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Showing posts with label Sam Gamgee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Gamgee. Show all posts
15 August 2024

Which hand did Frodo put the Ring on?

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A question posted online in a private group set me thinking about which hand Frodo wears the One Ring on. During The Lord of the Rings  Frod...
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18 February 2024

Tempt me twice, shame on me -- Sam and the Ring

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Over at his blog, Joe Hoffman  has thoughtfully suggested that Sam's moment of temptation by the Ring is not in fact his grand vision of...
23 May 2023

Frodo, Too, Tips His Hand -- The Threat Outside the Black Gate (TT 4.iii.640)

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When Frodo, Sam, and Gollum reach the Black Gate and Frodo declares that he must try to enter Mordor that way, a panic-stricken Gollum slips...
19 May 2023

A Long-expected Parenthesis -- Textual Clues to How Much of The Lord of the Rings Bilbo Wrote

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  This essay first appeared back in November and December of 2021 as five separate posts, which I have now decided to combine into one, whil...
12 November 2022

A Random Thought about Bill the Pony

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I was listening to episode 221 of Corey Olsen's Exploring The Lord of the Rings podcast today (I am about 20 episodes behind -- hey, w...
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06 April 2022

The failure of memory and the untold tale (RK 6.iii.937-38)

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‘Do you remember that bit of rabbit, Mr. Frodo?’ he said. ‘And our place under the warm bank in Captain Faramir’s country, the day I saw an ...
15 September 2021

Sméagol-Gollum and the legacy of Pity.

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It was some years ago that I first noted differences in the use of the names Sméagol and Gollum. Gandalf only calls him Sméagol when he is t...
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02 September 2021

The small hands of Beren and the smaller hands of Frodo

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When we encounter Elrond's words at the council -- 'Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small han...
08 August 2021

Frodo and Bilbo in the Hall of Fire (FR 2.i.230-33, 236-38) -- A Managed Meeting?

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It is easily forgotten that Sam must have witnessed the moment when Frodo wished to strike Bilbo for reaching for the Ring. He arrived just ...
30 November 2020

'Der mentsh* trakht un got lakht': Divine Irony and the Ring Verse.

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 Just this morning I was reflecting on the incantatory lines at the heart of the Ring verse: One Ring to rule them all, one ring to find the...
15 May 2020

Again, sternly, 'with other vision' (RK 6.iii.945)

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In my post on this subject on  9 May 2020  I did not comment on Sam's use of 'stern' to describe how he saw Frodo 'with ...
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09 May 2020

'With other vision' (RK 6.iii.945)

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While working on the scenes at Mt Doom lately, I have been staring a lot at the passage quoted just below, and reflecting on the description...
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20 January 2020

The fair and pleasant face of Boromir (FR 2.x.299-300)

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Many a reader has noted the effect the Ring has on Frodo when he looks upon Bilbo at Rivendell and at Sam in Mordor: Slowly [Frodo] drew ...
09 January 2020

The Light that shines in the darkness -- Frodo and Sam in the Shadow of Death

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Brocken Inaglory at the English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Lately, as part of another pr...
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31 August 2019

A Wizard or a Warrior -- But Why not Both?

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'I am learning a lot about Sam Gamgee on this journey. First he was a conspirator, now he's a jester. He'll end up by becomi...
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17 August 2019

First Steps into Ithilien (TT 4.iv.648-52)

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Another excerpt from To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity, and the Ring of Power , a much longer work I am writing at present. ...
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