Frodo left it to his best friend Sam before he left to leave with the elves.
The change from a tenth century hero to a modern hero in pieces of literary was one who was the strongest, smartest, best fighter, and compassionate to his people to a hero who is much meeker, compassionate, caring, empathetic, has others help when it is needed, and tries to help his friends when they needed it. The change in a hero from the tenth century to a more modern hero does show a change in our humanity. These works of literary reflect the values that their society holds. I feel that with the changes of the heroes in these two stories do reflect an improvement in our humanity. In Beowulf the only way you could have any type of glory was that when you killed someone, in The of Lord the Rings you just have to be well known or have a great destiny that was fated to them. The next thing is that Frodo can empathy with other characters as opposed to Beowulf who really does not empathy with others. Women have a little more value in the modern hero's story, they have names, play a role in the story, and somewhat independent. . Beowulf on the other hand did not treat women with respect, most of the female