And yet they're surrounded by the last king of men (aragorn), a low level god (gandalf), a prince of elves (legolas), a prince of dwarves (gimli), and next in l

And yet they're surrounded by the last king of men (aragorn), a low level god (gandalf), a prince of elves (legolas), a prince of dwarves (gimli), and next in line to rule the biggest kingdom of men (boromir). Even after that, I'd argue that Frodo is only made interested through his posession of the one ring, not anything about himself. Sam is probably the only really interesting 'normal guy' in the story, and its only because he gets to tag along with the godly guys.