Shiny

IF you agree, I'd love to hear your thoughts, and quote and credit you in my essay if you're okay with that. PLEASE NOTE: I'm not looking to hear arguments as to why Sam is the real hero of the story. I've heard them. I don't even disagree that he's vitally important. I just think that it overlooks how necessary Frodo is, because I don't think anyone else, Sam included, could have gotten the Ring all the way to Mount Doom. Frodo's failure to cast it into the fire is not something I hold against him.

He's the one who volunteered to take the ring and accepts the irreversible damage it does to him as part of the deal.

He's the main and most important POV character of all three books.

i kind of understand that they didn’t have time to explain the entire history of sam and rosie moving in with frodo, but i think it’s as simple as ‘show, don’t tell’? especially in a film trilogy with such intense depth and lore to it, which is explained quite clearly, without having assumed the viewer has any book-related prerequisite knowledge.

maybe i’m seeing this from the wrong lens, as i’m obviously a huge fan and have never been a ‘casual enjoyer’ per se (i’m going off someone who would enjoy the films but probably hasn’t read the books). would it be confusing to a person, going in totally clueless of the plot, to show sam and rosie walking into bag end, rather than a random hobbit hole?

i don’t know, to me it just feels like it would still be really easy to understand that they inherited bag end when frodo left middle earth. sam was so devoted to him!! we should totally see that final reminder of his existence in the shire!! i think it would have served as a really lovely final shot of the film!!

It's just that feeling of something invisible eating you out from inside, and yeah, other people might know what it is and why are you like that, but it's not the same as living through it.

dude of course that little guy would be weird about washing his hands. and now they’re all dry and cracked (sam brings some form of moisturiser with him in his pocket and then whenever they’re out of the house and he’s complaining about his hands being all cold and dry and horrible, sam is ‘like oh here you go mister frodo!’)

“bingo bolger dont go where i cant follow”

“for bingo bolger”

“theres some good in this world bingo bolger”