I’m full of rage about several things I can’t control right now, so I’m going to pour it into another post about why
I Hate Everyone Who Calls Samwise Gamgee “””””THe rEAl HeRO”””””” of LOTR.
Listen. Listen to me. I love Sam. I fucking love him so goddamn much. He’s amazing. He brought spices to Mordor. If Sam had been around to cook a nice chicken tetrazzini for Morgoth back in the day, who knows how things might have turned out.
But don’t think for one fucking second that Sam would have ever left the Shire on his own. If Sam somehow had been the one holding the ring, it would have immediately gotten lost somewhere in a potato row, and Sam wouldn’t have noticed or cared.
The ENTIRE POINT of Sam and Frodo making the journey together is that it CAN’T BE DONE ALONE. Frodo is there to carry the ring, and Sam is there to carry Frodo. People wanna act like that means that the ring was Frodo’s burden, so Frodo must have been Sam’s burden. Do you know what Samwise the Brave would do if he ever heard someone suggest that Frodo was his burden??
He would fuckening beat their butt in with a frying pan. Leave them with a concave butt. Every time they try to sit down they’ll remember exactly how wrong they are.
Sam can’t carry the ring. Frodo can’t get up the mountain without Sam. Sam isn’t the real hero, Frodo isn’t the real hero, the relationship between them is the real hero.
P.S. Also, calling Sam “The Real Hero™” completely dismisses everything Frodo did. Like bitch?? Let’s see you get fuckin stabbed by a Nazgûl and still carry the weight of evil across an entire damn fantasy map.
[Children’s show voice] and that’s why the real hero was the kinda gay friendship we fostered along the way!
@chaos-bi You’re right and you should say it.
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