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 in Sindarin (another of Tolkien's invented languages) appears to have been "Iorhael", which is derived from "ior" meaning "old" and "hael" meaning "wise". In "The Return of the King" he is also referred to by the name "Daur", a Sindarin word meaning "noble" (or perhaps "Wise by experience," if it means the same as "Frodo" does.) In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of "The Lord of the Rings", Frodo was voiced by Christopher Guard. In the 1980 Rankin/Bass animated version of "The Return of the King", made for television, the character was voiced by Orson Bean, who had previously played