The one thing people never really sell hard enough about LotR is that its principal arc is about the nerdy fat guy who's scared all the time and only came along to support his crush evolving into the actual badass action hero of the whole sagahttps://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1216526657277845506 …
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Tolkien himself confirmed the actual hero of the story isn't Frodo, it's Sam
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Frodo bears the burden of command and Sam does the actual work I always found the idea compelling that without Gollum, the series probably ends with Sam and Frodo wrestling for the ring and them both falling together into Mount Doom
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Tolkien based Frodo and Sam's relationship on the officer/NCO divide in the British army, which back in the day was a class divide as much as a chain of command divide
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