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Tolkien 101: Samwise Gamgee
08.27.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

If you think it strange to devote an entire article to someone as small and insignificant in the Legendarium as Samwise Gamgee, then you have bought into Sam’s own view of himself, as nothing but a simple gardener from The Shire.

But many have suggested that Sam, rather than Aragorn or Frodo, is the main hero of The Lord of the Rings; and this view was promulgated by no less an authority than JRR Tolkien himself…
Legendarium, News
This week in Middle-earth history: April 4th – 10th
04.12.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

This week in Middle-earth history: Samwise Gamgee is born, the Gondorians praise the periannath, and Hugo Weaving is born.
Legendarium
This week in Middle-earth history: March 27th – April 3rd
03.29.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

This week in Middle-earth history: Gollum arrives in the Woodland Realm; Dol Guldur is razed; the mallorn at Bag End flowers.
Legendarium
This week in Middle-earth history: March 7-13
03.08.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

This week in Middle-earth history: Frodo and Sam are taken prisoner by Faramir; Aragorn travels the Paths of the Dead, and defeats the Corsairs of Umbar.
Humor
If Tom Bombadil Had Appeared in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’
01.24.10 | Kunochan | Permalink | 3 Comments

If Tom Bombadil had appeared in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings,” it may have gone something like this.
Features
Today in Middle-Earth history: September 29th
09.30.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

In 3021, Bilbo and Frodo, joined by Gandalf, Galadriel and Círdan, leave Middle-earth, sailing west presumably to Tol Eressëa, off the shores of the Undying Lands.