what if Sam had kept the ring?!!!!!

[Orual]

First off, let me be the first to welcome you to the Downs, Airehiriel! Enjoy being dead!

The one thing that amazed me most was that Sam handed the ring back to Frodo with no apparent fight.

That impressed me about Sam, as well. His only hesitation came from his concern for Frodo's well-being, not wanting to burden him with the Ring again. It took a lot of purity of heart and, of course, good old-fashioned Hobbit sense to fight off so successfully the temptation of the Ring. He had enough sense to recognize the tricks of the Ring, and to realize that everything it had him imagining was fake. /sigh/ My Sam.

~*~Orual~*~