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* [[The Corruption]]: One of the major themes of the story.
* [[Determinator]]
* [[The Hero]]
* [[Hidden Depths]]: This applies to all the hobbits. Frodo in particular is very well educated.
* [[Hitchhiker Heroes]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]▼
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
▲* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Laments that he wished the Ring had never come to him at one point (before he's anywhere near his darkest hour), [[Discussed Trope|prompting Gandalf to respond that all who live to see such times wish this]], and that all he has to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to him.
* [[The Messiah]]: Shares this role with Aragorn.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His parents drowned in the Brandywine River.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]:
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Frodo represents the Ego
* [[Pretty Boy]]: For the movies at least, he's young and beautiful; in the books, hobbits are more friendly-looking than handsome.
* [[The Quest]]
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Did a hobbit just kick the crap out of a [[Giant Spider]]? [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Hell yes.]]
* [[The Everyman]]
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Sam uses this to whack some goblins in Moria.
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Married]]}}: At the very end.
* [[Hidden Depths]]
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
* [[Honor Before Reason]]▼
* [[Hollywood Pudgy]]: Sure he's heavier than the skinny waif that is Frodo, but he's hardly as fat as Gollum says.
▲* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Just about the only character in the story who the Ring cannot tempt.
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** [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Samwise represents the Superego.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Went from a timid gardener who had never wandered further than a few miles from home to maiming giant spiders and beating orcs in a fight.▼
** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"▼
* [[The Reliable One]]
* [[Sidekick]]: [[Breakout Character|Ascended]] to hero.
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* [[Tender Tears]]: More prominent in the movie adaptation, though.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]
▲* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Went from a timid gardener who had never wandered further than a few miles from home to maiming giant spiders and beating orcs in a fight.
▲** Lampshaded when he's beating up goblins with a frying pan in Moria, about halfway between the two: "I think I'm getting the hang of this!"
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Sam almost defines this trope.
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* [[Foil]]
** [[Shadow Archetype]]: Gollum is a shadow to both Bilbo and Frodo. He is to some extent a shadow to Sam.
* [[Gollum Made Me Do It]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]
* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]▼
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]▼
* [[Heel Face Door Slam]]
▲* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Possibly]].
▲* [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]
* [[Iconic Characters]]: Even people who haven't seen the book or film are familiar with Gollum, if only through [[Popcultural Osmosis]] or his role as childhood [[Nightmare Fuel]] in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.
* [[I'm Melting]]
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* [[Monster Sob Story]]
* [[Not So Different]]: From a hobbit once, or from Frodo under the power of the Ring.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: Gollum represents the Id.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Five Hundred Years Old]]
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: In the Jackson films, Sam never completely trusts him even when he's loyal to Frodo. [[Properly Paranoid|When he begins plotting in earnest, though]]...
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