There still, he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart. Beside him stood Merry and Pippin, and they were silent. And Tolkein himself confirms this in his own private letters, where he makes it clear that Frodo and his friend Sam who is also eventually granted a place in Valinor would always be mere mortals and would eventually succumb to death even if they were to remain in The Undying Lands.
So there we have it, definitive proof from Tolkein himself that Frodo, and his other mortal counterparts, did eventually perish in The Undying Lands.
Many believe that due to the power and intensity of The Undying Lands, mortals such as Frodo and Bilbo would actually live a shorter life than the one they would have if they remained on Middle Earth. One thing we know for sure is that many years after Frodo arrives in the Undying Lands, his fellow ringbearer and best friend Sam is also granted a place in the guarded realm and is allowed to join Frodo in what must have been a very happy reunion.
How they eventually come to perish will remain a mystery, but due to the heavenly nature of Valinor, we can be pretty sure it was a peaceful death. Where Frodo went at the end of the Trilogy is no mystery. The injuries endured by Frodo Baggins Elijah Wood over the course of Lord of the Rings are why he chose to leave Middle-earth at the end of the trilogy. At the conclusion of the third and final film in the trilogy, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King , Frodo makes the fateful decision to leave his ancestral home for the legendary realm known as the Undying Lands.
In Return of the King , after the ring has been destroyed and Sauron defeated, Frodo returns to the Shire and gets a job as its Deputy Mayor. The ship leaves the Grey Havens and sets off for the Undying Lands, a special place outside of Middle-earth which is only welcome to immortals and Ring-bearers. This is how Frodo's journey finally ends , but why didn't he stay in the Shire with the other hobbits?
Frodo left Middle-earth because of what happened to him during Lord of the Rings. Several times throughout the trilogy, Sam and Frodo both are heard saying how they don't think there will be a return home journey. When Gollum says to Frodo at the entrance of Torech Ungol "go in or go back," Frodo says very distinctly that he "can't go back.
At the end of Return of the King , when the four hobbit friends are being honored for their journey, there is a heavy tone of sadness in Frodo's aura because although he is glad there is no longer a great evil threat lurking over Middle Earth, he wishes very badly that none of this had happened. He wishes he could have stayed innocent and naive. Frodo now understands what depths evil can reach, and he can never pretend to go back to being so ignorant. This is why Frodo—from the time the Ring is destroyed to the time where he steps onto the White Ship—has a fixed expression of sorrow upon his face.
Once he boards the ship, he turns around to his dear friends, and smiles. He is moving forward and has taken the first step to self-recovery. There is a significant shift in the atmosphere as Frodo leaves behind the past and heads off on a new journey where he can find his footing again.
Frodo goes to the Undying Lands with the elves. This line is identical in the book and the movie. According to The Lord of the Rings Wiki :. The ocean Belegaer separated the Undying Lands from the western shores of Middle-earth. Only immortals and ring-bearers were allowed to live in this realm. Frodo is tired. Frodo has been through the gauntlet and suffered tremendously. The elves offer him a reward for his bravery as ring bearer a reward also given to Bilbo, and later to Samwise.
Frodo explains his choice to Sam in the book The Return of the King :. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
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