Frodo Baggins

English Alternative forms Frodo Etymology From the character in the Lord of the Rings series. Noun A hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life. en For instance, in the Wallabiez team in Sinapsi (Milan) a big visible chart is used, where every day a different person is nominated the "Frodo of the Pomodoro", i.e. the bearer of the timer who is responsible for loading it and tracking: this allowed to the team to realize they were much less productive after lunch, so they started to colour the morning pomodori differently, so to make the problem visible 183 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Agile_Processes_in_Software_Engineering/ZUj58wzLtkUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+frodo+of%22+-%22lord+of+the+rings%22+-tolkien&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008, Proceedings 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg Brian Fitzgerald, Kieran Conboy, Lorraine Morgan, Pekka Abrahamsson, Richard Baskerville, Xiaofeng Wang en It is my belief that Krishnamacharya did eventually train his massive intellect upon the Yoga Sutra, and that the highly sophisticated "Vine" did originate with him—but that he did not come to Patanjali's work until relatively late in life, during his Chennai years; that is, at about the same time as his former pupil (and prime contender in terms of legacy) B.K.S. Iyengar. I seriously doubt, how-ever, that he was ever the Frodo Baggins of modern Yoga that his biographers have made him out to be. 223 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Yoga_Sutra_of_Patanjali/IcmXDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+frodo+baggins+of%22+-%22lord+of+the+rings%22+-tolkien+-gandalf+-bilbo&pg=PA223&printsec=frontcover Princeton University Press The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography David Gordon White 2019 en The Frodo Baggins of our time, R2-D2 proved that even the smallest of us can change the world https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Military_Science_of_Star_Wars/2e4yDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+frodo+baggins+of%22+-%22lord+of+the+rings%22+-tolkien+-gandalf+-bilbo&pg=PP21&printsec=frontcover Tor Publishing Group The Military Science of Star Wars George Beahm 2018 en terms derived from fiction terms derived from Tolkien's legendarium eponyms en Fictional characters