What did frodo do for a living?
genius billionaire playboy philanthropist
he was a NEET. bilbo was rich, why work?
>>70954934
sam
Rode on the success of his ancestor Bilbo
>>70954934
>not realizing the blessed English class system allowed the upper crust an entire life without responsibility or obligation.
FUCK SAM
>>70954952
Basically this. What LOTR fails to really grasp is that Bilbo is filthy fucking rich after the whole Smaug thing. As Bilbo's chosen Son Surrogate, Frodo is heir to his fortune. He's Hobbiton equivalent of the landed gentry.
He was only 40. In hobbit years thats like 14 so he didn't have to work. This is why millennials do not work, as we are gradually evolving into hobbits.
Bilbo was the richest man west of Misty Mountains. Frodo inherited enough wealth to be able to buy the entire Shire if he had just wanted to.
So instead of doing anything productive, he probably just sat in his home, smoking "famous Shire tobacco" (weed) and spent time reading books.
Until he got so bored he decided to go to Mordor as a tourist. Too much smoking can damage the brains it seems.
What DIDN'T he do??
>>70955234
Is that why he didn't use the eagles?
>>70955234
How come the Shire is about the same size as Rohan and Gondor combined? That's a lot of land for 2 kingdoms to just ignore
>>70955618
Middle Earth is extremely depopulated.
Sauron didn't even know that Hobbits existed, for instance.
Besides Bree and the Shire, eradior is mostly wilderness
>>70955710
>Besides Bree and the Shire, eradior is mostly wilderness
oh, to live in a world like that again
>>70954934
He was a professional Child molester
how do hobbits know what a menu is
Prostitution, gambling, drugs, smuggling, murder for hir,e and landscaping.
>>70954934
He was pretty rich in the Hobbit world. Basically upper class, and his family stretched back generations. Sam was literally his servant.
>>70955918
It's a bastardisation of the Elvish Mëńúâéûè, which means "The futility felt when there are many paths to choose", Hobbits of course dumbed it down and made it about Food.
>>70955234
Where the fuck is the shire on the map? I've been trying to see it for 10 minutes. I coulda sworn it was next to those mountains, but I can't see it on there at all
>>70956229
right above the D in Eriador
>>70954934
Really rich landed gentry.
>>70956000
Trips and a sense of humor, what a time to be alive
>>70955889
>oh, to live in a world like that again
I love a good city nightlife but there is something VERY attractive amount hiking through Middle Earth (assuming I don't get raped by an orc)
>>70955618
Do you think any kingdom would try to take a land populated by
>Hillybilly Rangers
>Barrow Wraiths
>Warg
>Tom Fucking Bombadil
>>70956300
>Tom Fucking Bombadil
He's just a meme.
>>70956277
wow just like in skyrim
>>70954934
He was chilling on Bilbo's wealth + his cousins Merry and Pippin were the sons of important hobbits.
Sam was the only member of the Fellowship who didn't have a significant lineage
Aragorn was the heir of Gondor and future King of men
Legolas was an elvish prince
Gimli was the son of a Noble dwarf
Boromir the captain of Gondor and son of the Steward
Gandalf was basicaly an angel
Sam was one of the many sons of a Gardener
>>70956261
Ohh I got it, thanks senpai, that other guy said it was huge so I wasn't looking at the tiny places
>>70956277
>assuming I don't get raped by an orc
if anything, that would complete the experience.
He was from an important and rich family.
>>70956300 >>70956319
I'd watch a Bombadil-centric Predator type film about a company of Men being picked off one by one
>>70956371
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZouiWmzWoY
>>70956349
>his cousins Merry and Pippin were the sons of important hobbits.
Wasn't Pippins father a paladin?
>>70956000
>>70954934
Nothing, he is landed gentry. So are Merry and Pipin, who come from the most ancient and noble hobbit dynasties Only Sam is a filthy peasant.
>>70954934
Invented Facebook
>>70956393
He wasn't some virtious Knight of the shire, Paladin was his name ; Paladin Took, Thain of the Shire
>>70956371
>it all started because they destroyed goldberry's waterlilies when camping by the spot where Tom gathers them, the day before he makes his trip
>ghostly echoes of "old tom bombadill he's a merry fellow..." coming from somewhere around them, steadily becoming louder
>You will never see a big budget on screen depiction of Tom 'the absoloute madman' Bombadill
>>70955618
that entire part, eriador used to be part of the original gondor.
There where cities and towns there that where just as big as the ones in the current gondor.
But humans&elfs&dwarfs got so BTFO because of different reasons that not much was left by the time the hobbit starts.
>>70956300
The stewards should have just claimed it or formed a protectorate or something. The only things you have to look out are orc/dickwolf incursions from the north and east. Fuck the line of kings. If they want Arnor back, they can come out of their forests and say it out loud.
>>70956524
>Brian Blessed will die before he gets to play Tom
Friendly reminder that the Shire used to swear fealty to a king, and went off to fight in human wars as archers and slingshot-troops, where they proved very capable despite their few numbers.
>>70956640
They cant because the Witch king cursed the land real hard and real bad, and then genocided the entire population.
>>70955234
anyone knows what kind of races inhabit forlindon and harlindon? are there men up there? or is it just abandoned because arnor got BTFO?
>>70956882
There be sailor elves in those parts
Why was Frodo such a good goy?
What made him not want the rings power?
Is it because he was already so wealthy that he didn't have any utility for more wealth? And he didn't care for power because he was stoned and didn't want anything to do?
>>70956882
elves, remnant of First Age elven kingdoms of Belerieland. Noldorin and Sindar, Gil-Galad ruled there during Second Age, died against Sauron, Cirdan the Shipwright was left in charge at Grey Havens during Third Age.
>>70956937
they've got quite a bit of land then
I always thought it was just mithlond and the surrounding area
>>70955006
But the hobbit ends with Bilbo pissing away his money giving gifts to everyone so they would stop talking bad behind his back
>>70957128
writers always metaphor their books
so tolkein was sad that nobody liked him and he bought their love? sounds about right
>>70957128
bilbo owns 1/14 of all gold in erebor. i think he can spare a few gifts
>>70954934
Bagginses are landed, they don't particularly do anything except collect rent.
>>70957147
Tolkien hated people trying to pust messages on his books. He wrote them because he wanted too, not to tell a message to people.
>>70957147
The point of gandalf picking Bilbo in the first place was because Bilbo was both the son of a family of well off hobbits that never left the town and the one crazy family of hobbits that went off to adventures but he was raised and lived his entire life as the comfortable one.
When he comes back all the other hobbits keep talking about that crazy guy that dissappeared into the night and he doesn't come back mega rich but with a good chunk of money so over the years he keeps making gifts to the other hobbits so they would stop spreading rumors and that's it for his mlney
>>70955889
>oh, to live in a world like that again
You could always live in North Dakota, Anon.
>>70957275
Not only that but making Bilbo rich mind of fucks up his character, he started a simple hobbit and didn't become an action character at the end, he just went back to being a hobbit just with a story to tell
>>70957349
>A mountain filled with pure gold as far as the eye can see
>Dont take anything
nigga he had the ring with him when he left, the ring exaggerates bad traits, and greed was bad.
he definitly took a couple wheelbarrows full of gold with him
>>70957229
Again that just cheapens the character, hobbits aren't humans. Their distinctive trait is thier lack of greed that's why while every other race builds empires they just chill and smoke
The hobbit was about taking the most insignificant creature onan adventure around an amazing world and at the end he goes back to being what he always was, he doesn't jump onto a note and rides away to the sunset to come back in the hobbit two Bilbo's retribution
>>70957452
I read the book, the book said he took enough money to give everyone some sorth of expensive gift, maybe there was enough left for him to eat and smoke better for a while but that's it, this isn't game of thrones, nobody is going to rape pipin
>>70957507
Its safe to assume he took enough to live without working for hundreds years
>>70957507
>nobody is going to rape pippin
Anon, this orc wasn't playing games
>>70957548
It's not because the book says otherwise. The treasure Bilbo took wasn't gold that's why he ends up spending the rest of his life until the Lord of the rings starts writing the book about his adventures,
>>70957507
He also took the troll's gold that the dwarves buried.
>>70957626
Losten, I read the book as a kid. I remember the ending but I don't remember every detail of the story, you can understand why it ends the way it does I assume. There is no point oin making Bilbo rich, he does take some money home but he doesn't become Lord of the hobbits
>>70956319
A meme, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in Middle Earth. You get your first look at this "meme" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like a fell beast - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Tom. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two Toms you didn't even know were there. Because Tom's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this...A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here...Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when he starts to eat you. So, you know, try to show a little respect.
>>70957726
actually the estimated worth of bilbo's mithril coat was enough to buy out all of the shire several times over
>>70957726
>Lord of the hobbits
he does though
>>70955234
ITS NOT WEED
REEEEEEEEEEE
During the part at the Gray Havens, there is a small but very specific mention that makes clear that Frodo is sufficently rich to not have to work. Makes sense, considering that Sam was his employee, and that Frodo could hastily buy that house at Crickhollow simply as a cover to their quest.
Frodo more or less was a Hobbit version of Bruce Wayne.
>>70957818
>Froddo was a hobbit version of Bruce Wayne
America was a mistake
>>70957726
Bilbo was already in good position BEFORE going to his quest, the Bagginses were described as being a family of "Gentle-Hobbits" and were closely related to both the Tooks and the Brandybucks, which were the ruling clans of the Shire.
>>70957939
Exactly, I already said that myself
>>70957818
>hobbit bruce wayne
Obviously there's the Scouring of the Shire at the end of the books, but how come before that some Goblin raiding party or the evilish men from that area didn't stumble across Hobbiton and fuck shit up?
>>70956938
holy shit is that real?
>>70958058
Because there was no such a thing as Goblins anywhere near the Shire, and the humans were those in Bree who for the most part had a enduring commercial relationship with the Hobbits, and thus had no reason to fuck shit up.
>>70958036
>>70957910
His parents were dead!
>What did frodo do for a living?
In the books he was Bilbo Baggins' ward. Bilbo returned from his trip with the dwarves very, very wealthy ( The trolls' hoard was given to him, rather than him lug gold from The Lonely Mountain).
Frodo's parents died in a boating accident, Bilbo took him in.
>>70954971
underrated
>>70956938
Hobbits don't really have the disposition to power-trip.
![2bcb04d4b52752ad807549532034785e[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Fn7EBGy.jpg "2bcb04d4b52752ad807549532034785e[1].jpg")
Is it just me or anyone else thinks that Elijah Wood is underrated?
>>70958329
he's The Guy
>>70958259
el justo jaja
>>70958058
There was http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Golfimbul and the Fell Winter when they were invaded by Wargs. In general though the Shire was protected by the rangers which is why Saruman was able to take control when they all left for the War of the Ring.
>>70956387
That was surreal
>>70957456
They're an offshoot tribe of Humans
>>70956000
Excellent post, you should be ashamed.
>>70956000
KEK
>>70954934
Smoke weed every day.
>>70956387
wtf?
>>70956938
Frodo was shit-tier next to Bilbo. Bilbo had it for half a century without going crazy. The only moment it showed a tiny bit was when he had to hand it over, and even then he did it in the end while Frodo slipped it on and tried to escape.
It's basically because hobbits are innocent creatures who don't really covet power or money like men do. Sam is just as happy as Frodo, despite being Frodo's fucking gardener.
>>70957910
Anon i think the obvious point of these books was that the industrial revolution was a mistake, not America; imagine a nation stretched sea to shining sea perpetually stuck in the late 18th century where telegrams and railroads are the most advanced technology. Paradise. Not some steam punk tardopolis, more like an infinite western. Manifest destiny in perpetuity.
>>70959573
gardener must be a comfy job
>>70959615
Do you understand what manifest destiny is?
>>70959671
"landscape artist" is a comfy job. That's what all the rich white women and gay people do these days, instead of being interior decorators. Gardening is the opposite of comfy, spending your days digging, often on your knees, and clipping trees in the heat, getting a stern word from the master if you don't water the grass enough or fuck up "his" flowerbed.
>>70958259
>Frodo's parents died in a boating accident
Oh well Mr. ME-ATF now there's no evidence whatsoever, What a shame.
>>70959736
He was lazy as fuck tho. Probably smoked his weed and did jack shit when Mr. Frodo wasn't looking.
>>70959700
he obviously does not.
But that would be beautiful.
>>70959772
>Sam
>Lazy
He's literally the only one of the hobbits who wasn't a lazy git and carried more than his fair share to spare the rest/Frodo.
>>70956387
That was fucking fantastic.
Thank you.
>>70954934
smoked weed EVERY day
>>70956000
oh god my balls
>>70959736
>implying spending your days with your hands in the dirty isn't satisfying as fuck
Hard work is tough but enjoyable, m8. What's wrong with men these days?
>>70960240
There's nothing comfy about fucking about in some rich fag's garden. It's a decent job, but it's not comfy.
Tending to your OWN garden can be comfy.
>>70959573
Yeah but it was only after it was given to Frodo that the ring started trying to go back to Sauron. Not to mention Frodo had to carry it right into Mordor while Bilbo lived peacefully with it in the Shire
>>70960240
This tbqh. In my teens I would take labouring jobs on building sites in the summer. There's nothing more satisfying than a bit of hard collar and then getting home and putting your feet up. Guys these days pack into gyms to look like Captain America, but ask them to sling heavy shit around for half an hour and they cry like little girls. God forbid they should get their moisturised hands dirty. The majority of modern men are effeminate as fuck, but due to shows like TOWIE and Jersey Shore, that's become an archetype for masculinity these days; ripped pussies with perfect skin, artificial tans, expensive haircuts and manicures.
>>70959906
The books show him undergo a considerable arc. At first he is shown to be pretty lazy, timid and totally overwhelmed, but by the end in Mordor he's conquering his fears and is saving Frodo left and right. He's damn near the real hero of the story, if one were to break it down that simply.
>>70960345
I'll give you that, actually.
>>70955618
Used to be a kingdom called arnor. Sibling kingdom to gondor. Then the witch king btfod them
>>70956229
>but I can't see it on there at all
Good.
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yxScJga.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
>>70959906
SHARE THE LOAD
Hobbits don't seem to have a very strong work ethic. How do they manage to live so luxuriously without toiling in the fields?
>>70956497
Peregrin
>>70956349
Sam just keeps getting more based
>>70961303
Same way people get rich in colombia.Pipeweed.
>>70961303
Not all Hobbits are living luxuriously in comfy burrows, mate. The ones we spend most of the time in the books and movies belong to either the Baggins, Took, or Brabdybuck families, their equivalent of the Rockefellers and Rotschilds. Middle class hobbits live in normal houses, and the poor ones literally live in holes.
>>70954934
trust fund orphan
>>70955234
gr8 b8 m7
>>70956632
arnor, not gondor
>>70957275
He only claimed that he didn't write religious allegory, and even that wasn't true.
>>70957818
Sam wasn't an employee.
Frodo owned Sam.
>>70961835
>wu wuz hobbits
No.
>>70955006
Bilbo was filthy fucking rich even before the Smaug thing. He lived in a manison on the hill with many rooms and loads of food, while plebs lived in dirty holes under him.
>You will never be a baggins and live a comfy life of simple joys
>>70958329
Yeah, i bet he's a really cool guy. Over the garden wall was fantastic.
>>70962047
Going back to become landed gentry would pretty much be the only time getting stuck in the past would be neat.
The worst off you got was having to let your country estate and moving to your london house, or becoming a parson/officer.
is the first chapter of the hobbit an analogy to anal sex?
why wasn't this on the movie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y
>>70958158
The Shire did have one orc invasion. Merry's ancestor killed the chief.
>>70962621
>>70955234
>weed
ignorant bastards...
>>70962180
>Going back to become landed gentry would pretty much be the only time getting stuck in the past would be neat.
Right up until you realize there is no modern toiletry nor refrigeration
>>70956000
superb post
>>70956387
wow
>>70955618
It's not, you moron. You must be dumber than a tape measure.
>>70956277
Just bring your whistle.
>>70959573
but this was during the time sauron was weak
>>70963024
The landed gentry did have refrigeration. Some English toffs actually IMPORTED ice, if they weren't located in a place to stock up on good-quality ice during the winter. Pretty much every nice estate in England had an ice-house that they'd fill during the winter. They're partly the reason why so many people believe there were secret passageways in every monastery and estate, because they find an old doorframe leading to a hole, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and they let their mind run free.
And honestly, the only real difference as far as the toiletry goes is the fact that we've got nicer toilet paper today. You had servants to boil you a nice warm bath every day and you could have a servant tasked with just carrying out your pissbottles whenever you ring.
It's the food that'd be boring as shit, with less variation, shittier cooks and less spices than you'd find at your average supermarket today.
>>70963345
Id just cook food myself, but im pretty sure the ingredients were better then
Oh Sam
>>70961800
No, it was allegory in general. Being inspired by stuff that influenced his life is a different thing. Now think how many deities you can stick in the roles of the Ainur or how many mythical/historical figures are similar to the most famous Elves/Men.
>>70963345
Being a servant to a rich lord seems pretty similar to being the mother of an autistic NEET.
>>70961303
>Implying you can't do both
>>70963777
>a gentleman
>making his own meals
You'd be the laughing-stock of town!
And no, the ingredients weren't better. They were either the same quality, or worse.
so, Frodo didn't work?
>>70957456
>their lack of greed
You've never actually read the hobbit or LOTR have you?
The first half of FOTR is full of Hobbits trying to sniff out where Bilbo has his gold hidden and trying to steal shit from his house. Frodo needs to get Merry to throw some bitch with sticky fingers out of his house.
>>70962621
>Sam starts a Mordor Civil War
Is the shire a communist society? I can't remember any instances of money changing hands within Hobbiton at least.
How come Aragorn just walked into the wedding cake city and was gifted kinghood just like that? Why didn't he do it before? Did he know the other guy would be set on fire by Gandalf and jump from a height?
>>70964494
No. And Frodo sells Bagend to the Sackville Baginses
>>70954934
He was a NEET. Get fucked wagecucks.
>>70964508
Is this bait
>>70957229
N8 mate he just took "two small chests" remember? Still a shit ton of wealth for the shire though.
>>70964508
Because he united all the towns under siege and saved the city.
And he had that Elessar pendant too.
>>70958058
The rangers protected the Shire and closed the borders to any evil thing that tried to cross it. I'd say a few Elves probably kept an eye on it too.
Frodo wisely invested in the company that made Old Toby. He didn't need to worry about money afterwards.
>>70964736
I mean Bilbo
>>70960413
Physical labour might be fun when you do it as a young person for a summer job. It stops being so cool when you have to do it every day for 30 years and your back and knees hurt.
>>70959025
vape nation V/\
>>70964564
Also, Frodo bought a new house at the beginning of the quest, to pretend he was moving there and cover the fact he was leaving the Shire.
>>70964011
>giving a fuck about others opinions
Nobody criticises someone who does shit well in any case. Youd have a quaint hobby but isnt that the case with all gentlemen?
>>70964172
They werent greedy.
They jut like to steal shit. I agame
Remember when Sauron was defeated by a dog? They should make a movie about that.
>>70955314
Not the eagles man.
>>70956387
beautiful
>>70955314
>why
>>70958058
The dúnedain patrol the territory and keep anything evil at bay.
>>70956349
>not mentioning Broromir
>>70965328
Are you fucking daft?
>>70965328
he did, though
>>70965381
>deeper than classical hero archetype Aragorn
>portrays the corruptible side of a Men brilliantly
>stays true to his quest and sacrifices his life to keep the Fellowship going
Are you one of those people who only see "good" guys and "bad" guys?
>>70958329
I love his passion for b-horror movies but that's why he's an absolute faggot for ever thinking he could fill Joe Spinell's in his Maniac remake.
>>70965446
I'll ask again.
>>70955618
Its protected by elves, rangers, and has a bunch of old world magic (wrights ect) left over from anor. the shire is between The grey havens and rivendell. So its heavily guarded. Also barely anyone knows of it. The people of bree really only know of the hobbits that live over the river...
>>70955006
>What LOTR fails to really grasp is that Bilbo is filthy fucking rich after the whole Smaug thing.
How does it fail to grasp that?
Try to use words that you actually understand next time.
>>70964614
No he also picked up all the gold they found in the troll cave... which was all first age elvish gold/armor that he prob sold to the rangers and elves
>>70956387
based
>>70964305
he does that in the book actually, but its between the two factions of orcs: The orcs of the minos (spelling)morgul aMordor proper
>>70957802
DUDE PIPEWEED LMAO
>>70965446
>>70965328
Look again anon, look carefully.
>>70954934
He was basically an aristocrat, so nothing
>>70955234
wow i didn't know the elves had their own name for the shire
>>70966033
The elves have the canon names for stuff. When they speak, magic can happen, as shown by Saruman, when he summons the storm on the Misty Mountains (it is named Calacyria in Quenya, I think). All other tongues are lesser, subjective impure conceptualization of the world.
The real question is wtf did Saruman do? He somehow was just given one of the most fortified bases in all ME, in the one of the most crucial chokepoints in all the land. I mean before all the hobbit/lotr shit, i mean he was there for hundreds of years right? was he literally just smoking pipeweed and jacking off the whole time?
>>70966033
>Fat, stupid shirelard detected
Ofcourse you didn't know, your entire education system is a joke!
The world doesn't exist outside the shire, amirite?! Faggot.
Stay out of the mordor east. You are not qualified to be the world police. Everyone knows you're just blowing shit up and starting wars so you can get your hands on more of that precious pipeweed.
>>70955299
Destroy the ring you mean?
Because it corrupted him in the end, even Frodo, the purest NEET in the lands, got corrupted by evil in the end.
>>70966077
Caradhras, nigga.
>>70955299
underrated post
Do you think Bilbo and Frodo (along with half The Shire) had banged the bar wench that Sam married?
>>70966299
No chance at all, Rosie Cotton was a pure maiden waifu as with all women in Middle-Earth.
Nigga, this ain't Westeros.
>>70955993
Why did Sam want to help so much?should've made my Pepe's legs green desu
>>70965328
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJuZODnJQ8
