In "The Two Towers" movie, the newly tamed Gollum leads Frodo and Sam in their last push toward Mordor, a journey that involves crossing a sprawling, swampy area called the Dead Marshes.

The Lord of the Rings featured many trials for the Fellowship and Gandalf may have kept one crucial secret to try and save them from one of the worst.

You can find more detail about that in the essay. But here, I would like to focus on one character I didn’t explicitly discuss there: Frodo Baggins, the hobbit entrusted with the One Ring and ...