All you Sam fans

[arianrod]

Very nice articles; thanks for sharing.

I think Sam is a glimse of perfection for us: he's the perfect friend, the perfect hobbit, the perfect cook [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img], the perfect husband, yet he never thinks of himself as being altogether good at any of these things. It's very humbling to think about Sam and all he's done for the sake of another, and yet how little credit he takes, wants, or thinks he deserves for any of it. In fact, it seems all he wants is for the world to give its praise and credit to the master that he loves:

Frodo dropped quitely out of all the doings of the Shire, and Sam was pained to notice how little honour he had in his own country. Few people knew or wanted to know about his deeds and adventures; their admiration and respect were given mostly to Mr. Meriadoc and Mr. Peregrin and (if Sam had known it) to himself. (RotK, The Grey Havens)

Sam returns to his home as a renowned hero known by Elves, Dwarves, and Men, yet his main concern is his fellow hobbits not noticing all that Frodo went through to save them. He doesn't see the courage and heroism of his acts; to him, all he did was help the real hero, his master.