Samwise Gamgee
Author - Dolamroth92
Written on - Thursday 5th January 2012 (02:15am)
So last night I spent my day having a Lord of the Rings marathon. People never really seem to get why I’m so in love with this series, movies as well as books. I’ve never tried to explain it, but its because I’m never as spiritually moved as when I’m reading or watching this beautiful story, and last night many more ideas came to me that I had never really thought of. First, most people realize that Gandalf if a symbolic character of Jesus Christ. In the fellowship everyone laughs when he says to Frodo, “a wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.” In the same way Jesus is fully aware and purposeful of His timing. Even if we think he is late or early in coming he comes at the exact moment he needs to. Likewise, in the Two Towers the people of Rohan fully expect to be beaten, and ride out to welcome their death. And just when their hope and strength has been restored Gandalf arrives with two thousand soldiers. They over throw the orcs and win. This beautiful scene totally reminds me of the times I have thought, ‘this is it. Its over, I can’t win,’ but I do through the power of God. Second, I ashamed to admit I teared up at one point. The following is a speech Sam makes to Frodo after Frodo tells him he “can’t do this,’ a thought I very often have. Sometimes I just feel like I have given out, I can’t bare this burden any longer. We all have rings that weigh us down. Sam responds to Frodo: “It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here, but we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know that end, because how could the end be happy? How can the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, its only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines out it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stay with you. They meant something, even if you were to young to understand why. But think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now. Folk in these stories had lots of chances turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.” Frodo, “What are we holding onto, Sam?” Sam, “That theres some good in this world, and its worth fighting for.” I turned my head away from the people I was watching the movies with as I teared up during this beautiful speech. When I was 9 years old when I first saw the Two Towers. I didn’t fully understand Sam’s speech then but I knew it was something I should hold on to. Sam is right, by rights I shouldn’t have to deal with depression and suicide. I shouldn’t have had to grow up before my time, I shouldn’t have to withhold trust form my father. And as he said, there are many days when I don’t want to know the end of my story, because how can it be happy? How, after all the hurt I have been through, could things go back to how they were? How can I be happy again? But when Sam began to talk about the stories that stay with us, the ones were the hero’s could have turned back but never did, I realized then that would be my story. That no matter how many times I’m hurt or how many times I think I can’t do this I will keep going. And like Frodo I sometimes wonder what in the hell I’m fighting for, why do I keep going, why don’t I just end the torment? (I’m tearing up as I write this, haha). But then Sam pulls him to his feet and reminds him that there is good in the world, something I often forget. I get so caught up in how awful and horrible the world is I forget the good. I have a God who adores me, two little sisters who look to me for all the answers, parents who are willing to fight to save their marriage, and no matter how far away they are, friends who love me. Thirdly, one of the people made the comment “I wish I had a friend like Sam” during the scene in which Sam carries Frodo up Mount Doom. I am forever thankful that I do have a friend like that. Emily has always been there, even in my darkest hours of life. She has been there knowing that even though she cannot carry my burden she can carry me. She has been forever strong, never giving up on me when she should have. I literally owe my life to this beautiful, courageous woman. I don’t even want to know what my life would have been without her. For all the bad things that have happened to me, its all worth it since God blessed me with a friend I do not deserve. She, like Sam, has an unfailing loyalty to the people she loves even when they don’t deserve it. I pray every day that I will never lose her, that she will always be there. I know in my heart I’ll be bitter towards the man she marries, but she deserves a love like that which I can’t give her. There is good in this world, and its worth fighting for. These words have more of an impact on me than any other. It’s a beautiful thing to be blessed with the gift of hope. My ring is a heavy one, but I know that not only will Emily always be there to carry me, God will be there to remind me of the good even when I give up hope, something I do every day. J.R.R Tolkien wrote this book for people like me, people who resent their path like Aragorn, who wish they had not been chosen like Frodo, and who have those life saving friends like Sam. Nuvalye aman, mellon.
