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Frodo Baggins was every mother's dream hobbit. A small quiet lad with large eyes and curly black hair, and a sweetness to his demeanor that made adults and children alike trust him. In the early years of his life, Frodo seemed like the perfect hobbit -- he had looks, wealth, social standing and a wide range of eccentric feriends from Dwarves, Elves and Men.
Frodo was born to two middle-class hobbits in the idyllic Shire. Drogo Baggins was one of the respectable Baggins family, while his mother was the social butterfly Primula Brandybuck. Primula often left young Frodo alone while she went on wild romps with the Elves in the forests of the Shire. This lack of responsibility angered Drogo, prompting many angry fights between the two while young Frodo cried in his room.
How this marital struggle affected young Frodo is not entirely known, but it seems to have jaded him beyond his years when it came to women. In the years that followed he would pursue many loveless, lust-inspired liaisons with hobbits, human women, and Elf maidens. His abandonment by his flighty mother seems to have left him in constant pursuit of female affection. A further shock was the death of his parents in a boating accident, where Primula angrily pushed her husband over the side and he grabbed her as he went down.
"I kept asking him how he felt about his parents," said Frodo's cousin Peregrin Took, a close friend to the young heir. "But he'd be just saying, 'Oh yeah, my parents, sure.' He didn't seem to care. Of course, he'd been adopted by Bilbo then, so maybe he didn't care anymore. He didn't talk about it, that's for sure!"
Bilbo Baggins was a wealthy, eccentric relative of Frodo's, who took pity on the orphaned boy. Without any children of his own and no intention to marry, Bilbo doted on his adolescent nephew and spoiled him relentlessly. "Frodo could be a real bastard, that's all I have to say," Bilbo's gardener commented. "My Sam would follow him anywhere, but Frodo was a real manipulative little bastard. He'd look at you all sad and sorry with those eyes, and you'd do anything he wanted."
Understandably, Frodo was dismayed when Bilbo vanished on his eleventy-first birthday. But upon finding that Bilbo had left all his possessions to his nephew, Frodo settled happily into his new role as the Shire's most eligible bachelor. He often used his uncle's golden Ring, which made its wearer invisible, to sneak up on young hobbit girls and kiss them before whisking them back to his bachelor lovenest, Bag End. "They thought it was great to be sleeping with a guy who could become invisible," said Frodo's cousin Meriadoc Brandybuck. "It added an edge of danger. I always asked if I could borrow it for my dates, but he got very possessive of it. Later on I found out why, and it wasn't just his ego!"
However, when Gandalf the Grey appeared and informed Frodo that his Ring was the Ring of Power, Frodo was shocked. He followed Gandalf's instructions to take the Ring to Bree, where he met the Ranger Aragorn and followed Aragorn to Rivendell. However, Frodo was attacked by the Nazgul along the way, and though the injury was not fatal, it threatened to turn Frodo into a wraith. "He looked awful," Merry said. "He was turning green, throwing up and making these weird gagging noises. It made ME sick just looking at him."
Frodo was rescued by the Elf princess Arwen, who rode all the way to Rivendell with Frodo on her horse Asfaloth, avoiding Black Riders. And though the One Ring did not tempt Arwen, certain other things did. "He was just SO little and sexy," she was later heard to gush to her close friend Galadriel. "He turned me on SO much when we were escaping from the Black Riders. After my dad healed him, I remember I looked at him in that giant bed, and I thought, oh boy, I could dump Aragorn for HIM!" Arwen had recently become engaged to the Ranger, but Frodo had the inexplicable draw of the Ringbearer.
"I'm not saying they had an affair," Elven Prince Legolas said in an exclusive interview. "I mean, I once went out with Arwen -- she was kinda chilly, if you know what I mean. But right after I got to Rivendell I saw Frodo coming out of her bower, with his hair standing on end and... well, let me put it this way: He was wearing the Ring, and not much else. And he showed up at dinner that night with a T-shirt that said 'Elves Do It Eternally.'"