#dynamic: frodo sam

[daeneryssansa]

It's only a passing thing, this shadow.

#lotredit #lordoftheringsedit #tolkienedit #samwisegamgeeedit #frodobagginsedit #lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #movie: lotr #mine: lotr #character: samwise gamgee #dynamic: frodo sam #daensarah

[where-our-stories-start]

"Sam was cocksure, and deep down a little conceited; but his conceit had been transformed by his devotion to Frodo. He did not think of himself as heroic or even brave, or in any way admirable – except in his service and loyalty to his master."

-J. R. R. Tolkein

#lord of the rings #lotr #samwise gamgee #sam gamgee #sean astin #frodo baggins #elijah wood #frodo and sam #long post #loyalty #i am a big sucker for closeness between people who are not peers #it's like a thing for me #and these two are *chef's kiss* for that dynamic

[aye-of-newt]

frodo was putting his whole little emo heart into being a dark lone wolf on a tragically beautiful death march to hell and sam was following him the whole time like

#if lotr was a modern sitcom frodo would give an impassioned speech about the futility of spirit in the face of the ring #and then the camera would swing to sam in the background giving a thumbs up #I mean that is more or less what happened in the movies #i love them both #absolute dynamic of all time #lotr #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins

[peregrin-nook]

(walking up to straight couple) oh. which of you holds the burden of duty and a melancholy poetry in their heart and which of you doesn't fully get it but has an impeccable joi de vivre and inevitably Will Kill Or Die for the other?

#lotr #frodo x sam #griddlehark #tlt #jokes on all you suckers MY ocs seem like one way on the surface but it inevitably turns out it's the other way around #wrote a scene where that shift – and the gorgeous fucking dynamic they have – starts to appear. and im biting dear reader. im GNAWING. #im cchomping at the bit. is this what writing is always like

[chonkymoth]

fictional relationships where the heart of their dynamic is unbreakable and undeniable devotion. either both people unto each other, or one to the other. the loyalty, the commitment, the promise beneath all else — I'll do anything for you and always be here beside you.

esp (!) if that devotion devolves into one of the characters becoming unhinged for the person they're devoted to, OR one person losing their grip on reality + becoming unhinged, and the other person acting as their tether, or at least trying their damndest to, even if they lose themself a bit in the process.

#extra bonus points if they go through trauma together and it strengthens their bond even more #idk its just smth about that 'i would commit atrocities for you if you just asked“ got me feeling some kind of way #izzy x blackbeard #i dont ship them per se but izzy's hungry devotion to ed is gd chefs kiss #nandermo #ineffable husbands #frodo x sam #idk how to tag them sndhsksk #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #dragon age #esp #zevran arainai #his line there at the gate of following you to the black city #thats what im talking abt !!! #star wars #i feel like theres a good few relationships in there w this dynamic but i dont feel like tagging them #lotr #the hobbit #mine #rambles

[corndog-patrol]

Hey corndog!! Have you READ the lord of the rings? :3

i have almost finished the second book LMAO

#i really love it tho #book legolas is so silly and fun so i lean more towards that than how he is in the movies #and book gimli is peak perfect 100% perfection #plus the sam gollum frodo dynamic is hysterical and i love sam's funny magic rope #all of it is so good

[lotreaux]

The relationship between Sam and Sméagol is underrated. They greatly dislike each other of course and would rather be rid of the other (sometimes even in a most final way) but in between that they do acclimatise to each other a little bit in some funny ways. For example, that part of the book when Sam talks to Frodo in Gollum-speak, saying 'O precious' and whatnot. Endearing. Linguistic specialities are always to my delight in any Tolkien writing no matter how small.

I love how Sam makes Sméagol fetch him things (water, coneys, herbs) as if Gollum were a dog, and Sméagol being good and poor and pitiable and loyal and all that he claims to be, does bring 2/3rds of these to Sam, and only refuses to bring the herbs because Sam was rude! And that's true, Sam was (I'll say) unduly rude to poor Sméagol (maybe I'm buying into Gollum's propaganda but I don't care. he's a poor meowmeow!) Anyway Sam comes to this conclusion too after a while and tries to make peace by repeatedly offering a portion of their stew to Sméagol (who refuses, because he's offended). Of course after that the barely existing trust is further ravaged when Frodo "betrays" Sméagol in Henneth Annûn, but I wonder what it would have been like if they had more time together, more time for Sméagol to be a normal hobbit, more time for Sam to understand Sméagol's plight.

Gollum pretending to be a normal person is great and hilarious because he's a hobbit too and they're all so similar but Sam would be the last to admit that. Sméagol channelling that 500-years-buried jolly hobbit attitude is 👌👌 'Wake up sleepies!' 😂 Can you imagine socialising with people with utmost confidence even though in the past 500 years the only beings you spoke to were yourself and a ring (not counting the agents of the enemy who tortured you). No problem, good Sméagol will get on wonderfully with nice hobbits, tell riddles, joke about, have profound moments with them like any hobbit of the shire would. 10/10

#not to mention that i LONG to see a dynamic between the 3 of them #where frodo and sam show a bit of reverence towards smeagol on account that he's quite literally the oldest living hobbit #an elder hobbit walking out of the pages of history #love how his stories about his old hobbit life match up with what theoden says about the holbytla peoples #ahhhh these books are so good #lotr #the two towers #sam gamgee #sméagol #gollum #hobbits #lord of the rings #lotr reread

[tristandelarkadien]

At the end of all things.

#LOTR #sam/frodo #samwise gamgee #Frodo Baggins #art by tristan #Sam/Frodo is an old and longterm OTP #It hits very simple notes but it hits them very well #They have a certain dynamic that is found in old boys' novels

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

most gender nonconforming beatles moment is how they wanted to do a LotR adaptation and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM wanted to play Aragorn

#the fact that they prioritized the Frodo Gollum Sam dynamic..... so incredibly based #you were stanning the correct half of those books guys <3 #lotr #bugs #fiona.docx

[estravenlover]

one of the most incredible early on sam x frodo moments is when they meet elves for the first time and when sam gets tired he just lays down and falls asleep at frodo’s feet. and frodo just lets him? just watches over him? kinky and romantic thank u tolkien

#samfro #lord of the rings #I can’t explain how insane this made me #LIKE THE IMAGE #sam is insisting on this servant dynamic taht Frodo like clearly does not care about upholding #and yet frodo knows it brings sam comfort #I also think he’s a little into it LMAO #anyway falling asleep at your lovers feet is kinda like crazy like he even had options to go sleep in the trees or somewhere else with other #but sam was like no I’m gonna go lay down at frodos feet to sleep #LIKE WHAT #and Frodo is like aww #WHAT #my post #lotr

[daeneryssansa]

LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

#lotredit #tolkeinedit #lordoftheringsedit #frodobagginsedit #samwisegamgeeedit #lord of the rings #lotr #fellowship of the rings #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #movie: lotr #mine: lotr #dynamic: frodo sam #daensarah

[aeide-thea]

my tolkien revisitation has involved many big thoughts but my small thought from tonight's grocery-run-by-bike is: WHAT is up with that one 'hive of ants' simile. like. my guy. i am very sure hives are for bees. ants have hills, or nests maybe, or like, a group of them is a colony. but gandalf at the council of elrond is all:

I came to Buckland and found it in uproar, as busy as a hive of ants that has been stirred with a stick.

i mean. radagast would never!!

#like i guess hobbits are too small to be bees so they have to be ants?? although like. hobbits fuzzy. bees fuzzy. seem equivalent 2 me. #bookblogging #the matter of arda #language #(also thots on Class Dynamics like. sam does call frodo 'master frodo' in the movie iirc) #(but on the whole i feel like it doesn't come off like he's a Servant the way he's very clearly a Servant in the book) #(like. carrying frodo's extra personal items he forgot to pack! what kind of camping trip etiquette i ask u!) #(mind u in the movies i feel like sam gets slotted into the‚ like‚ Hollywood Chubby Sidekick role instead which. debatable if that's better) #(but idk i really just have been extremely Struck by like. merry as Young Scion of the Aristocracy and pippin also‚ i think) #(like that really kind of does explain a lot of his haplessness at the outset) #(and then frodo as like. honestly kind of only barely part of the ton as like. adoptive heir of an Eccentric) #(and finally sam as his Loyal Servant) #(and like. idk. the movies i feel like really kind of collapse that into a 'gang of indeterminate mad lads' energy) #which honestly is probably good! although ALSO honestly probably kind of related to the social dynamics hollywood media tends to feature #(i know PJ and co were not american and i'm sure there's also stuff to be said abt like. aotearoan relative informality) #(anyway like. always a question with adaptations. like i think they tried to tone down the class and gender stuff) #(unclear how much of that was deliberate and how much was just like. if you love these books that's not the part that stuck with you prolly) #(but like. arguably a misrepresentation of the original ethos— #altho idt i really care so much abt that‚ like‚ we amend the constitution‚ we can amend tolkien #let's move things towards a truer expression of the humanism their original flawed founders wanted insofar as they could perceive it— #but also like. issue always of like. you make changes to a Beloved Property and then yr changes didn't even fix things... #like. arwen still total cipher. lady waiting around for aragorn to be ready to receive his prize.) #(REALLY if they weren't cowards they'd have‚ i don't know‚ genderswapped boromir or something. ...wow now i want that.) #(...boromir as like. xena except dressed for a northern climate. fuck i'm a genius and i want that desperately now.) #(oh man that sure would throw a spanner in the aragorn/arwen works though. #like. you're really gonna marry someone you can't go camping with #when instead you could marry yr sister in arms and‚ like‚ cement yr position in gondor by joining yr line to that of the stewards #who have kept yr seat faithfully in yr absence all these generations AND she's a fierce proud hot warrior lady) #(i mean i think you'd have to make boromir less of a himbo for that pairing to quite work but like. #everyone in tolkien's a cipher you can do what you want to them really. maybe boromir loves oral poetry. equivalent-of-homer readathons.)

[i-peregrin]

“you don’t think you deserve to be saved?”

( supernatural 4x01 )

the corinthian / morpheus

john / sherlock

ed / stede

frodo / sam

grantaire / enjolras

#the corinthian #sandman #enjoltaire #enjolras #johnlock #destiel #lazarus rising #blackstede #lotr #frodo x sam #ships #dynamics

[kneelb4kesha]

On the one hand I know we are all sick of love triangles and yes, I get it, I get it, but on the other hand the dynamic of a character struggling to choose between "i know you and you know me through years of history side by side" vs "i know you and you know me because we are the only two who can truly understand one another" continues to make me feral. We are hand-in-hand vs we go hand-in-hand. We are grown in the same garden vs we are forged in the same fire. Absolutely incredible stuff

#this post specifically inspired by shadow and bone #but also this dynamic is sam/frodo/gollum in the two towers so make of that what you will

[vakarians-babe]

someday i'll write my paper on the complicated tropes of power and love and homosociality that are inherent to Sam and Frodo's relationship but for now i'm stuck sitting here saying i kinda like Samfro but also there's a power balance there that makes it hard for me to ship wholeheartedly

#tolkien 100% experienced queerness in the trenches but there's also the fact that #officers and their batmen existed in a very rigidly defined space of social class and power #and that's the model for sam and frodo's relationship #so it's hard to extricate the employee/boss relationship from their characters #esp in the book where frodo is by far the older #i have a more general like for the ship nearer to the end of LOTR after they're on more equal footing #and definitely in the movies #but the power dynamics are also inherent to the subliminal queerness of their friendship #because they are brought together by sam working as frodo's batman #lotr

[emiliosandozsequence]

if y'all see a lot of lord of the rings on my blog in the next few days it's because i'm cleaning out my drafts and adding a bunch of what's in there to my queue!!

#it's mostly just frodo baggins bc frodo is me and then also some sam thrown in there because samwise gamgee is my fiancee #like their dynamic is literally the dynamic me & my fiancee have #emilio.txt