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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gepetto" data-source="post: 7941939" data-attributes="member: 6990165">He could have been just another hobbit and it wouldnt have mattered much. Gollum was following the ring, not frodo. Frodo could have just dropped it and gone home and never would have seen gollum again. Gandalf didnt say to Elrond "i needed THIS hobbit. He said hobbits (plural) are tougher then they seem and can resist evil" He would have snatched up any convenient hobbit. He needed someone to carry it who wouldnt be able to use it to become a super villain. Thats why none of the more powerful, better equipped people could be trusted to carry it.Frodo doesnt bring anything to the table from his background. Bilbo had dwarf friends. So what? Theres 1 dwarf in the main story and I dont think they ever have a conversation in the whole thing. He's an elf friend? Big deal. Again theres 1 elf in the party and they never even talk to each other. Their welcomed into Lothlorien because they have the ring and Elrond put in a good word. But ANYONE who was carrying the ring to destroy it would have gotten their help. They didnt know him. The sword he barely uses and could really have been any old sword. He could have just bought an elf sword in rivendell, or asked for one. The armor does save him, but if he had been killed Aragorn would have picked up the ring, taken it to mordor himself, not gotten lost in the mountains of shadow and quite possibly destroyed the thing BEFORE the army of evil killed all those people in Minis Tirith and the surrounding areas.All his background gets him is 2 bumbling henchmen who he would have been better off replacing with a couple of good dogs. Even Sam was only there because Gandalf dragged him along. Frodo didnt go looking for his gardener to drag him out to mordor.And they certainly dont go haring off any sidequests because of anything that happened in the shire before the adventure.Well first, Boromir is clearly an NPC. He has about 3 lines and everyone just ignores everything he has to say until he gets redshirted as a plot device. So that doesnt even count. And second his "backstory" certainly doesnt come up for HIM at all for more then 30 seconds after he gets introduced.Gollum is not a PC either. He's an NPC plot device.Yes NPCs do often have stories. They kind of have to in order to explain their presence in the PC's story. That has no bearing on the topic at hand.</blockquote>

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