I just started listening to book two though...

I said, near fatal.

I think there's one more. He was almost run through in the Orc cave, but the Mithril Shirt saved him.

Possibly a fourth at the end.

Knife wound from the Black Rider, spear thrust from the cave troll in Moria and Shelob's sting.

What do I win?

Why did he black out?

no weapons involved.

...which is why Frodo was afterwards known as Frodo Of The Nine Fingers.

Was that when Sam wouldn't give Frodo the ring?

who almost drowned. Frodo was in the boat.

But, upon rereading the text, I find that it played out differently onscreen. Does that still count?

although drowning was not the primary concern for it.

Damn. Frodo really got his ass kicked in. Poor little hobbit.

What about almost getting eaten/smothered by that tree?


It ain't easy being Frodo.

Sam was the one who almost drowned at the end of the second movie.

Still not sure if it counts, though.

Sword wound, Nazgil king
Pike wound, cave troll
Spider bite

Knifed by Black Rider
Speared by orc or troll in Moria
Bitten by Shelob
Bitten (finger) by Gollum

just curious

Frodo was also knocked unconscious and captured by the barrow-wights. It's not exactly a fatal wounding, but it's a potentially fatal situation if the hobbits weren't rescued by Tom Bombadil.

The same with Old Man Willow - but, that was potentially fatal to Merry & Pippin, not Frodo directly.