I Love That In The Books It Is Practically Always Sam And Frodo Or Frodo And Sam And Rarely Just Frodo

I love that in the books it is practically always “Sam and Frodo…” or “Frodo and Sam…” and rarely just “Frodo…” or “Sam…”

Omg I have never thought about it! That’s true! Also Gollum was a hobbit after all so like Frodo and Sam he doesn’t want power. Hobbits are the only creatures that don’t desire power. This is such a beautiful message of peace and I love it.

One of the most fascinating details about Gollum for me is that even though it is said that the Ring warps its user’s intentions and makes them commit acts of evil, Gollum never once uses the Ring for any power-seeking purposes. He doesn’t try to assemble an army or rule over anyone. He doesn’t try to conquer lands or replace Sauron. He never uses it with the intent of dominating others. All he ever wants to do with it is hold it, look at it, sometimes wear it, and keep it with him in dark little caves where he can eat anything edible he can find. It’s even mentioned somewhere that the Ring’s temptation in his mind is merely visions of him having enough fish to keep him fed forever. But he never tries to use the Ring’s power to actually become powerful…the very thing that Gandalf and Galadriel were afraid they would do if they had the Ring. I think that goes to show how Gollum still was shaped by his hobbit nature; it’s just an inherent trait for hobbits to be completely uninterested in any kind of absolute power or dominion of others.

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.

Favorite father x son duo.

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.