Slammed prime Hobbitussy
That’s gotta be a brand new sentence
No one wanted to think about it given the amount of ill placed hair hobbits have.
Ok, I’ll bite: WOMEN ALSO HAVE HAIR THERE.
No sir, I imagine all alpaca sweaters sleeve pulled inside out and rumpled up.
Maybe something like a thneed.
I was going to make a muff joke but that might date me.
You haven’t ever tried VICUÑA have you?
With balls that big, I’m surprised he didn’t have 20 children at one go.
The reason Sam could give up One Ring was because he wanted nothing more than a small garden to tend to. He never desired anything more. Hence, The Ring couldn’t tempt him.
Edit: To clarify, Sam never attempted to steal The Ring from Frodo. That is because Sam could resist the temptation of the ring because of his simple desires.
I thought it was cuz he never directly carried it, at least not for long. If The Ring couldn’t tempt him, why couldn’t he be the one to carry it instead of Frodo?
I think Sam wouldn’t have the conviction to get things done. He wasn’t the one who stood up and accepted the ring at the council. Sam was loyal and didn’t have lofty desires, but he didn’t have the spirit of adventure and perseverance that Frodo had. He was the perfect ally to help Frodo, but he wouldn’t have made a good Ring bearer himself.
sams greatest threat is gollum and frodo’s greatest threat is everything else.
Right he was too high a power level and just couldn’t take this boring adventure seriously when there was strawberries he could be growing.
Happy to help out his friend though.
The lost son of Bombadil
Unless Tolkien addressed this in one of his letters (I really wouldn’t be surprised), we don’t know for sure, but my guess would be that Sam’s resistance was mostly temporary. He could carry it for a short while without succumbing, and he could be around frodo for the whole journey with no issue, but he’d have eventually succumb to it.
Also worth noting that it’s heavily implied that the whole thing was predestined by Eru, and so with that in mind, it makes perfect sense that Frodo carries it instead of Sam, because
A) if Sam carried it, it’s unlikely he would have trusted Gollem, and his “help” was required in several ways to get the job done
B) Frodo being the carrier + Sam as his sole ally, while not intended by the council of Elrond, turned out to be a formidable match, thanks to Sam’s resistance to the ring and his loyalty to Frodo. Idk if when push came to shove, Frodo would have been quite as loyal to Sam as Sam was to Frodo (not with the ring doing it’s thing afterall.
Its also worth noting that Tolkien had some kinda weird views about the whole “servant & landed gentry” dynamics, as can be seen in just about every dialogue between Sam and Frodo lol - Sam being the effective leader, despite being a humble gardener and Frodo being basically a Lord in hobbit terms isn’t something Tolkien was likely to write
I like this idea. Is it canonical?
Not entirely. Sam was tempted, and if he possessed the ring long enough he would have been overcome like any other, but his Hobbit-sense saved him in that one small moment:
"“As he stood there, even though the Ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck, he felt himself enlarged, as if he were robed in a huge distorted shadow of himself, and vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor…”
"Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur… He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be. "
"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command. "
Thank you very much for the disclaimer and the quotes, they explain a lot. Are there any clues in the text that gandalf knew exactly what he was doing when he chose Sam to accompany frodo. With respect to this honest sense, Sam has?
Side character
Definitely the main character.
Tolkien explicitly stated that Sam was the main character:
Sauron wasn’t afraid of Shelob. She was a convenient guardian of the mountain pass. Sauron even sent her some prisoners as a form of execution.
Anon was thinking of Melkor and Ungoliant. Melkor really was afraid of Ungoliant. If Ungoliant’s insatiable need to consume didn’t result in her consuming herself, she would have been 1000x more dangerous and powerful than Sauron by the 3rd age.
A Silmarillion enthusiast in the wild!
If memory serves, it’s been a while, she became endlessly insatiable after consuming the two trees upon Melkor’s behest.
It took lashes of fire from the Balrogs to free him from her, since she wanted to consume the Silmarils as well and attacked him for them.
Ya, I think that’s the right of it.
In Deep Greek did a video on Ungoliant
GigaChad, Hobbit edition
He’s not a side character, the whole series is literally about him.
I’m really hoping someone else puts up some sidekicks that were half as cool as Sam, I can’t really think of any off the top of my head.
They all went home, because it’s a no contest. Except for Penfold - the world’s worst assistant. He stayed because there’s a punch bowl after the contest.
Humanussy.
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Yup. Frodo is seen as the main character but poor Sam does all the work.