This has seen him pelted with motor oil, covered in rubbish, and smeared with possum fat in the line of duty.īreen has been involved in shootouts, foot chases, car chases, boat chases and hot air balloon chases. Breen is deathly afraid of spiders and distrustful of clowns, actors, steampunks, homeopaths, naturists, circus strongmen, beekeepers and hippies.Īs the lowest ranking detective in the Brokenwood CIB, Breen is often sent to follow up the leads nobody else wants. He likes Xbox, ice cream, rugby, and shiny suits from Barkers. My advice for surviving there: don’t join any clubs. I’m going to miss Brokenwood, a bucolic small town with an undefined, changeable topography and an eye-watering murder rate, a great deal. If you’re a fan – spoiler alert – Detective Constable Sam Breen is leaving this season. If you haven’t heard of it, The Brokenwood Mysteries is a Kiwi murder mystery show, and it’s quite good. And I hope you, reader, if you got to this part, find peace, belonging, and a sense of home.Nic Sampson has played beloved detective constable Sam Breen on The Brokenwood Mysteries for seven seasons, but it’s time to say goodbye.ĭue to a little incident called the global pandemic, I had to leave The Brokenwood Mysteries this season for the green pastures of my new home in the UK. I know he's fictional, but I hope Frodo found peace across the seas. Selling Bagend was Frodo's first sacrifice, and the inability to come home was his last. Frodo did, because he knew that by leaving home, home no longer would exist. Bilbo didn't sell Bagend because he left home for adventure. Contrast this with Bilbo who came home wealthy and stayed until 111. Ultimately, he was right, even though he physically could return home, the trauma of war indelibly destroyed his psyche and his heart never came home. He knew there was a chance he might not come home. So too, Frodo anticipated he'd be changed by his journey. While the soldier might not know the extent of the trauma, they know it's likely.
The soldier knows they are going to risk being hurt, wounded, or even die. Perhaps this echoes Tolkien's experience going to war. Sam, on the other hand, was able to truly reject the temptation of the ring. I think Frodo or the author wanted to show that Frodo knew he would have to sacrifice everything to save a world, and through the saving lose his place in it. Whether Frodo knew that, or it was foreshadowing, I don't know. Selling Bagend was an acknowledgement of that. Frodo was never ever, not from the start, going to be able to occupy the world he helped to save. The ring destroyed everything that Frodo held dear. It was only Gollum, and the fight with Gollum that caused the ring to destroy itself. Frodo gave everything of who he was to try and save the world. Even from the beginning, Frodo knew that the journey he would take meant that he would be sacrificing himself for the world. It seems weird and forced.įor the same reason the Frodo can't settle down and have a happy ending. It obviously works well in his character arc, I just don't think I was really sold on it making sense in the story.
Please enlighten me, because it really bothers me.Įdit: I should clarify, I mean "why" in-world. Why make his last major action in the Shire making sure the Sackville-Bagginses finally get Bag End? It would have made more sense to spend time on a detailed will, if death is the concern.
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That chat, plus the sale, could be read as Frodo preparing for the worst, but then why sell Bag End for money? He didn't bring much money on his journey. I go to lose one (treasure), and not return, as far as I can see." Gandalf reassures him that this may well not be the case, and no other text suggests Frodo thinks is a suicide mission. There's nothing to suggest that his journey is going to be one-way except when Frodo muses, "What's to be my quest?. Tolkien makes sure we know that Frodo's part in the journey may be as little as getting the ring to Rivendell. That would also have been enough to throw the Black Riders off the trail a bit. He could have just as easily claimed to be going home to Buckland to visit for a season.
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