Frodo Baggins And thus it was, the Fourth Age of Middle-earth began. And the Fellowship of the Ring, though eternally bound by friendship and love... was ended.
4th most-quoted character in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): in 17 of its 108 quotes
Most scenes with: Treebeard (9), Sam (9), Gollum (4)
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back. There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
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2 quotes Frodo Baggins Frodo Baggins Thirteen months to the day since Gandalf sent us on our long journey, we found ourselves looking upon a familiar sight: We were home.
Scenes with Frodo Baggins
14 scenesHaven't you had any sleep, Mr. Frodo? I've gone and had too much. It must be getting late.
Frodo No, it isn't. It isn't midday yet. The days are growing darker.
Frodo What about you?
I'm not hungry. Leastways, not for lembas bread.
Frodo Sam...
Alright. We don't have that much left. We have to be careful or we're going to run out. You go ahead and eat that, Mr Frodo. I've rationed it. There should be enough.
Frodo For what?
The journey home.
Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon, and the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields. Eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?
Frodo No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. Instead I'm... naked in the dark. There's nothing. No veil between me and the wheel of fire! I can see him... with my waking eyes!
Then let us be rid of it! Once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you! Come on!
Destroy it! Now! Throw it in the fire!
Frodo [Frodo turns around and faces Sam]
The Ring is mine.
Frodo It's gone! It's done!
Yes, Mr. Frodo. It's over now.
Frodo I can see the Shire. The Brandywine River. Bag End. Gandalf's fireworks, the lights, the party tree.
Rosie Cotton dancing. She had ribbons in her hair. If ever I was to marry someone... it would have been her. It would have been her!
Frodo I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee. Here, at the end of all things.
[Sam reads the title of the Red Book]
There and Back Again - A Hobbit's Tale by Bilbo Baggins and The Lord of the Rings by Frodo Baggins. You've finished it!
Frodo Not quite. There's room for a little more.
Frodo [narration]
Bilbo once told me, his part in this tale would end. That each of us must come and go in the telling. His part in this tale was now over. There would be no more journeys for Bilbo... save one.
Bilbo Tell me again, lad, where are we going?
Frodo To the harbour, Bilbo. The Elves have accorded you a special honour. A place on the last ship to leave Middle-earth.
Bilbo Frodo, any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again? The one I gave you?
Frodo I'm sorry, Uncle. I'm afraid I lost it.
Bilbo Oh, pity. I should like to have held it, one last time.
Farewell, my brave Hobbits. My work is now finished. Here at last, on the shores of the sea, comes the end of our Fellowship. I will not say "do not weep", for not all tears are an evil. It is time, Frodo.
What does he mean?
Frodo We set out to save the Shire, Sam, and it has been saved... but not for me.
You don't mean that! You can't leave!
Frodo [Frodo hands Sam Bilbo's book]
The last pages are for you, Sam.
Frodo [Sam returns home to his family] [narration]
My dear Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy, and to be, and to do. Your part in the journey will go on.
Sméagol
[talking in his sleep]
Too risky, too risky.
[also in his sleep]
The thieves! They stole it from us. Kill them. Kill them. kill them both!
Smeagol [wakes up, alarmed]
No!
Shhh! Quiet! Mustn't wake them, mustn't ruin it now!
Sméagol
But they knows, they knows. They suspects us! [walks to the nearby pond. Smeagol looks at his own reflection who is actually Gollum]
Sméagol
No! Not! Never! Sméagol hates nasty Hobbitses! Smeagol wants to see them...dead.
And we will. Sméagol did it once, he can do it again. It's ours. Ours!
Sméagol
We must get the Precious. We must get it back!
Patience! Patience, my love. First we must lead them to her.
Sméagol We lead them to the winding stair.
Gollum Yes, the stairs. And then?
Sméagol
Up, up, up, up, up the stairs we go. Until we come to...the tunnel!
Gollum And when they go in, there's no coming out. She's always hungry, she always needs to feed. She must eat, all she gets filthy Orcses.
Sméagol
And they doesn't taste very nice, does they, Precious?
Gollum No...not very nice at all, my love. She hungers for sweeter meats. Hobbit meat. And when she throws away the bones, and the empty clothes, then we will find it!
Sméagol
[happily]
And take it for me!
Sméagol
[cowed]
Yes, we...we meant for us.
[coughing]
Gollum! Gollum! The Precious will be ours...once the Hobbitses are dead! [sees Sam's reflection over his shoulder, having heard everything]
You treacherous little toad! [hits Gollum and begins strangling him]
Frodo [wakes up]
No, Sam! Leave him alone!
I heard it from his own mouth! He means to murder us!
[as Sméagol]
Never! Sméagol wouldn't hurt a fly! [screams] He's a horrid, fat Hobbit, who hates poor Sméagol, and who makes up nasty lies!
You miserable little maggot! I'll stove your head in!! [lunges at Sméagol, but Frodo restrains him] Call me a liar?! You're a liar!
Frodo You scare him off, we're lost!
I don't care! I can't do it, Mr. Frodo, I won't wait around for him to kill us!
Frodo I'm not sending him away.
You don't see it, do you? He's a villain.
Frodo We can't do this by ourselves, Sam. Not without a guide. I need you on my side.
I'm on your side, Mr. Frodo.
Frodo I know, Sam. I know. Trust me. Come, Sméagol.
[Smeagol follows Frodo and looks at Sam; Gollum grins evilly at Sam]
[Extended edition only]
Must be getting near teatime. Leastways it would be in decent places where there is still teatime.
Frodo It's just a feeling. I don't think I'll be coming back.
Yes, you will. Of course you will. That's just morbid thinking. We're going there and back again, just like Mr. Bilbo. You'll see.
Frodo [The hobbits and Gollum continue walking, passing by an ancient statue of a Gondorian king, vandalized by a boulder bearing Sauron's eye]
These lands once belonged to the Kingdom of Gondor. Long ago, when there was a king.
[The trio pass by the decapitated head of the statue, filled with vines. As the sun shines for a moment, the sunlight magically makes the vines bloom white like flowers] [noticing the flowers bloom]
Mr. Frodo, look! The king's got a crown again.
[Frodo and Sam smile, comforted for a short while until the sunlight disappears, covered by the thick dark clouds, and the flowers on the king's head disappear] [to the hobbits]
This way, Hobbitses! Follow me!
[While Frodo and Sam are sleeping, Gollum wakes up, takes the Elven bread, sprinkles some onto a sleeping Sam, and throws the bread off the cliff they are on, to frame Sam] [waking up]
What are you up to? Sneaking off, are we?
[as Sméagol]
Sneaking? [indignant] S-Sneaking?! Fat hobbit is always so polite. Sméagol shows them secret ways that nobody else could find, and they say "sneak"! Sneak?! Very nice friend. Oh, yes, my precious. Very nice, very nice...
All right! All right. You just startled me is all. What were you doing?
Sméagol [sarcastic]
Sneaking.
Fine. Have it your own way. [wakes Frodo] I'm sorry to wake you, Mr. Frodo. We have to be moving on.
Frodo It's dark still.
It's always dark here. [notices the bread is missing] It's gone. The Elvin bread!
Frodo What?! That's all we have left!
You're a lying rat! What did you do with it?!
Frodo He doesn't eat it. He can't have taken it.
["notices" the crumbs on Sam's cloak]
Look. What's this? [takes the crumbs off the jacket and gasps] Crumbs on his jacketses! He took it! He took it! I've seen him. He's always stuffing his face when Master's not looking.
That's a filthy lie! [punches Gollum] You stinking, two-faced sneak!
Frodo Sam! Stop it! Sam! [pulls Sam away from Gollum] Sam! No!
Oh, my! I'm sorry. I didn't mean it to go so far. I was just so, so angry. Here, let's, let's just rest a bit.
Frodo I'm all right.
No. You're not all right. You're exhausted. It's that Gollum. It's this place. It's that thing around your neck! I could help a bit. I could carry it for a while. [the words echo in Frodo's mind] Carry it for a while...I could carry it...I could carry it...Share the load...Share the load...The load...The load...
Frodo [pushes Sam away upon hearing the echoes]
Get away!!
I don't want to keep it! I just want to help.
Frodo No, Sam. It's you. I'm sorry, Sam.
Frodo You can't help me anymore.
Frodo Go home.
[Sam breaks down crying, as Frodo and Gollum leave to continue their climb to Mordor]
[Extended Edition only] [choking Frodo on Mount Doom]
Mustn't go that way! Mustn't hurt the Precious!
Frodo You swore! You swore on the Precious!
Frodo Sméagol promised!
[In Bag End, a very weak-looking Frodo is writing down his memoir in Bilbo's Red Book. As he suddenly feels an aching pain on his left shoulder, Sam comes in]
Mr. Frodo, what is it?
Frodo [weakly]
It's been four years to the day since Weathertop, Sam. It's never really healed.
[Sam comforts Frodo. He then looks at the title page of the Red Book with amazement in his eyes]
There and Back Again, A Hobbit's Tale by Bilbo Baggins. And The Lord of the Rings, by Frodo Baggins. [smiles] You finished it.
Frodo Not quite. [closes the Red Book] There's room for little more.
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