Frodo Lives! text 'Frodo Lives!' was displayed in large letters with a moving border. The term first became popular because of an increase in the availability and number of readers of the novel (which, up until that point, had been subject to rather mixed reviews) following release of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. While no longer as pervasive as it once was, the term continues to appear regularly in newspaper articles and popular culture related to Tolkien's stories. Frodo Lives! "Frodo Lives!" was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to the character Frodo Baggins from J. R. R.
Captain Frodo a member of the cast of La Clique on Canal+ "Le Grand Journal". Captain Frodo holds two Guinness World Records, the first one for “Most Sword Swallowers Swallowing the Same Object Simultaneously”. The record involved swallowing the leg from the same chair with three other swallowers The Space Cowboy, Thomas Blackthorne and Gordo Gamsby. The second record is for the ""Single Sword Swallowed by the Most Sword Swallowers"" (in 1994) which is shared with forty three other sword swallowers: Thomas Blackthorne, Dai Andrews, Roderick Russell, Dan Meyer, Damien Blade, Johnny Fox, Ses Carny, Frack, Malakai, George the Giant (George McArthur),