Past Trauma Influencing Characters - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Keeper of Dol Guldur · 08-27-2003, 09:48 PM

I don't know why it wasn't obvious to begin with, but I realized the last time I read (and remembered yesterday after watching Fellowship EE) that when Sam almost drowned in the final chapter, what went through Frodo's mind must have been very, very heavy. Both his mother and father drowned, and now his best friend was going to unless he did something. Pulling a sinking hobbit from a river isn't exactly easy for another, so maybe this explains a severe adrenaline kick just in the nick of time.

08-27-2003, 09:48 PM	#1
Keeper of Dol Guldur Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 315, CNY Boys and girls. Posts: 405	Past Trauma Influencing Characters I don't know why it wasn't obvious to begin with, but I realized the last time I read (and remembered yesterday after watching Fellowship EE) that when Sam almost drowned in the final chapter, what went through Frodo's mind must have been very, very heavy. Both his mother and father drowned, and now his best friend was going to unless he did something. Pulling a sinking hobbit from a river isn't exactly easy for another, so maybe this explains a severe adrenaline kick just in the nick of time. __________________ "I come from yonder...Have you seen Baggins? Baggins has left, he is coming. He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold." - Khamul the Easterling