𝕹𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖆

(will be updated)

Rhymed poety:

The Memorial of an Immortal (by Bartimaeus of Uruk)

A Memoir of the Nameless (by Nathaniel John Mandrake)

Сontrapuntals (columned poems):

i am dead, yet still alive (Bartimaeus and Nathaniel poem)

a torturer, a martyr, a saviour (Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kitty poem)

i am a hangman of cruelty (Khaba/Ammet poem)

Freeverse/prose poetry:

The Stranger (a tale of Kathleen "Kitty" Jones)

The prize you harvest for planting the seeds of revolution (a Kitty Jones poem)

Definition poetry:

Love (noun, verb) (Nathaniel/Bartimaeus poem)

Interview poetry/series:

Bartimaeus of Uruk speaks through the centuries

John Mandrake answers before the afterlife

Kathleen Jones gives and interview after the tragedy

Blackout poetry:

nathaniel, a broken child

we were the same (blackout poetry out of Bartimaeus' original lines)

Other styles:

Sestina: a Loner, Solidity (a Bartimaeus Sequence poem)

Sestina: A Man behind a Shadow (Ammet/Khaba poem)

Sonnets:

Because Sam obviously wouldn't immediately tell him he has troubles sleeping. For him there should be only one nightmare-haver in Bag End and it's Frodo, and obviously Frodo has it way worse so he shouldn't be fussing about it. He can endure things.

But Frodo notices. He notices Sam staring blankly at the celling and waking up crying out something nonsensical in the middle of the night. He knows he knows what's happening because he felt it too, many times, and oftenly he still does, and oftenly he will for many years.

He never asks Sam what the dreams are about or why hadn't he told him anything. He doesn't ask because he knows it would make it worse, and because Sam never asks him. He listens when Sam is willing to tell, but never asks anything from him.

Frodo had, in many ways, less experience in any mental support than Sam. Mainly because Sam had younger siblings and a big family, so he has experience with comforting children, tweens and even his older brothers when the situation calls for it. Frodo happens to be on the recieving end many times, way more than he wishes, but it doesn't mean he doesn't try. He doesn't usually try to replicate the way Sam comforts him, because it requires a lot of energy and because he knows Sam, and Sam is different from him and not everything that would help him helps Sam. Still, he hugs him tight or places a kiss upon his cheek. He recites poetry in sindarin and tells Sam tales to distract him, even when his voice is low and tired and trembling, he remains a decent storyteller. He tries to add joke and makes his own notes and ever remembers lullabies Bilbo told him as part of his culture and language studies.

And he hold his hands. Through whole night. With both of his hands.

Things that you might have not know about Sam morning Frodo sequences because PJ didn't adapt the it:

Sam calling Frodo "my dear master" and "me dear, me dear" repeatedly, as well as saying "it's your Sam calling" in his famous don't go where I can't follow monologue.

Him checking Frodo's breathing and trying to warm up his feet and hands, up to no avail

Sam going absolutely ballistic from grief and spending some time just running around Frodo's body screaming in the air and punching stones

Describing his feelings as "black despair" that has fallen into him and saying that he, quite literally, "knew no more" after he realised Frodo is indeed dead

Straight up forgetting a big chunk of what happened because of how traumatic the experience has been. There's a big part of the story Sam straight up doesn't remember because of how much pain and sorrow he was in

Sam loosing track of time. He sat there near Frodo for what could be hours, unmoved, during the mission in which every second can decide the fate of the world

Almost expects the mountains to fall and the world to be in ruin because that's how loosing Frodo feels to him

Sam wheeping for Frodo. Wheeping after what could have been hours of him looking at Frodo's face.

At some point he starts speaking to Frodo as if he was alive. Has whole monologues spoken to him, even. He apologies multiple times for leaving him, for taking his sword, and for leaving him yet again and again and again.

Folding Frodo's hands upon his breast and giving his sword and Faramir's staff for walking as an offering for taking the Sting.

Saying that he did this so Frodo would resemble old great kings at the burrows. Meaning Sam thinks Frodo deserves the same burial as the King would have.

Sam saying that "he will be always in the dark now", now that Frodo's dead. Frodo was the light of his life. He has to take the phial of Galadriel because without Frodo he would have no other life. FRODO WAS THE LIGHT OF SAM'S LIFE, CANONICALLY.

Asking Frodo, yet again if he understands that Sam has to go. He doesn't want to leave him. He talks to him, still.

And even after all of THAT, being physically unable to let go of Frodo's hand.

"He knelt and held Frodo’sbhand and could not release it. And time went by and still he knelt, holding his master’s hand..." is a direct quote. At this time he was holding Frodo's hands of would could have been hours and he still can't, is absolutely unable to release it.

Thinking about getting vengeance of Gollum because he thinks of Gollum as the reason Frodo is dead, for a second even considering it his main quest. The ONLY reason he decided not to do that because it realised it wouldn't bring Frodo back. Nothing would.

Saying it would be better if he and Frodo would have died together.

Looking at the sharp point of the sting and thinking about the fall into blank nothingness, where there is nothing, not even grief. Which means this poor little guy was quite literally thinking about slaying himself with the Sting and die next to Frodo right then and there.

Sam being so incredibly, very gentle while undoing the clasp on Frodo's tunic to take the Ring from his neck

Sam kissing Frodo's forehead slowly and Frodo not responding being his full confirmation Frodo is fully dead.

Calling Frodo "his dear" yet again. Calling himself "your [Frodo's] Sam" yet again.

Saying that if he manages to complete the Quest he will go AND lie down by Frodo and "never leave him again", pretty meaning to lie and die next to Frodo once everything is done. Not come back to the Shire, not start a family. Lie and die next to Frodo, FUCKING AGAIN.

Sam thinking that if he had one wish he would wish to return and find Frodo again. All of this is him saying this all to Frodo aloud.

Describing Frodo as "laying in an Elvish beauty", pretty much saying that Frodo is as beautiful as the elves, said by the number 1 elf fan Sam Gamgee.

Remembering the "bitter comfort of that last night" before going forward.

Sam starting to cry as he takes literally maybe dozens of steps before looking back to where Frodo is laying

And in case you didn't know Sam's only one and only wish is to go and find Frodo he will repeat it again.

The few steps from Cirith Ungol being described as "the heaviest and the most reluctant he [Sam] had ever taken."

Saying he was now certain that is his place was, is and had been only by his master's side the second he sees orcs going closer to Frodo's body. Mind you he took like ten steps.

Planning to go and kill the orcs despite being absolutely sure he will maybe kill a couple before literally dropping dead. The Ring is on his neck. The safety of the universe is at stake. Sam doesn't care.

Calling for forgiveness from the Lady and the great minds because they must understand him. They must understand what he feels. I can’t help it. My place is by Mr. Frodo. They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can’t be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.’

HE KNOWS, AND HE KNOWS VERY WELL THAT IF HE DOES THAT NO HAPPINESS WILL BE FOUND AND NO SONGS WILL BE SUNG ABOUT HIS SACRIFICE. HE KNOWS THAT IF HE DOES THAT THE RING WILL BE FOUND. AND THERE WILL BE NO SONGS ABOUT SAMWISE WHO FEEL PROTECTING HIS MASTER.

And HE STILL DECIDED TO CHARGE AFTER FRODO'S CORPSE. HE DECIDES TO DOOM THE MIDDLE-EARTH TO SAVE FRODO'S DEAD BODY.

Samwise Gamgee CANONICALLY choosing Frodo's dead body over the fate of the whole world. Consciously and knowingly.

And at that Sam reminds him that he, too, is scarred. Perhaps differently, perhaps less (the part of his speech Frodo always corrects because his issues are never "less"), but scarred nonetheless. He too, can't sleep some night and he finds great comfort in Frodo trying to calm him in his own way because he knows how it feels. He too has days during which he doesn't feel like going into the garden or for a walk and he's entirely grateful Frodo is the only one to never ask questions. Just as he's grateful at Frodo helping him cleaning the closets when spiders are in there because — as much as Frodo's spooked by them too in a way — he borderline physically cannot go in there. He takes nothing but joy in laying with Frodo on the couch and tending his wounds and kissing his brow goodnight because it means comfort. Because Frodo is the only person who walked with him that path to mount Doom. The only one he never had to explain his new quirks to, the only who doesn't question Sam when he can't sleep or keeps searching for his sword near his side.