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The relationship between Sam and Frodo

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Re: The relationship between Sam and Frodo

Postby carol » July 24th, 2005, 8:28 am

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Re: The relationship between Sam and Frodo

Postby A#minor » August 2nd, 2005, 3:28 am

Just reading through J.R.R.Tolkien: A biography by Humphrey Carpenter again and I found this quote that might be helpful.
It's found on page 89.


"Discussing one of the principal characters in The Lord of the Rings he wrote many years later: ' My "Sam Gamgee" is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself."
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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Re: The relationship between Sam and Frodo

Postby A#minor » August 28th, 2005, 8:16 pm

"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton
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