[Rimbaud]

Littlemanpoet - Frodo and Sam's relationship is based almost exclusively (at first) on notions of class, I cannot see any way in which this is not apparent.

I am not willing to enter into heated debate on the origins of class - the nomenclature itself has now been questioned, which gives rise to a host of definition-based arguments - but it is important to contextualise; Tolkien was writing in the mid and post War periods of class dissolution and the issue would have been at the forefront of educated thinking.