![]() ![]() This means he is not averse to fulfilling the quest on his own. Long version Sam takes the ring when he thinks Frodo is dead At the very end, instead of carrying the ring, he carries Frodo on his back to the doors of Mount Doom. He realises he can't make Frodo part with the ring without doing great psychological/physical harm to him. He knew taking the thing while Frodo lived would be the greatest torture for Frodo. He concludes to himself his only options are to keep it but not wield it (like Gollum) or challenge Sauron.įor me the only reason is that Sam loved Frodo. Go?" "I don't know", said Sam, " because I don't know where we'reįorbear: Note the choices Sam gives himself do not include destroying the Ring. "Thank you, Sam", he said in a cracked whisper. Yes, in the film it looks obvious, but in the book, they are only at the foot of the mountain when Sam starts to carry Frodo: Just tell him where to go, and he'll go."ģ) Sam didn't know where to go even if he could bear the ringĪdditionally, Sam did not know where to go. "I can't carry it for you, but I canĬarry you and it as well. Sam knows he cannot bear the Ring or destroy it. he knew in the core of his heart that he was In his mind.in that hour of trial it was the love of his master Ring tempted him, gnawing at his will and reason. That sat in its dark hold beyond the valley of shadows. Though it would torment him or to claim it, and challenge the Power He felt that he had from now on only two choices: to forbear* the Ring, Sam did indeed become a ringbearer for a brief time, but when he was in possession of it: Of special note I think is Elrond's statement that if Frodo cannot do it, no one can. ".for it was appointed to me by Elrond of Imladris himselfĢ) Sam knew the ring would corrupt him and he could not bear it You are the Bearer appointed by the Council." "I think that this task is appointed for you Frodo, and that if Here are several quotes the text of the book: Over and over, Sam has heard that the task is Frodo's and Frodo's alone. So, that’s all for my semi-request Lord of the Rings sketch! I have no clue what’s next, but the weekend is here, so I’m sure something will come up.The text seems to indicate three reasons:ġ) The task was appointed solely to Frodo Here’s the only progression image I have, which was just after laying down some shadows, but prior to any blending: I think this is mostly because I moved sort of quickly on this one. Here’s the unedited one:Īlso, this time I only remembered to take one progression photo. (Update: I cleaned up the photo with a reshoot, but unfortunately I’m a bit too lazy to go back and add the speech bubbles). Clearly, it loses some “umph” without some commentary on Frodo’s laziness. My Gollum doesn’t look much like the Andy Serkis CJI Smeagol from the actual movie, but I’m actually okay with that I think it’s still obvious who that’s supposed to be.Īlthough the Gollum speech bubble version is top billing in this post, I also wanted to include the original drawing without the comic relief. The angle didn’t really leave much room to show Frodo’s face, so we can just assume that he does look like Elijah Wood. I think it does actually look like him for the most part. At first, I thought I wasn’t going to be able to capture Sean Astin’s Samwise accurately. I’m going to post this ridiculousness to Instagram as the “ fulfilled request.”įor what started as a joke drawing, this one really did work out well. ![]() I added good ol’ Gollum/Smeagol peeking out from behind a rock, and reserved some space for a digitally-added speech bubble for whatever lame joke I wanted to add. I modified the caption plan as the sketch proceeded, because I liked how it was turning out and didn’t want to mess it up with a speech bubble. I even planned to draw in a caption about Frodo being a slacker. In fact, as I was drawing this scene, I approached it at first mostly as a joke. Once I realized this wasn’t a real request, it definitely loosened me up a bit. And so that’s exactly what I decided to draw! ![]() I responded by saying that I would do a sketch featuring the true hero of Lord of the Rings, Samwise, carrying that lazy hobbit Frodo up a volcano. In the comments of an Instagram post I made on my last sketch (Fezzik and Inigo from the Princess Bride), one of my longtime friends responded with “ Sam and Frodo.” This comment was pretty exciting, because I thought it was a request for another sketch! As it turns out, he was joking (which should have been obvious in hindsight), but I already had in my mind to move forward with it. ![]()
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