khaleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesi:

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

somanyofthekids:

chaos-bi:

somanyofthekids:

somanyofthekids:

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.

marttell:

@oneringnet favourite quotes event;

“It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”
― Samwise Gamgee

garashirs:

sam gamgee is a great example of a fat character who subverts fat character tropes and stereotypes

like, yes, he’s a good cook, and it’s made obvious that he likes food, but that’s not his only skill. he’s also a excellent gardener, a wonderful singer and storyteller, a loyal friend, and a strong protector to frodo during his journey to mount doom.

it’s sam who fights off shelob, who rescues frodo from the orcs in the tower, who keeps the fellowship’s spirits up during their journey, and who risks drowning to follow frodo where nobody else can. as frodo himself puts it, “frodo wouldn’t have gotten very far without sam”. he’s fundamentally important to the story, something that tolkien makes very clear, and while he is sometimes the subject of his friends’ good-natured jokes, neither he nor his fatness are ever used as a source of comic relief.

sam is not portrayed, as many fat characters are, as greedy or overindulgent, but generous and kind. during their journey through mordor, sam always makes sure that frodo eats and drinks more than he does, and has more time to rest, taking longer watches during the night, and going as far as to carry him on his back so that he can finish his quest.

sam gamgee is a good example of a fat character because he is not defined by his fatness. he does not acheive everything he does despite being fat, nor because of it. he is simply a character who happens to be fat. and if a book written nearly a hundred years ago can portray fat characters this well, then there is no excuse for modern media not to do the same.

fulljetalmacket:

Sam, I’m glad you’re with me.

flurgburgler:

Those absolute lads, commission for @frodoes <3

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tlotrgifs:

^{Don’t you know your Sam?}

frodo-sam:

Mister Frodo? What is it?