Did Sam is God?!

[Gil Anguiano]

Recently reading the books again, I realized that Sam is the actual personification of God in the plot of the history, what ya think about it?

 

[Deleted member 12094]

Why don't you drink another couple of ales at the Prancing Pony and then try and jump over the moon before you're sober enough to bother us with more posts of yours?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Recently reading the books again, I realized that Sam is the actual personification of God in the plot of the history, what ya think about it?

I'll bite. What proof is there that Sam is the personification of god?

 

[Azrubêl]

Why don't you drink another couple of ales at the Prancing Pony and then try and jump over the moon before you're sober enough to bother us with more posts of yours?

well-said.

I'm pretty sure I've heard:
Frodo is Jesus
Gandalf is Jesus
Aragorn is Jesus
Bombadil is God the Father

And now:
Did Sam is God

All of which we know from Tolkien are not true

 

[Deleted member 12094]

Having read Azrubêl's “divine summary”, I thought this bizarre thread might actually be a place to share a little humor. Let me show where this leads us but if anyone don't like it: say close it and I’ll shut up. Just having fun, right? Here we go:

I herewith formally appoint Arwen to this forum as a symbol in LotR for the "Holy Virgin" (at least up to but not including the time she spent with Faramir in some private rooms of the Houses of Healing, where after her joys of living “miraculously” improved).​

Check your books: at least part of this is true so my stupid stuff is way better than "Did Sam is God?" ​

Fellow forum-members: did others is Gods?
We have to handle a question here!

 

[Azrubêl]

Having read Azrubêl's “divine summary”, I thought this bizarre thread might actually be a place to share a little humor. Let me show where this leads us but if anyone don't like it: say close it and I’ll shut up. Just having fun, right? Here we go:

I herewith formally appoint Arwen to this forum as a symbol in LotR for the "Holy Virgin" (at least up to but not including the time she spent with Faramir in some private rooms of the Houses of Healing, where after her joys of living “miraculously” improved).​

Check your books: at least part of this is true so my stupid stuff is way better than "Did Sam is God?" ​

Fellow forum-members: did others is Gods?
We have to handle a question here!

To jump onto your re-direction toward humor and simultaneously abandon it, I can respond: Arwen does indeed exhibit aspects of the "Holy Virgin". Tolkien took something of a classical approach to his writing, in that he formed characters out of archetypal patterns and integrated them into his stories -- one of the reasons I think that his writing style is so effective and one of the reasons I like it so much!

To return to the humor: I heard Tolkien LOVES allegory in all its manifestations.

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”