Frodo Lives! Frodo Lives! "Frodo Lives!" was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to the character Frodo Baggins from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings". The term was used frequently in graffiti, buttons, bumper-stickers, T-shirts, and other materials. It was commonly associated with the hippie movement. Other examples of use include a "Frodo Lives" album released by Smash Records and merchandising items for the New Line Cinema "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. The phrase was also displayed during the activation of a computer virus in the early 1990s, in which the
Frodo Baggins estate, along with the Red Book of Westmarch, to Sam. According to Appendix D of "The Lord of the Rings", Frodo’s birthday was made a festival in Minas Tirith. "The Sea-Bell" was published in Tolkien's 1962 collection of verse "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" with the sub-heading "Frodos Dreme". Tolkien suggests that this enigmatic, narrative poem represents the despairing dreams that visited Frodo in the Shire in the years following the destruction of the Ring. It relates the otherwise unnamed speaker's journey to a mysterious land across the sea, where he tries but fails to make contact with the people