Frodo Baggins
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50 free Frodo Baggins trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Frodo Baggins is the most unheroic hero in fantasy, a hobbit who carries the most dangerous object in Middle-earth because nobody else should. Orphaned by a boating accident at 12, adopted by Bilbo at 21 and handed the One Ring on his cousin's eleventy-first birthday, he keeps it hidden for 17 years before the road to Mount Doom begins. These 50 questions cover the whole journey: Bombadil in the Old Forest, the barrow-wight, the Prancing Pony and a Ranger called Strider, the Morgul blade on Weathertop, the mithril shirt that turns an orc spear in Moria, Galadriel's phial, Boromir at Parth Galen, Faramir's cave, Shelob's tunnel and the finger Gollum bites off at the Cracks of Doom. Then the harder material: the Old English meaning of his name, the drafts in which he was called Bingo Bolger-Baggins, the poem Tolkien subtitled Frodos Dreme, the scholars who read him as a priestly Christ figure or a case of post-traumatic stress, the radio Frodo who later played Bilbo on film, and the audition tape Elijah Wood shot in costume. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01How did Frodo's parents, Drogo and Primula, die?
A boating accident
A boating accident. Both drowned on a river outing, and village gossip split on why: some blamed Drogo's weight for sinking the boat, others whispered that Primula pushed him in and he pulled her after him.
Q 02Frodo calls Bilbo his uncle, but how are the two actually related?
Cousins
Cousins. Bilbo was Frodo's first cousin once removed through his mother and second cousin once removed through his father; 'uncle' was a fond name for a relative 78 years older.
Q 03Frodo and Bilbo share a birthday, 22 September, which Tolkien fans now celebrate as what?
Hobbit Day
Hobbit Day. The American Tolkien Society proclaimed it in 1978, and some fans mark it by throwing hobbit-style parties or simply going barefoot.
Q 04Which family, his mother's kin, took in the orphaned Frodo before Bilbo adopted him?
The Brandybucks
The Brandybucks. Frodo grew up in their crowded ancestral hall, and the future Ring-bearer spent his boyhood there sneaking off to steal mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's fields.
Q 05How does Gandalf finally prove to Frodo that Bilbo's old ring is the One Ring?
Tosses it into the hearth
Tosses it into the hearth. Heat brings out a fiery inscription that Gandalf knew of only from Isildur's old account, and it ends the 17 years in which Frodo had kept the Ring hidden.
Q 06On Gandalf's advice, Frodo leaves the Shire using which false name?
Mr. Underhill
Mr. Underhill. The alias backfired at the inn in Bree, where a real Underhill family from nearby Staddle heard it and took the stranger for long-lost kin.
Q 07Who rescues the hobbits from Old Man Willow in the Old Forest?
Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil. He sings the tree to sleep, and at his house the Ring proves powerless over him: he slips it on without vanishing and can still see Frodo when Frodo wears it.
Q 08What creature traps Frodo and his friends under a spell in the fog on the downs?
A barrow-wight
A barrow-wight. Frodo wakes inside its burial mound to find his three friends laid out in white with a sword across their necks, and he hacks off the creature's hand to save them.
Q 09By what name do the people of Bree know Aragorn when Frodo first meets him?
Strider
Strider. Aragorn later took the Bree-folk's nickname, turned into Elvish as Telcontar, as the name of his royal house.
Q 10Who stabs Frodo with a Morgul blade on Weathertop?
The Witch-king of Angmar
The Witch-king of Angmar. His knife was made to break off in the wound, leaving a splinter that crept toward Frodo's heart and would have turned him into a wraith under the Nazgul's control.
Q 11The films give the ride to Arwen, but in the book whose horse carries the wounded Frodo to Rivendell?
Glorfindel
Glorfindel. The Elf-lord sets Frodo on his white horse Asfaloth and sends it on ahead, and the horse outruns the pursuit to carry him alone across the ford.
Q 12Who heals Frodo's Weathertop wound?
Elrond
Elrond. He found and removed the splinter of the blade, but the wound never fully healed: Frodo's shoulder still pained him years later, back home in the Shire.
Q 13The size of the Fellowship was fixed so that it would match the number of which group?
The Ringwraiths
The Ringwraiths. Nine walkers were set against the nine riders, and the last two places went only reluctantly to Merry and Pippin, who had been due to be sent home.
Q 21Frodo and Sam climb the Straight Stair and the Winding Stair to reach which pass into Mordor?
Cirith Ungol
Cirith Ungol. Gollum leads them up its two cliff stairways because the Black Gate is shut and guarded; the Endless Stair is a different climb, inside Moria.
Q 22Which creature poisons Frodo senseless at the top of the pass into Mordor?
Shelob
Shelob. Her venom has only paralysed him, so the orcs who carry Frodo off know he is alive, something his rescuer learns only after leaving him for dead and taking the Ring.
Q 23What do Frodo and Sam wear for the final trek across Mordor?
Scavenged Orc-armour
Scavenged Orc-armour. There was plenty lying about: Frodo's captors in the tower had fallen to fighting each other over his belongings, and Sam dressed him from what the dead left behind.
Q 14What sword does Bilbo give Frodo in Rivendell?
Sting
Sting. Bilbo gave the Elvish blade its name after using it to fight off the giant spiders of Mirkwood, and it glows blue whenever orcs are close.
Q 15What saves Frodo when an orc spears him in Moria?
His mithril shirt
His mithril shirt. The priceless mail had sat on loan in the Mathom-house, the Shire's museum for things no hobbit had a use for, until Bilbo reclaimed it and passed it on.
Q 16Whose light does the phial Galadriel gives Frodo carry?
Earendil's
Earendil's. Galadriel's fountain had caught the light of his star, the jewel he sails across the night sky, and she bottled that water as 'a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out'.
Q 17Who tries to take the Ring from Frodo by force at Parth Galen?
Boromir
Boromir. He repents almost at once, and soon afterwards is mortally wounded by orc arrows while defending Merry and Pippin, a last stand that redeems him.
Q 18Above which impassable falls does the Fellowship break?
Rauros
Rauros. Hours after the company scatters, the survivors lay a fallen comrade in an Elven boat and set it adrift toward the same falls as his funeral.
Q 19Which swamp does the captured Gollum lead Frodo across on the way to the Black Gate?
The Dead Marshes
The Dead Marshes. Pale faces of warriors who fell in a battle some three thousand years earlier still show in its pools, which is how the swamp got its name.
Q 20Frodo insists on calling Gollum by which older name, hoping to reach the creature he once was?
Smeagol
Smeagol. It was his name before he murdered Deagol for the Ring centuries earlier, and Frodo's kindness draws that gentler self back out for a while.
Q 24What does Frodo do when he reaches the Cracks of Doom?
Claims the Ring for himself
Claims the Ring for himself. Gollum then bites off his finger to seize it and, dancing with joy, topples into the fire, so the Ring is destroyed by an accident and not by anyone's will.
Q 25Who carries Frodo and Sam away from the erupting Mount Doom?
Great Eagles
Great Eagles. Gandalf rides to the rescue on Gwaihir, the Windlord who had already plucked the wizard off a mountain peak, and two more eagles lift the hobbits out of the lava.
Q 26Who has taken over and industrialised the Shire when the hobbits return?
Saruman
Saruman. Going by the name Sharkey, he has his ruffians cut down the trees and pull down old houses, with nothing left of his own powers but a persuasive voice.
Q 27Who kills the Shire's defeated usurper on the doorstep of Bag End, moments after Frodo spares his life?
Grima Wormtongue
Grima Wormtongue. Frodo had just offered him food, shelter and forgiveness, but one last kick from his master made the cringing servant snap and cut the old man's throat.
Q 28From which harbour does Frodo finally sail into the West, two years after the Ring is destroyed?
Grey Havens
Grey Havens. He boards an Elven ship there with Bilbo and Gandalf, granted passage as a Ring-bearer in the hope of healing hurts that would not mend at home.
Q 29What does Frodo's name mean, from the Old English Froda?
Wise by experience
Wise by experience. By the end Frodo takes no part in the fighting to free the Shire, and spends the battle stopping hobbits from killing ruffians who throw down their weapons.
Q 30What was Frodo's name in Tolkien's early drafts of the first chapter?
Bingo
Bingo. He began as Bilbo's son and then became Bingo Bolger-Baggins, in drafts where Aragorn was still a hobbit ranger in wooden shoes, nicknamed Trotter.