His servant Sam sets out to take care of his beloved master, and rises through the privations of the quest to destroy the Ring to become heroic. Frodo is an unheroic, home-loving Hobbit who has heroism thrust upon him when he learns that the ring he has inherited from his cousin Bilbo is the One Ring that would enable the Dark Lord Sauron to dominate the whole of Middle-earth. Aragorn is the man born to be a hero, of a line of kings he emerges from the wilds and is uniformly bold and restrained. Tolkien's presentation of heroism in The Lord of the Rings is based on medieval tradition, but modifies it, as there is no single hero but a combination of heroes with contrasting attributes. Bilbo lost his immortality but likely saved his soul, while Gollum wasn't just going to fade away.Theme of heroism in J. The seeming discrepancy lies within those particulars.
That would move him far closer to the shadow realm than Bilbo: essentially immortal but not yet permanently enslaved to Sauron's will. He obsessed about it constantly and was prepared to go to any length to get it back. It was key to his survival in the Misty Mountains, where he would hunt goblins for food and otherwise need to avoid attention. Gollum, conversely, used the Ring copiously and often for centuries. That left him comparatively untouched by the Ring's influence, though it exacted a price as his true age caught up to him at last when he finally, reluctantly surrendered it. He pulled it out only when he wished to avoid someone - notably his sour relations, the Sackville-Baggins - or to play a prank as he did during his birthday party at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Bilbo didn't use the Ring very often.
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