LOTR review

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., John Walton <john at w...> wrote:

> > A possible exception is Sam, who is thus far *better* than he is in the book
> > (where "he keeps on saying 'sir' to Frodo until one begins to have mad visions
> > of founding a Hobbit Socialist Party," to quote my second-favorite JRRT fan,
> > Ursula LeGuin); 
> 

(Whoops ... okay, John starts HERE:)

> I *still* agree with Ursula LeGuin. I think that the "sir" thing could have
> been left out. They're meant to bloody well be contemporaries... *frowns*
> 




 Actually, they're not. The Gamgees are sort of the "po white trash"
of the Shire, and Samwise is an employee of the Bagginses. Frodo
always sees more in Sam than Sam sees in himself, and it makes it all
the more rewarding when at the end of the series.... well, now, that
would just be telling, wouldn't it? :)