Sam was inherently a Hobbit. Hobbits had a natural mistrust of all things strange and unpredictable, and if Gollum wasn't strange and unpredictable, I don't know what else to call him. Frodo, on the other hand, was more accepting, because he had grown up with Bilbo's stories and Bilbo himself. Sam's heart was that of the quintessential Hobbit, so he couldn't help mistrusting and hating Gollum. Frodo pitied him because he knew what he had gone through, and understood the pain that Gollum felt.
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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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