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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
He was 12, and spent the next nine years with the Brandybucks at Brandy Hall.
Q 02At what age did Bilbo adopt Frodo and bring him to Bag End?
21
The two share a birthday, the 22nd of September.
Q 03What birthday do Frodo and Bilbo share?
22 September
The joint party opens The Lord of the Rings.
Q 04What was the name of the family Frodo lived with at Brandy Hall?
The Brandybucks
They were his mother's people; Merry is one of them.
Q 05For how many years does Frodo keep the Ring hidden before Gandalf reveals what it is?
17
It gave him the same youthful looks it had given Bilbo.
Q 06Which of Frodo's companions is his gardener?
Sam Gamgee
Sam is the only one to follow Frodo when the Fellowship breaks.
Q 07Who rescues the hobbits from Old Man Willow in the Old Forest?
Tom Bombadil
He rescues them again from the barrow-wight a few days later.
Q 08What creature puts the hobbits under a spell in the fog on the downs?
A barrow-wight
Frodo breaks free, attacks it and sings the rhyme that summons Bombadil.
Q 09Under what name does Frodo first meet Aragorn at the Prancing Pony?
Strider
The Ring slips onto Frodo's finger in the common room the same night.
Q 10Who stabs Frodo with a Morgul blade on Weathertop?
The Witch-king of Angmar
The wound would have turned him into a wraith had Elrond not healed him.
Q 11How many Nazgul attack the camp on Weathertop?
Five
Gandalf had drawn the other four northwards a few nights earlier.
Q 12Who heals Frodo's Weathertop wound?
Elrond
The shoulder still aches years later, each anniversary of the stabbing.
Q 13How many companions make up the Fellowship formed to help Frodo?
Nine
Four hobbits, two men, a wizard, an elf and a dwarf.
Q 14What sword does Bilbo give Frodo in Rivendell?
Q 21What stairway do Frodo and Sam climb to cross into Mordor?
The Endless Stair
It leads to the tunnel where Shelob waits.
Q 22What creature stings Frodo unconscious at the top of the pass?
Shelob
Sam drives her off with Sting and the Phial, and believing Frodo dead, takes the Ring.
Q 23What do Frodo and Sam wear for the final trek across Mordor?
Scavenged Orc-armour
Sam had rescued Frodo from the tower after overhearing orcs say he was alive.
Q 24What does Frodo do when he reaches the Cracks of Doom?
Sting
It came with a coat of mithril mail that soon saves Frodo's life.
Q 15What saves Frodo when an orc spears him in Moria?
His mithril shirt
Gimli later says the shirt was worth more than the whole Shire.
Q 16Whose light does the phial Galadriel gives Frodo carry?
Earendil's
It is the light of the Silmaril the mariner carries across the sky as a star.
Q 17Who tries to take the Ring from Frodo by force at Parth Galen?
Boromir
Frodo escapes by putting on the Ring, and the Fellowship breaks.
Q 18Above which impassable falls does the Fellowship break?
Rauros
The lawn of Parth Galen sits just above them on the Anduin.
Q 19Where does Frodo make Gollum promise to guide them after subduing him?
The Dead Marshes
Frodo pities him and spares his life, over Sam's misgivings.
Q 20Which captain of Gondor takes Frodo and Sam to a hidden cave in Ithilien?
Faramir
He makes Frodo lure Gollum into captivity, which Gollum counts as betrayal.
Claims the Ring for himself
Gollum then bites off his finger and falls into the fire with the Ring.
Q 25Who carries Frodo and Sam away from the erupting Mount Doom?
Great Eagles
The eruption destroys Mordor along with Sauron's power.
Q 26Who has taken over and industrialised the Shire when the hobbits return?
Saruman
Frodo lets him go even after he tries to stab him; Wormtongue kills him instead.
Q 27Who kills the fallen wizard after his attempt on Frodo's life at Bag End?
Grima Wormtongue
The henchman turns on his master at the door of Bag End.
Q 28How long after the Ring's destruction does Frodo sail for Valinor?
Two years
Bilbo goes with him as a fellow Ring-bearer.
Q 29What does Frodo's name mean, from the Old English Froda?
Wise by experience
Tom Shippey links it to the legendary peaceful king Frodi and his magic mill.
Q 30What was Frodo's name in Tolkien's early drafts of the first chapter?
Bingo
He was first Bingo, son of Bilbo, then Bingo Bolger-Baggins, son of Rollo Bolger.