In Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, why does Frodo leave in the end??

Question

Everytime I watch this movie, I wonder it. And when I ask someone else they don't know either. Does anyone know? Thanks in advance. <3

Answer 1

because he wanted to. duh. p.s. i love you babah cakes.<3

Answer 2

Frodo left because his life was at it's end. The leaving represented a kind of 'dying', or an ending of this life (notice, Gandalf & Bilbo were there, and if you remember in the 2 Towers, Gandalf said he was sent back, but only until his task was completed. When the ring was destroyed, there was no more task, and so Gandalf made the trip along with Frodo. Frodo had to 'leave' mostly due to the wound he suffered when he was stabbed by the Witch King of Angmar in "The Fellowship of the Ring". Hope this helps answer your question!

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Answer 3

Symbolically, he had already become the Other by his exposure to the Ring and no longer really could belong in his world any longer--he had transcended it. There are certain possible theological overtones to this, at least of a Christian nature. You could argue that the world of the Shire represented Eden, and that by bearing the all-powerful Ring, Frodo had tasted of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and thus had to be expelled from the Garden. Also, of course, and rather obviously, Frodo metaphorically "died" for the sins of his world and had to depart it to go to his version of "heaven".

Answer 4

Frodo's departure was an allegory for death. He and Gandalf died and 'travelled' to the other side.

A thousand years ago the Vikings used to place their dead Chiefs on a viking ship, set it afire, and push it off to sea. J.J.R. Tolkein was a Norse Scholar at Oxford and heavily based his trilogy on Norse Mythology. He used the same device in The Return of the King as in a Viking Funeral that the ship was a vehicle for transport to 'other lands' even for the dead.

Frodo was going to Hobbit Heaven or the middle-earth equivalent to a heaven and the ship was symbolic of the trip the dead take to a new place.

Answer 5

Frodo went of to be with his Father Bilbo who was dying. Gandalf came back as a White wizard and his quest was to finish what he started and that was to hold the Fellowship together. Frodo all though his friends meant everything to him could not bere to lose Gandalf as a friend again therefore Frodo bestowed it on himself to remain with his best friend Gandalf and to be with his dying father.

Answer 6

I think it was because once he saw the world beyond the Shire, he had a taste for more adventures, or at least for more travel. He wanted to see more of the world he had helped to save.