I think that if Gollum hadn't been there at the Sammath Naur, Sam would have tried to wrestle the Ring from Frodo. If worst came to worst, and he was thrown off the cliff, he would have probably tried to grab onto Frodo, and destroy them both, along with the Ring, in a last desperate bid to defeat Sauron. That seems to be the kind of self-sacrifice that Sam would have done.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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