Just looking at the relationship between Sam and Frodo through what is seen on the screen is an important starting point for any discussion about the two characters. Gandalf (Ian McKellen) tells Sam not to leave Frodo’s side on the latter’s quest to end Middle-earth’s source of evil, ...
his loyal gardener, and the bond between them that ends up saving their world. Tolkien based Frodo and Sam’s relationship on ones he had seen and experienced in World War I — that between a usually upper-class officer and hisbatman, a usually lower-class man who served as his...
if there wasn’t tons of fighting and killing in the way. It’s not really Jackson’s fault that Frodo and Sam appear to be in a soulmate-type romantic relationship; it’s Tolkien’s, and it’s also due to the changing times. ...