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I was reading Clyde Kirby's 'Tolkien and the Silmarillion' and came across this;
'I have never known a reader who did not on the whole find Sam {Gamgee} a person to be admired. Yet Tolkien spoke to me about Sam as "vulgar" and "despicable,"....
Is this corroborated in any other sources - it...
As an poor labor class, he possibly got not enough military education. Was there any source or implication mentioned how Sam got the military combat skills so sophisticated enough to kick Shelob's ass?Was it gained by peers such as Frodo, Pippin, and so forth before Sam joined the Fellowship?
He says "Hurray" when he gets excited to hear that he is going to see the elves. But i remember him saying Yippee too. If not i may have a foggy memory
Probably Sam was born on 6 April 2983. 'Samwise' means 'half-wise' (i.e. simple or foolish).
Sam Gamgee is a servant of Frodo the Ring-bearer. Samwise is a gardener and he loves trees and plants. He left the Shire with his master and then went to Rivendell. Later he went to the great journey...
I ran across two especially agreeable letters in the Carpenter/Tolkien volume of Tolkien's Letters, which I thought I'd share:
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184 To Sam Gamgee
[On 13 March, a letter was written to Tolkien by a Mr Sam Gamgee of Brixton Road, London S.W.9: 'I hope you...
I said it about his performance FOTR and I hoped that 2 years into the role, he could make something of it, but Sean Astin is incapable of playing Sam Gamgee.
Anyone capable of detecting wooden acting can tell that.
From his first scene I was cringing. That opening speech about Mordor was...
is this the ring that they trying to destroy thru stealth???
Why does Frodo flash the false gold at everyone ?????
Look mister nice Nazgul and his steed, lemme show u what i got
"hey, guys, look what i got, lemme show it around lol