Frodo Baggins

plural Frodo Bagginses · alternative Frodo

1. A hero, especially one who seems small or unassuming or one who begins acting heroically later in life.

   The Frodo Baggins of our time, R2-D2 proved that even the smallest of us can change the world

   2018, George Beahm, The Military Science of Star Wars, Tor Publishing Group

   2 more examples

   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

   2008, 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008, Proceedings, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Kieran Conboy, Lorraine Morgan, Pekka Abrahamsson, Richard Baskerville, Xiaofeng Wang, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, page 183

   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.

   2019, David Gordon White, The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography, Princeton University Press, page 223