I don't think this is a Sam who is happy "on the surface" but a Sam who is truly happy and fulfilled in the Shire, even though he will one day answer the call of the Sea:Īll the children were in bed. You should read Tolkien's discarded Epilogue which shows a happy Sam surrounded by his many children and preparing for the visit of the King. How the trauma of suffering and conflict affects us all deeper and longer than the normal happy ending portrays. Sam’s obviously inferrer-able hurt in losing his closest and most beloved person shows how that lasting trauma that the hero experiences radiates out to those around them even. I think that the thought is kind of a beautiful compliment to Tolkien’s theme, shown in Frodo’s struggle, that even after saving the world and winning the big war, the hero can be forever and irreparably hurt by what they had to go to. It seems like it could be inferred that even after Sam gets his “happy ending,” that he would still be sorrowful, first for Frodo being so weary, and then for him being gone completely. On the surface it sounds like Sam’s dream come true.īut through the book, it’s plainly obvious that Sam loves, more than anything else in Middle-Earth, Frodo.
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