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Your Daily Tolkien Ping!

Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!

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The Daily Tolkien articles:

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11) He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water by Michael Martinez

12) All About Sam by Quickbeam

[PMCarey]

One can track Sam's importance by noticing that the story is told from Frodo's point of view in the Fellowship of the Ring, but starting with the Two Towers and then Return of the King, the story is told by Sam's point of view (the part of the story that directly concerns the ring anyway.) It Sam's thoughts and actions that we follow - not Frodo.

I think this has a lot to do with the nature of the ring. As the story progresses and Frodo becomes more and more under the influence of the ring, he can no longer be the "everyman" character. That role, by necessity, has to fall to Sam. I suppose Tolkien could've tried to write the story from Frodo's point of view as the ring begins to take control, but then it would be a very different story and a very different narrative experience.

[ecurbh]

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