So this is NOT my article, that's why the quotation marks - I just found this extremely great and thought this stands out better in this 記事 section than in the Links.
In 愛 with Their Love
"The best prism to see Sam’s 愛 for Frodo is through the words of a friend of mine who is not even familiar with the story, but has been told によって フレンズ about it, who states, “It’s the purest kind of love. From soul to soul.” She echoes, all unknowingly, The Gospel According to Tolkien によって Ralph C. Wood: “Sam and Frodo give incarnate life to what the Old Testament means when it describes a friend as a person ‘who is as your own soul.’ (Deut. 13:6). Their mutual regard is also akin to the friendship of Jonathan and David: ‘the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.’ (1 Sam 18:1). So is their bond like that between [Paul and Timothy as Paul writes:] “I thank God...when I remember あなた constantly in my prayers. As I remember your tears, I long night and 日 to see you, that I may be filled with joy.” (2 Tim 1:3-4).”
Knitted souls is the most beautiful descriptions of their love. There is no other way to もっと見る accurately describe this wonderful friendship. Sam has always seen Frodo’s bright, shining soul and has loved it and him ever もっと見る and more, even when that soul becomes a very troubled, anguished, tormented one. He’s loved it and him since he was 9, at the latest (when a certain tween moved into Bag End), he was still loving it ever もっと見る at 109 if he lived that long. I would even dare say he was created to 愛 it, since without that 愛 Frodo would not have been able to accomplish what he was created to do. That is a rather profound (if I do say so myself) way of looking at it - that one person was specifically created to 愛 another person. Of course, this 愛 gets extended just as fiercely later to Rosie in a different way and to their many children and grandchildren and beforehand to Sam’s parents and siblings, but he was created first and foremost to 愛 and take care of his Frodo. Sam’s behavior supports that he believes that too. He considers himself to belong to Frodo and Frodo to belong to him as someone who he is responsible for looking after. He will do whatever he needs to do to try to ease his dearest friend’s suffering. Frodo for his part enjoys possessing and being possessed によって “my Sam”. In the Dead Marshes in the book, he calls Sam “...my dear hobbit, indeed Sam, my dearest hobbit, friend of friends...” A ファン writer reassures the orphaned Frodo who never knew romantic 愛 and hadn’t yet met Sam that he would still know “the greatest 愛 that could be known.”
Indeed, Sam is 愛 incarnate. He loves with God’s love. I ran across a quote from a rabbi that said, “Love is not blind. It sees more, not less but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen talked about being able to くま, クマ and 愛 the unbeautiful because one had already seen the beautiful. That is how Sam can go on loving with skipping a beat even when a sword is pressed at his throat, または he is accused of being a thief によって the one he loves most in the world または he has to watch his beloved master be slowly consumed によって the Ring.
“You are worth what your ハート, 心 is worth,” Pope John Paul II said. That makes Sam priceless.
Elijah Wood describes Frodo and Sam’s relationship as “Quite simply, it is love...It is that unconditional 愛 that says, regardless of what あなた do または where あなた go, I will always be there for you.” He and Sean Astin grew very close on the set so it is that 愛 also あなた see. Quoting Elijah again, “Every 日 we get up, come into work, put our hobbit feet on and off we go together, side によって side every step of the way.” “We 愛 each other very much,” he 発言しました in another interview and they weren’t afraid to 表示する it either. Professor Tolkien called Sam “a jewel among hobbits.” Sean calls him “...the ultimate hobbit...he has an undying friendship with Frodo that is so strong, he’s willing to face the adventure of the unknown to help him.” He describes his relationship with Elijah to be one of brothers.
I read the 本 after I saw the films and my お気に入り parts were the growing 愛 of Sam for Frodo, especially in Book Four and Six. It was the tower scene that really sealed it for me. It is such a wonderful, tender, loving scene that shows the purity and beauty of their 愛 so well. When I 読書 the story for the first time, I read parts of it aloud to my family and could barely form the words to say that Frodo was being whipped. It was almost too painful to say, after all he had already suffered. It always had confused me in the film that Sam 発言しました “You can’t be walking around in nothing but your skin.” I thought, “What are あなた saying, he’s got pants on.” Well, I found out why he 発言しました that in the book and Sam thinks he could be happy for the rest of his life just holding Frodo and due to our corrupt age, I’m thinking in the back of my mind, “You’re holding a naked man in your arms and あなた think that’s the greatest thing in the world.” (Well, not a man, but あなた know what I mean.). But of course, Sam doesn’t see it that way - he sees it the correct way, the way I did after the initial shock wore off quickly enough - he’s holding his beloved master and that’s the greatest thing in the world. It is the most beautiful scene in the entire story. There is nothing erotic または sexual about it. The other scenes in the Fellowship book - the bath at Crickhollow and running around in the fields after the barrow-wights nearly had them - 表示する how completely natural and unashamed the hobbits are around each other’s naked bodies. They think nothing of it. They are completely innocent and pure - one ファン essay I read has it like Adam and Eve before the Fall. And that fits. And Tolkien was devoutly Catholic. He wouldn’t have written anything immoral. He already understood, 50 years ago, what Pope John Paul II taught about the Theology of the Body. It is only our society that has grown so corrupt that nakedness has to equal sexuality. It doesn’t and it didn’t in this story. So while Frodo was stretching his legs and I was shouting in my mind, “Put some clothes on!” I realized that I didn’t really have to do that. There was nothing there but complete 愛 and trust on both parts.
Sam and Frodo passed through hell together and any sense that the Gaffer had drilled into Sam about his ‘place’ burned away in that purifying 火災, 火 as Frodo became not Sam’s master, but もっと見る best friend, brother and even child. Sam recognized fully that his ‘place’ was at Frodo’s side, that they were no longer servant and master, but closer than blood brothers, sharing the same ハート, 心 and soul.
Those many expressions of Sam’s 愛 - キス his beloved master’s brow または hands, promising to return to his body and never depart, nearly drowning in order to stay によって Frodo’s side, fighting a クモ, スパイダー a heck of a lot taller than he is and entering and 歌う in the enemy’s tower, holding Frodo while he slept, just to name a few - are my お気に入り parts in the books. The power of that 愛 and how sweet and beautiful and tender it is really stayed with me. I really wasn’t looking フォワード, 前進, 楽しみにして to 読書 about the Grey Havens, knowing how badly Sam’s ハート, 心 was broken in the film, but I was relieved it wasn’t so bad and in the book and the appendices revealed that he left for the Undying Lands himself after Rosie died. I do so hope he and Frodo were reunited at last. Imagine having to live without half of your ハート, 心 and soul for over 60 years!
The movie showed their 愛 very well too in all those tender smiles, words, embraces and looks throughout, especially in the tower and the Houses of Healing, that reverent farewell kiss. If we could all 愛 and be loved that deeply and that purely (or as purely as Sam and Rose loved each other), then the world would be a much better place.
It is a great crime and sin that some ‘fans’ have written または drawn a total perversion of that completely pure and wonderful 愛 and violate the innocence of these beautiful people, not to mention betraying the master storyteller himself and how he meant that 愛 to be. Again quoting from The Gospel According to Tolkien: “Nor is Tolkien squeamish about having Sam express his 愛 for Frodo physically, as he kisses Frodo’s hands, holds the sleeping Frodo’s head in his lap, and places his own hand on the somnolent Frodo’s breast. Whether in ancient hyper-masculine cultures または modern homoerotic cultures, such gestures are suspect. Not for Tolkien. Instead, he depicts Sam and Frodo’s friendship as a thing of exquisite beauty, even holiness. The most poignant account of their philia is found in the fair land of Ithilien...Sam beholds the sleeping Frodo as a friend whose worth is beyond all estimate.” And here he 名言・格言 my お気に入り scene from Book Four, that I will abbreviate slightly: “He was reminded suddenly of Frodo as he had lain, asleep in the house of Elrond, after his deadly wound. Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed at times a light seemed to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger. Frodo’s face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful...[Sam] shook his head...and murmured: “I 愛 him. He’s like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I 愛 him, whether または no.” “These sentiments, felt and spoken at the edge of Mordor, reveal the ultimate distance between the Fellowship and their enemies. None of Sauron’s slaves can be imagined as ever uttering such a simple sentence as ‘I 愛 him.”
Sam loves Frodo, at least, if not more, fiercely as he loves Rosie, though of course in a different way. Rosie is half of Sam’s heart, but Frodo is the other half. One professional essay says Sam’s 愛 approaches ‘religious devotion’ によって the third book and after they return he ‘longs to stay with Frodo forever’ but he also wants to be with Rosie. (Marion Zimmer Bradley, from Understanding the Lord of the Rings). The editors of that collection of essays “devoutly wished” her essay would put to rest the misunderstandings regarding this relationship. Too bad it didn’t.
Some people can’t understand that Sam’s 愛 for Frodo is just as strong as his for Rosie’s, but that I would say is Prof. Tolkien’s view of it and those ファン writers who see the truth and the way I see things. I have up on the refrigerator a small picture of Frodo and Sam. Frodo is looking fearfully into the distance and Sam is, of course, looking protectively at him and あなた can hear them saying, “I’m afraid, Sam.” and his Sam replying, “Don’t be, dear. I am here. I am not going to leave you. I’m going to take care of you.” One ファン calls Frodo, Sam’s heart’s “dearest treasure” and this she calls him after they’ve been separated physically, but not in their hearts, for over 60 years! Such is the strength of this cumulative, ever deepening, marvelous 愛 story that is theirs that unfolds over the three books. One ファン writer calls Frodo and Sam’s 愛 the “most beautiful bond in literature.”
I think it’s wonderful that their story can be called a 愛 story - what else could it be called? Yes, they are “more than friends” as the slashers 愛 to say, but not the way they mean it. They are brothers, not lovers. The intensity of their 愛 is the 愛 that men sometimes form in combat, so strong that it even surpasses the 愛 of women and anything else. One ファン story I read has Sam never marrying, but devoting his life to taking care of his Frodo. Frodo never went West because he couldn’t くま, クマ to part from Sam. He still had his anniversary illnesses, but he knew he was loved and he was going to slowly heal that way. Oh, to be loved that much, to be the center of someone’s universe like that!
As あなた well know, I’m 書く my own 愛 stories and I am emulating the master as best I can. These are the most unusual 愛 stories I have ever written, but I glory that I can do it. I rejoice to be among such wonderful kindred spirits I have discovered who have the same 愛 for Frodo and Sam and their 愛 that I do and it’s so satisfying to draw inspiration from them for my own 書く as well from the master that we all draw from. I 愛 the idea some have put forth that Frodo and Sam were very close even in childhood, that their 愛 already had deep roots before the Quest made them even closer than brothers, such an essential part of each other’s ハート, 心 and soul that each needed the other to be completely whole. 読書 other people’s reverent interpretations of Frodo has 与えられた もっと見る a greater 愛 for him, a greater heartache for all he suffered, a much deeper appreciation of all he sacrificed and what a gentle, loving ハート, 心 he had to give so much, everything really, for the Shire and its people. My ハート, 心 has been broken もっと見る than once, tears have come to my eyes - it has been a long time since that has happened and it’s wonderful! The stories also remind me that Merry and Pippin 愛 Frodo just as much as Sam does and he loves them just as dearly. Some of the stories have detailed how joyous and loving Frodo’s relationship with his younger cousins were and it is so sad that the Ring destroyed any もっと見る possibility of such joy and light, though of course, the 愛 remained. I am just so glad to have all of these writers so I can stay in Middle-earth that much longer with my beloved hobbits - all four of them! May their 愛 live forever!
I have discovered though that it's a very personal thing to be able to handle または not this type of such openly demonstrative love. I had to get used to it myself. As I 発言しました I was thrown off when I first read the tower scene and in ファン stories when Merry called Pippin “dearest” または Sam called Frodo “my love” または Pippin asked Merry if he could sleep with him. It is the pagan society that we are immersed in unfortunately that has us see things the wrong way at first, but now I consider it the most beautiful expression of 愛 there is. Pippin asking Merry if he can share his ベッド is the same as one of my nieces asking her sister. It’s 愛 for a beloved cousin, not lust, that is motivating that request. The three cousins have been doing it all their lives and are もっと見る comfortable being together than apart. There is nothing they 愛 もっと見る than a good cuddle. They mean the world to each other and don’t mind 表示中 it. It would be against their nature not to. It just pours out of them. One ファン put it very well when she said, “They are adults but they 愛 like children.” They aren’t afraid of holding each other または キス each other on the head goodnight または saying “I 愛 you” または whatever and during and after the Quest that extends to Sam and how he treats Frodo. The beauty and purity of this 愛 is that it's between two males. When I'm 書く it, I am celebrating in the back of my head that it can be done that way, but in front I don't think of them as males, but just two souls that dearly 愛 each other. It's kinda like あなた didn't see Sulu and Chekov from the original Star Trek as Asian and Russian, あなた just saw Sulu and Chekov. That's a very weak analogy, but it's like あなた are seeing them as who they really are, not what race they were. The four hobbits see much deeper, they 愛 the soul of their beloved. That is what I’m 書く about. Our beloved hobbits don't suffer from the terrible affliction that boys and men in our society have in that they can't 表示する affection to other men without being thought of as sissies または worse except when they get the winning ホーム run または something.
So I’ve decided based on very mixed reviews of this tolerance level within my family and a few フレンズ to take an informal survey to try to determine what is so special hobbity 愛 and why some people can handle such a high level of affection between them and some can’t. I have a male friend who is married and thought “Worth Fighting For” showed the “purity and innocence” of their love. I have another male married friend who thinks Sam’s 愛 is “too pure”. My family gags on it and you, dearest reviewers, 愛 it. I have female friend who has known romantic 愛 as well who 発言しました “I 愛 hobbity love, especially yours.” I have another married friend who hasn’t had the time to read my stuff yet, but 発言しました that “Frodo and Sam 愛 each other.” He placed a special emphasis on 愛 and he had the correct understanding of it. I can’t figure out all these mixed reviews, hence this little survey.
So, dear readers and dearer reviewers, what is the best part about hobbity love? If あなた wouldn’t mind terribly, please tell me whether あなた are married または not and whether the fact that あなた know romantic 愛 yourself Colors（色） the way あなた would see a 愛 that is completely pure but it on the surface expressed in much the same way romantic 愛 is. If I have any male readers, I’d like to know that too.
Hantanyel and Namarie,
God bless,
Antane :)"
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