Neither pet even needed to be in the book to begin with.
And they both just sort of vanish partway through except for a few offhand mentions, to boot (which honestly just makes me think of Embers, since something that really jumped out at me on my recent read/commentary of that fic was that it introduces tons of characters and then a lot of them just end up disappearing from the narrative without their arcs being resolved at all, or get demoted to recurring background characters at best).
The important difference here of course is that Frodo did not have any superpowers.
I mean, he had the Ring - but that comes with a whole laundry list of reasons why using it was a bad idea;). I was thinking less in terms of comparing the characters themselves and more in comparing the narrative perspective, admittedly.
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And they both just sort of vanish partway through except for a few offhand mentions, to boot (which honestly just makes me think of Embers, since something that really jumped out at me on my recent read/commentary of that fic was that it introduces tons of characters and then a lot of them just end up disappearing from the narrative without their arcs being resolved at all, or get demoted to recurring background characters at best).
The important difference here of course is that Frodo did not have any superpowers.
I mean, he had the Ring - but that comes with a whole laundry list of reasons why using it was a bad idea;). I was thinking less in terms of comparing the characters themselves and more in comparing the narrative perspective, admittedly.