Sam, Loyal friend, bravest hobbit, or just scared

[Ruler of the Frogs]

I personally admired Sam. That kind of loyalty to a friend is not one that you come across every day. He stuck through it until the end, and he was prepared to die on this quest, so he could follow his best friend with loyalty and trust. I do beleive though, that Sam was scared. He never showed it to Frodo, probably because he didn't want to get Frodo scared too. I think that Sam was truley a bit afraid, who wouldn't be? All his life he grew up in quiet Hobbiton, when all of sudden he's climbing up Mount Doom, being faced by orcs, everything! But I think that he was brave as well. 'Courage is not the abesense of fear, but the presense of fear and the will to go on.' Or something like that. Sam was brave, perhaps one of the bravest in the book. He was scared, terrified even, but he was loyal to Frodo and would follow him until death - therefore, Sam was very brave.