‘Star Wars’ and ‘Harry Potter’ are two franchises that try to claim, textually, that it doesn’t really matter who your family is whilst showing subtextually that it unequivocally does matter who your family is.
isn’t that basically the same as all movies that insist that strength and looks don’t matter, only what’s in your heart, then having characters with strength and looks save the day and also be the most morally virtuous.
Tolkien manages to kinda subvert this (at the same time as playing it absolutely straight with Aragorn). Frodo is a gentlehobbit but the Bagginses aren’t the most notable family even in somewhere as small as the Shire in pretty much any way (they’re neither Tooks nor Brandybucks); the only thing that stands out about the Bagginses is that one time Bilbo got embarrassed into going on an adventure because a wizard thought it could do him some good, and Sam is as ordinary a hobbit as they come
Frodo and Sam ultimately succeed entirely because Sauron is expecting a hero from a noble bloodline leading an army of thousands when he should have been expecting (relatively) ordinary people doing good because it needs to be done
