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If Sam is a fool it is only in theway of the Shakespearean "fool" of Lear....
I am not sure that there is a fundamental difference between Frodo and Sam .... just a difference in Status and education ..... "queerness" tends to be tolerated better in the high status rich than the low-status poor in the same way now that bad behaviour will be accepted as a passing phase of youthful high spirits in a teenager from a privileged background and incipient juvenile delinquency in one from a deprived background.... La plus ca change....
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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