ring-bearer

I am a friend of all enemies of the One Enemy

[alightindarkplaces]

Independent and highly selective Frodo Baggins. Book canon with additional headcanon. Tentatively open to multifandom & OCs. Open to occasional crack. Proship. Drama free. Generally untagged triggers; violence, suicidal ideation, dubious situations, dark themes, consensual cousincest, & profound age-gap relationships

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affiliates; @tidalhaired, @saltuary

[alightindarkplaces]

To carry on without hope. To endure beyond endurance. To persist purely for the sake of persistence; because to do anything less would be the death of his spirit more truly than any other somber fate.

It is a grim resolve beyond hope or expectation.

[alightindarkplaces]

I return here and read our old threads, but I doubt I will reply to anything any time soon, or ever at all. More and more, I am overtaken by a feeling of completion - that I have done what I came here to do, and anything more would be pointless at best, and a frail imitation at worst.

I remain available for questions and comments, especially to those sincerely interested in my interpretation of Frodo, but I will not be here in the same capacity as I was.

[alightindarkplaces]

Frodo's way of loving people is very reserved and respectful, distant even. He will love from afar and never move to bridge the gap, at least not until pressed. Even if he has developed a strong connection, he will still keep some distance. It is a way for him to maintain some control over a situation beyond his grasp, for love is as treacherous as it is sacred. Love has the power to harm as much as heal, and he is afraid to do harm or be harmed. So he ends up in these little dances with those he loves, flitting just out of reach, coming close only in fleeting moments of vulnerability. He does not desire to need or be needed by anyone, but he is lonely at times. As comfortable as he is with himself and his solitude, he does still long for touch, and the comfort of another warm body next to his. It's hard to always bear the burden of his own sorrows, but it's harder still to let anyone in. He can't stand the thought of burdening others with the dark corners of his own heart

[alightindarkplaces]

remembering that time Frodo yelled at Smeagol but then had to come back more gently because Smeagol just devolved into cowering and muttering

[vildo]

Which leaves Sauron nine fingers, the exact same number as the Nazgûl, to extend his reach

[alightindarkplaces]

You left out Frodo's reply, "What does he not hate?"

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[alightindarkplaces]

Thither, eastward, unwilling his eye was drawn. It passed the ruined bridges of Osgiliath, the grinning gates of Minas Morgul, and the haunted mountains, and it looked upon Gorgoroth, the valley of terror in the Land of Mordor. Darkness lay there under the Sun. Fire glowed amid the smoke. Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising. Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him.

And suddenly he felt the Eye. There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. It leaped towards him; almost like a finger he felt it, searching for him. Very soon it would nail him down, know just exactly where he was. Amon Lhaw it touched. It glanced upon Tol Brandir - he threw himself from the seat, crouching, covering his head with his grey hood.

He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell.

[alightindarkplaces]

Also, if you think about it in terms of the multiverse, the canon ending is one of the rare ones. Most of the time, Sauron probably gets the Ring one way or another.

[alightindarkplaces]

Things would not have gone well if Faramir had gone to the council instead of Boromir. If he had, he would not have been there when Frodo and Sam were found in Ithilian, and I don't think there is any other man alive in Gondor who would have chosen to let them go...

[saltuary]

Faramir held him more closely then, a gesture that was neither pity nor obligation, but tender as snowfall over broken ground.  He bowed his head, and nothing.  He did not need Frodo’s words to know the weight he carried.

Many times, grief was rendered in language that failed to hold it.  Names recited in funeral dirges.  Letters sent into silence.  Words, always words, but the dead could not answer.  It was left to the living to try, always try, to speak into the chasm where love had once been received and returned.

He looked past Frodo, to the carved arch of the doorway, to the heatless light upon the stone.  The air smelled faintly of cold iron and dried lavender.  Bouquets nailed into lintel – already grey, already crumbling.

Sometimes love was the body beside one’s own in a chamber of the dead, breath warming grief-wrung skin, fingers laced not out of lust but out of longing not to be left alone.  His palm moved up to cradle Frodo’s head.  Fingers slipped into his hair – mussed, soft with sunlight and salt – and he arranged the curls gently, not to neaten, but to know them.

[alightindarkplaces]

A sigh as soft as spring slipped past Frodo's guarded lips and left him feeling cold. Deep was the wound left in Boromir's absence, as large as his presence, and as potent as the love seen only in hindsight. Faramir's touch was the only warmth he could feel, so Frodo pressed ever closer, driven by a quiet desperation for anything that might resemble wholeness.

He spoke, trembling, into the darkness where his face was buried against the rich fabric of Faramir's tunic, just below his waist. The left hand gripped with desperate affection at the small of his back, while the right remained clutched close to his own chest, shielding the still-tender wound and the loss that came with it. "I would tell him," he began in a shaky voice, "It was not his fault- and I do not blame him... I never have..."

[alightindarkplaces]

I wish to see more artisits depict Frodo with an ass...

[alightindarkplaces]

Frodo is very much not wife material (unlike Sam or Faramir.) He's a heartbreaker, he's a slut, he never does the dishes, or the laundry, he's not skilled in any craft besides writing, he's not at all nurturing or doting or delicate in any notable way... He's not really husband material either, tbf, but he does kinda have that distant father figure smoking his pipe by the fire aesthetic going on.

[alightindarkplaces]

Just going to point it out here (and someone find me a quote and correct me if I'm wrong,) but to my knowledge and memory, Tolkien never said Hobbits have large feet- only that they have thick soles and wooly hair like that on their heads.

[alightindarkplaces]

The fact that Frodo is trans is not a throwaway fact, nor something I want to be ignored... Of course, it won't generally come up in the course of your everyday interactions, and there are many who would be unphased or unconcerned, but I want to encourage those with a muse who would notice/care/disagree/find comfort in this fact, to speak up and let it become part of the interaction.

He is not the most "passing" individual, though I can say from personal experience that it matters less how you look or sound than how you dress and present yourself, but it's very possible for your muse to clock him, if they are the sort who would. And of course, if things get spicy, there is really no hiding the fact of his biology, and yes, Frodo would let you get to third base and find out the exciting way, though I don't recommend anyone do that in real life, since it can be unfortunately dangerous... Having been extremely sheltered, Frodo doesn't consider it a risk.

All this to say; don't feel like you have to ignore the transness, embrace it. I really want to do more with other characters reactions and I would absolutely welcome conflict or even outright transphobia, though I understand there's probably not too many people willing or wanting to write it. But just in case ...

[saltuary]

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