which something or somebody (indicated by the second part) embodies a particular quality (indicated by the first part), usually a negative one. In most instances, the usage is an allusion to the Shakespearean play "Hamlet" (). In this work, the title character is chastised by his uncle (and new stepfather), Claudius, for grieving his father so much, calling it unmanly. In his resultant soliloquy, Hamlet denounces his mother's swift remarriage with the statement, "Frailty, thy name is