You kind of ignore Rosie.
It might be helpful if you read Shippey's biography of JRRT, or some other biographies. Most of JRRT's chums died in the muck of trenches in WWI Europe. It was a miracle that JRRT survived it--but he did, just barely. I imagine the memory of clinging to dying comrades figures greatly in LOTR.
It says something sad about our modern culture--that it is so sex-crazed and effete-- that so many have sought to impose this interp upon Frodo and Sam.
I nominate this as post of the thread! Well Put.