OK, Frodo is Sam's Fellowship Focus, that's easy enough, but what about the others?

Oin you get Gloin, Bifur you get Bofur, one might assume. :-)

What about Fellowship Focus with Benefits (I know, that was bad, but it is Friday).

I would have thought that the whole Fellowship of the Ring had Frodo as a focus and Frodo, possibly, had Gandalf.

Gimli and Legolas may have been each others focus. They were closer than any dwarf or elf have even been.

Merry and Pippin were probably each others focus too.

Aragorn and Arwen had focus with benefits

If the Very Secret Diaries are accurate, Frodo was indeed the Fellowship with Benefits focus of the entire group.

Well, except for Legolas. Legolas was his own Fellowship focus. "Still the prettiest."

Poor old Frodo LOL

Here would be my guesses of Fellowship focii:

Frodo - Gandalf
Sam - Frodo
Gandalf - Frodo (assuming G wasn't an NPC)
Aragorn - Frodo
Boromir - Aragorn
Legolas - Gimli
Gimli - Legolas
Merry - Pippin
Pippin - Merry

I actually believe Aragorn was Legolas' focus. If you notice in the movies especially he always is quick to Aragorn's defense and is the most hurt when they thought Aragorn to be dead. There are lots and lots of scenes where Legolas seems focused on Aragorn...think of the Council of Elrond where he jumps to Aragorn's defense in proclaiming him Isildur's heir to Boromir.

I think Gimli's focus is Legolas.

I've been thinking about this one, and I think it would be missing a trick to have everyone designate a Fellowship Focus and stick with it forever.

Sure, it's strong to have people within the fellowship have a 'brotherly' connection, like Sam and Frodo -- or literally in the case of, say, Gloin and Oin. (But who'd want Ori, Dori and Nori to have to choose a favourite brother, cutting out the other one?!)

But if a Fellowship Focus is killed, do you take the 3 Shadow Points and never get a Fellowship Focus benefit again for the rest of your days? Or what if a player retires one PC to avoid Shadow and wheels out their younger sibling as a new PC? Or any other situation in which a PC leaves, or a new PC joins the group, or the fellowship splits into three separate strands in the second book of the 'trilogy'?

I think it's equally strong to let the dynamics within the fellowship develop and mature and have people shift their Fellowship Focusses, as long as it can remain amicable and no one's nose is going to be point out of joint at being 'abandoned'...

Cheers,
--Os.