Curiously, Sean Astin is a full decade older than Elijah Wood despite the pair's on-screen parity. Although make-up and performance cover the difference quite nicely, the casting suggests Sam was meant to feel a little older than Frodo in the movies, altering their dynamic as Tolkien originally wrote it.
Frodo was born in 1368. When he sets off from the Shire on his journey, he is 50 years old. Samwise Gamgee was born in 1380, making him 12 years younger than Frodo. But it's possible they looked similar in age, since the ring keeps the bearer from aging.
After all, Sam's loyalty is partly a result of his servant status. Since Sam knows his place and has no ambition to rise socially, he never appears to envy Frodo's wealth or authority in the Shire. In fact, it's quite the opposite: Sam loves and admires his master, as though Frodo's honor reflects well on Sam himself.
Because of the power of the Ring (which he inherited from Bilbo on his 33rd birthday), Frodo's physical aging appeared to stop (at least outwardly).
Ok so I did some math today and figured that since a Hobbit is an adult at 33, if we equate this to the human adult age of 18, one human year of aging is equivalent to about 1.83 hobbit years. So at the time of LOTR, Frodo as a hobbit would be 51, but as a human would be 27.9 years old.
Gandalf's age is impossible to determine, but he's likely existed for at least 10,000 years, making him much older than Legolas.
Frodo came of age as Bilbo left the Shire. Frodo inherited Bag End and Bilbo's ring. Gandalf, uncertain about the origin of the ring, warned Frodo to avoid using it and to keep it secret. Frodo kept it hidden for the next seventeen years, and it gave him the same longevity it had given Bilbo.
The Ring extended the life of a mortal possessor indefinitely, preventing natural aging. Gandalf explained that it did not grant new life, but that the possessor merely continued until life became unbearably wearisome.
He had already celebrated his 131st birthday, becoming the oldest Hobbit in the history of Middle-earth. As a mortal, he died in the West. While sailing west, Bilbo composed a last poem looking back on Middle-earth in farewell.
The name Frodo Baggins is an English translation of his Westron name Maura Labingi. The name Maura has the element maur- (wise, experienced), which Tolkien equated to the Germanic element frod- of the same meaning.
They kiss at least four times; another time, it's specified that they don't kiss, which has interesting implications. And when they return to the Shire, Sam moves into Bag End with Frodo — no longer a servant, but an equal and a constant companion.
The burden of the Ring so affected Frodo that he knew he could never return to a normal life or bear the responsibility of a wife and family.
After his wife died in Fo. A. 61, on 22 September Sam left Bag End, and went to the Tower Hills where he was last seen by Elanor, entrusting to her the Red Book; according to her, he went to the Grey Havens to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.
He died at the age of 210, after 122 years as king. The graves of the hobbits Merry and Pippin (who had died in Gondor 58 years earlier) were set beside his. He was succeeded on the throne by his son, Eldarion. Arwen, heartbroken by the loss of her husband, died shortly afterwards in Lothlórien.
In the second book, Sam does say he loves Frodo. To quote Goodreads: Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger.
Legolas was portrayed by Orlando Bloom. In the "official movie guide" for The Lord of the Rings, a birthdate for Legolas is set to 87 of the Third Age. This would make him 2931 years old at the time of the War of the Ring.
The ages of his characters differ wildly; Gollum is almost 600 years old, while Elrond, the elf, is several thousand years old, and Gandalf the Grey – and later the White – is immortal (for display reasons, both are thus not mentioned here).
His life extended far beyond his nature, by the effects of possessing the One Ring. Sméagol was about 589 years old when he died, a remarkable age for a creature that was once a Hobbit, but he had been deformed and twisted in body and mind by the corruption of the Ring.
The theme of addiction to power in The Lord of the Rings is central, as the Ring, made by the Dark Lord Sauron to enable him to take over the whole of Middle-earth, progressively corrupts the mind of its owner to use the Ring for evil.
Elves were immortal, so the prospect of extended lifespan meant little to them, and with their own magic, they proved more resistant to the One Ring than Men or Dwarves. But even they weren't immune.
In the spiritual world, beings are invisible to those in the physical world. This is why Isildur, Bilbo, and Frodo become invisible when they wear the Ring—because they are no longer in the physical world. As Olsen said, Sauron does not have a real body, so he is not affected in the same way.
The reasons for the Elves inviting him are clear given his destruction of the One Ring and Sauron, but Frodo's reasons for accepting are less so. Ultimately, it was the injuries that the ring-bearer Frodo endured on his journey that pushed him to leave Middle-earth.
Even if Sam had somehow managed to get it away from his master, the Ring would have fought with all its power to influence him away from destroying it. In the end, the only way the Ring could have been destroyed is if the person holding it unintentionally fell in.
Coming to his senses, Bilbo admits that the ring has been troubling him, and leaves it behind for Frodo as he departs for Rivendell. Over the next 17 years, Gandalf travels extensively, searching for answers on the ring. He finds some answers in Isildur's scroll, in the archives of Minas Tirith.