

While encamped at Amon Sûl, they were found and attacked by five Nazgûl. The group, under Aragorn's guidance, quickly fled through the Midgewater Marshes and again escaped the Black Riders.

This attracted the attention of Sauron's agents, who ransacked the hobbits' rooms in the night. The One Ring slipped onto Frodo's finger inadvertently in the Prancing Pony's common room, turning Frodo invisible. They followed Frodo's trail across the Shire and nearly intercepted him.Īt the Inn of the Prancing Pony in the village of Bree, Frodo met Aragorn, also called Strider, a Ranger of the North, who became the hobbits' guide while journeying through the wilderness towards Rivendell. They escaped just in time, for Sauron's most powerful servants, the Nine Nazgûl, had entered the Shire as Black Riders, looking for the Ring. He left the Shire with three companions: his gardener and best friend Samwise Gamgee and his cousins Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. Realizing that he was a danger to the Shire as long as he remained there with the Ring, Frodo decided to leave his home and take the Ring to Rivendell, home of Elrond, a mighty Elf-lord. Frodo kept the Ring hidden for 17 years until Gandalf returned to tell him that it was the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, who desired to use it to conquer Middle-earth.

Gandalf, at this time, was not certain about the origin of the Ring, so he warned Frodo to avoid using it and to keep it secret. Frodo inherited Bag End and Bilbo's magic ring that was introduced in The Hobbit. The 1st volume of the novel, The Fellowship of the Ring, opens as Frodo came of age (at 33 years old) and Bilbo left the Shire for good on his 111th birthday. Tolkien's novels The Lord of the Rings Part 1, The Fellowship of the Ring He also appears as a minor character in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In the film series, he serves as the main protagonist of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, being the main protagonist of both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King, and one of the two main protagonists of The Two Towers (along with Aragorn).
