All About Sam – Why the Main Character of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is Really Samwise Gamgee May 16, 2013Continue reading Epic Gollum & Sméagol Figures by Asmus: Get Yours Now! October 31, 2024Continue reading The Library More in-depth articles of a scholarly nature. Yeah… it's for...
Now I know what you are thinking: yes, Sauron is more of a presence and symbol of impending doom than a traditional character. We never see his perspective and instead learn his motives through second-hand accounts. But, this is what makes him shine as a figure in Lord of the Rings as...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Sam Kelly as Coronation Elf, Gondorian Soldier
The Lord of the Rings, together withThe Hobbit, is considered by many to be the start of thegenreknown as high fantasy, and these works have had an enormous influence on that genre as a whole. WhenThe Lord of the Ringswas published in paperback in theUnited Statesin 1965, it attained ...
The Lord of the Rings Photo Credit: Everett Collection Character Analysis (Avoiding Spoilers) Grew Up… in the Shire among his fellow hobbits, where Sam took to the simpler life seemingly laid out before him. He was trained as a gardener and reveled in his work. Though he was also tutor...
Yeah,The Lord of the Rings characters Frodo and Sam are queer-coded too, at least, to me, if not to everyone else. But if the large amount of fanfiction is anything to go by, along withsomeforumsand the reactions my former classmates had to the scene at the end ofReturn of the Kin...
Like many of the characters inThe Lord of the Rings, Sam seems to only be involved by happenstance at first but becomes an integral part of the story as it unfolds. His movie version is far less bumbling than the books initially make him out to be, and he sees through Gollum’s facade...
The Lord of the Rings: Directed by Ralph Bakshi. With Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt. The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
has to say,” andThe Lord of the Ringsis certainly a classic. Revisiting the book in the last year, as someone who has been out for many years and who is deeply engaged in making and consuming queer stories, I was amazed to find a same-sex love story at the heart of the na...
Many years ago, I wrote a silly little story about Aragorn and Arwen planning their daughter’s wedding, and for this I invented a character called the Archseraph of Kûz, a ridiculously wealthy country far to the East of Gondor which, so Aragorn says, “nobody even knew existed twenty ...