I responded by saying that I would do a sketch featuring the true hero of Lord of the Rings, Samwise, carrying that lazy hobbit Frodo up a volcano. Sam: Then let us be rid of it… once and for all! Come on, Mr. As it turns out, he was joking (which should have been obvious in hindsight), but I already had in my mind to move forward with it. I’m… naked in the dark, with nothing, no veil… between me… and the wheel of fire! I can see him… with my waking eyes! I can’t recall the taste of food… nor the sound of water… nor the touch of grass. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?įrodo: No, Sam. The ring may have sensed that it had a greater chance of returning to its master through the already corrupted Frodo, rather than having to start fresh with Sam. Sams love for Frodo was too great for the ring to corrupt. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields… and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Sam had only been carrying the ring for a short time, the longer the ring is in someones possession, the more addicted they become to it. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. Carrying Frodo was the only way Sam could help. Paranoia and suspicion rises between Frodo, Sam and Gollum as they continue their increasingly dark and dangerous travel to Mount Doom, the one place where The Ring can be destroyed once and for all. Sam knew they didnt have time to wasteGollum was still nearby, and Sauron might discover them at any moment. Here at the end of all things, Sam.” ― J.R.R.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R.
Sam might be bisexual, or he might not.Īgain the ambiguity is in our faces and it is up to your own imagination as to what you interpret.Īnd the extended tale also says that Sam the devoted husband also goes to the havens once Rosie dies and he departs to the West, ostensibly to be with Frodo again but also to gain final healing after having been damaged himself by the depth of his empathy for Frodo as the Ring-bearer. Then recall at the end of the novel, how Sam is so torn between Frodo and Rosie and Frodo proposes that Rosie move in. In the film, he goes super-Saiyan-Sam (but still in a very Sam way) and brings the ring back to Frodo in Cirith Ungol. I suspect this kind of practice was not completely unheard of and a very nice way to give moral support to a younger relative of similar persuasion. But if you impose the discipline in your thinking that they are possibly not, then the deeper meanings in Tolkien’s writing become clearer.Ĭonsider the times in which Tolkien was born and his times in war.Ĭertainly, Bilbo preferred his own company and the company of males and he “adopts” one of his second cousins as his heir, one who also prefers the company of males. So Frodo and Sam can be gay if you want them to be. He couples all this in a novel that is also referencing the ancient tales of the past with all the hypermasculine heroism qualities that are celebrated in song and poetry. It could very well be that Tolkien is giving us a glimpse of what relationships between the men in the trenches would have been like and why being defensive and stuffy about intimacy between men is just so dumb. The love that Tolkien attempted to portray can also be seen as a warrior’s bond blended with a complex caste friendship. There is also a possibility that their relationship is completely platonic, and can be both deep and intimate (not in the sense of romantic intimacy but one of emotional and personal intimacy of a person really knowing and understanding another person). He risks his life by confronting Gollum, defending Frodo against Shelob and by rescuing him from the orcs thereafter, oh, and of course carrying him up to Mount Doom. Sam leaves the comforts of his home to follow Frodo to a place that may as well be another planet to him. There’s this bond that exists between them that even in the end, leaves little doubt to the depth, breadth, and platonic intimacy of how they feel for each other. And I think that is what Tolkien wanted, to give us a chance to interpret it the way we want to. Tolkien left room for individual interpretations of the relationship between those two characters in its books.įrodo and Sam definitely have some connection that rarely any other characters in the books have (there are few), but is their relationship gay, and is Sam in love with Frodo is really hard to tell. Their relationship is entirely platonic, and also deeply intimate, but not in a romantic sense, but one of emotional and personal intimacy in a person really knowing and understanding another person.īut, what I think is that great J.
Neither was it said that Frodo Baggins was gay nor that Sam was in love with him.
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