What is your heroic ideal?

[Pitchwife]

Let me provide some contrast and nominate Sam Gamgee.
It isn't that much of a feat to be heroic when you were raised to be a trained warrior. But for a humble hobbit gardener who's never wielded anything more deadly than a pair of pruning shears to beat the last child of Ungolianth, face the Orcs of Cirith Ungol and give them the scares of a great elven warrior running loose - that's heroism of the kind I'd hope to emulate if ever the need arises.