Is Sam Justly done

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

I don't think they show Sam properly in the movies. They portray him as the stupid, fat (If I recall, it was Frodo that was fat in the boook at the beginning) hobbit. In the book he is the first hobbit to kill an orc and especially in Cirith Ungul, he kills many orcd. Inthe movie they make him a slightly comical figuire, especially the fighting with pots and pans in Moria. Does anyone agree with this or is just me?

Despite the joking between MovieLegolas and MovieGimli, I don't think that the actual number of killings of orcs reflects a significant quality of characterisation in Tolkien. There are the comments about numbers of killings in battle in CoH and elsewhere in the early writings, but those are not comical and derive from a different cultural frame of reference. In LotR, heroism is portrayed using a different scheme of values.

On the other hand, I doubt if any of us really knows if Same was justly done. That question could best be answered I suspect by Rosie Cotton.