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What always gets me about this scene is that as soon as Frodo sees Sam he forgets about anything and anyone else and just looks at him. He doesn’t care that Pippin or Merry are speaking to him, everything around him goes blurry and he just sees Sam. And also the way they look at each other… there is no need of words, they stare into each other’s eyes and understand everything.

I love how Frodo and Sam’s relationship builds from the start. Sam has a great admiration towards Frodo and Frodo has great sense of affection and protection towards Sam.

Yes also protection: in the books from the start Frodo asks Sam if he still wants to come with him, telling him it’s very dangerous and Sam practically says he would do anything for him. But also when they are in the Tower of Cirith Ungol and Frodo refuses to share the Ring with Sam not because he wants the Ring all for himself but because “it will destroy you Sam”.

Also Frodo would do anything for Sam. They would literally die for each other.

So today I read a comment on instagram in which somebody said that everything in LOTR could have been done also without Frodo and that he was useless. I wanted to answer “fuck u” but I don’t want to spread hate and so I prefer answering gently to all those who share the same opinion about this. Clearly they haven’t read the books and if they watched the movies they did it superficially. Those who are really passionate about this story can’t hate Frodo. He may not be your favorite character but you can’t really dislike him if you understood the meaning of movies/books. Whether you want it or not Frodo destroyed himself to save Middle Earth this is why I get so angry when people say he’s useless in the story.

If you are living right now in 2023 and are still a big fan of LOTR please reblog bro where are my fellow Tolkienites (Tolkieneers?)