>>282928162
>They didn't.
Yes they did. Pic rel was a Japanese interview.
Fujimoto simply fucked up with her writing.
>Not for people who watched the films and it's the same exact situation.
Frodo is even more of a full-on protagonist in the movies, if only because a movie trilogy has less time to spare than a book.
People might say "Aragorn was the real hero" and maybe that's true to a degree because he had the biggest impact on the setting, but the PROTAGONIST was unambiguously Frodo and I have never seen anyone argue otherwise.