making an educated guess that Frodo would have had the same grandiose visions
before claiming the Ring as after, especially since Tolkien expressly compares
Frodo's visions to Sam's. Perhaps instead of the entire world as a
garden, the garden, and Sam tending it, would only be a small part of the
vision. The rest of the world might look much like the rest of the Shire,
with Frodo as landlord. Indeed Lotho Sackville-Baggins is a foil for
Frodo -- what Frodo might have been, had he
succumbed.
“I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.)” (From Tolkien Letter # 131.)
