While I was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, one of the themes that I noticed was about strength coming from small places, which was demonstrated through the Hobbits: Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. It was very clear to me that the books would have had a drastically different ending without them. Over the course of a few more posts, I will demonstrate how each of the four Hobbits played a part in the defeat of Sauron. Frodo Frodo Baggins, son of Drogo Baggins, was a Hobbit who lived in the Shire during the Third Age. When his family drowned in a boating accident, he was adopted by his uncle, Bilbo. When Frodo was fifty, Gandalf the Grey, one of the five Wizards, told him that a mysterious ring which he inherited from Bilbo was forged by Sauron during the Second Age, and would would give him power over the other nineteen rings forged during that period. Meanwhile, the Nazgul, nine servants of Sauron, were hunting Frodo to take the R...
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