![]() The only reason they made it was because Frodo was the one destined to take the ring. ![]() So to act like Sam's assistance was a save-all for Frodo is ridiculous. I can see why people think it was Sam, but if we are gonna be totally real about this there was no more actual probability of 2 tiny hobbits making it to Mordor together than there was of Frodo making it there alone. (Gollum is the person who actually destroys the ring, but does so by accident - assisted by providence so he isn't the hero.) Most important job, gave it everything: Frodo is the hero.īy contrast, Sam's priority is Frodo - and when he temporarily tries to put The Ring first, and leaves Frodo for dead - he deeply regrets having done so, and berates himself for having failed to stick by his proper task. This is not vitiated by the observation that Frodo was unable purposively to complete his task - the fact is that he gave the job his everything. Why? Well, because the book is primarily about the destruction of The One Ring, and Frodo is the only character whose primary priority is the destruction of The Ring. However, Ultra-sophisticates such as myself (!) realise that Frodo was the hero all along! (Some weird people - who are profoundly out of sympathy with Tolkien, and haven't read LotR carefully - regard Gollum as the hero, because. Sophisticates, who have read the book a few times, or read the secondary literature regard Sam as the hero - noticing that the point-of-view switches to Sam not long after the Fellowship is broken, Sam has the last words in the book and that Sam is indeed heroic in multiple ways - especially in fighting Shelob and rescuing Frodo while alone. Naive first-time readers of The Lord of the Rings regard Frodo as the hero.
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