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LOTR Read-Along: Homeward Bound (ROTK Ch. "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" by Vincent S. LOTR Read-Along: The Scouring of the Shire (ROTK. (Of course, it's not the end of all things, or even of this book - we have 82 pages left to go in my copy. This chapter ends with one of my favorite lines: "I am glad you are here with me. And so Gollum saves the day, attacking Frodo and falling into the fires with his Precious, so drunk with joy at regaining the Ring that he can't keep his feet. They didn't kill him so many times, even Sam at the end when "his mind was hot with wrath and the memory of evil" (p. And all the pity that Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam spent on Gollum saves the day. Frodo fails in the end - he claims the ring for his own instead of casting it into Mount Doom. 922).Īnd then, suddenly, within just a couple of pages, the deed is done. Who would have thought, at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, that Frodo's gardener, Sam, unpretentious and quiet, would wind up being the hero of the tale? ( Other than Tolkien, of course.)Īlso, remember I mentioned last week that Frodo says he doesn't think he'll do any more fighting? How wrong he was! Gollum attacks him here, and Frodo "fought back with a sudden fury that amazed Sam, and Gollum also" (p. It's one of the moments in the movies that they absolutely nailed. "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well" (p. It's my favorite moment in the entire trilogy. That, above all, makes me so sad for him.Īnd, in the end, Sam carries Frodo up Mount Doom. He's so committed to this quest, he even throws away his beloved cooking gear that he's carried all this time. He's the one who gives Frodo food and water, finds where they should walk, and even "set his master's will to work for another effort" (p. When you have nothing left to lose, you can commit to doing things you would otherwise refuse to do because they didn't seem safe.Īt this point, everything is up to Sam. In fact, this time when Sam's hope dies "or seemed to die, it was turned to a new strength" (p. But poor Sam doesn't know that, and things look so bleak and desolate for him.Īnd once again, here's that theme of hope dying, but characters battling on anyway. Of course, we who know how this all ends know that Gandalf has done something - he'll be comin' 'round the mountain with the eagles soon. Things all went wrong when he went down in Moria. Frodo on this errand, if there hadn't a' been any hope of his ever coming back at all. Sam says, "I can't think somehow that Gandalf would have sent Mr. Oddly enough, I'd kind of forgotten that Frodo and Sam don't know Gandalf has returned.
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