Samwise Gamgee

There is nothing more disorienting in a child’s life than moving. I moved twice in my life, three times if you count going away to boarding school. Moving made me disoriented, but the people that I met kept me going. I first moved when I was seven. It was not a big move. I only moved one hour away from my old house. The major factor was the fact that all the child hood friends that I had made, Jake, Jack, and Marlin, were all gone. I had to start a new life. I was young at the time and lacked…

At an early age, I began my journey through the vast Tolkien universe of Middle-Earth. My mom encouraged me to read when I was a kid. I took quickly to books because of my love of stories starting from the fairy tales my parents read to me as a child. After reading the Narnia series, Magic Treehouse series, and other fantasy adventure series, my mom got me a recording of The Hobbit: There and Back Again. In second grade, I recall coming home after school and instead of going and playing with…

The companions are not obliged to stay, but in both Lord of the Flies and the Lord of the Rings love or the loyalty of friendship keeps Sam, and Piggy devoted to serving alongside their designated hero. Samwise Gamgee, one of the most fainthearted hobbits to ever live in the Shire follows Frodo all the way to Mordor. Despite Frodo warning him of the dangers, Sam responds with, “I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I 'm coming with you”…

1. I think it is important for Christians to exist within community especially when dealing with difficult life circumstances, sins, or emotional and relational issues because we suffer from identity amnesia. We suffer from placing our identity in the things of creation rather than in Christ and His great work of salvation and sanctification. We are blind to our own sins and self-righteousness and are a people in desperate need. We are in great need for others who are broken and know of the…

In part II of the Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers, the perspective of Frodo’s companion, Samwise Gamgee, is viewed during a battle in Ithilien: “ It was Sam’s first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. . . He wondered what the Man’s name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart or what evil lies…

“‘You’ve got it?’ gasped Frodo. ‘You’ve got it here? Sam, you’re a marvel!’ Then quickly and strangely his tone changed. ‘Give it to me!’ he cried, standing up, holding out a trembling hand. ‘Give it to me at once! You can’t have it!’” (Tolkien 890) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a fantasy trilogy that has set the bar for all others of the genre. It follows a young hobbit named Frodo as he, and his companions, struggle to destroy an evil ring capable of the world’s end. Frodo…

It’s no surprise that this story is based off a war, more specifically World War I. J.R.R Tolkien was in his first phases of creating the story when the war started, so what better place to draw inspiration from. The Fellowship and Sauron’s war is meant to, in a sense, embody World War I. The book itself was published almost to the day, 40 years after WWI started. Throughout the story the main theme is good versus evil, which is the main point of a war one side is made of wrong doers the other…