Frodo Baggins Party" relates that Frodo's parents Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck had been killed in a boating accident when Frodo was 12; Frodo subsequently spent the next nine years living with his maternal family, the Brandybucks in Brandy Hall. At the age of 21 he was adopted by his cousin, Bilbo, who brought him to live at Bag End. He and Bilbo shared the same birthday, the 22nd of 'September'. It was Bilbo who introduced the Elvish languages to Frodo, and they often shared long walking trips together. Frodo and Meriadoc Brandybuck are first cousins once removed, since Frodo is first
Frodo Baggins 2005) that the themes and internal logic of the Jackson films are undermined by the portrayal of Frodo, whom he considers a weakening of Tolkien's original. Elijah Wood reprised his role of Frodo in "", the first part of "The Hobbit" trilogy (2012–2014). On stage, Frodo was portrayed by James Loye in the three-hour stage production of "The Lord of the Rings", which opened in Toronto in 2006, and was brought to London in 2007. In the United States, Frodo was portrayed by Joe Sofranko in the Cincinnati productions of "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), "The Two Towers" (2002),