The position of Sam to the positions of Frodo, Merry and Pippin is not equal in Hobbit society, this is not portrayed in the movie. The portrait of Sam in LOTR is of a young servant, inheriting his father's craft. Frodo stopped aging for 17 years while he kept the Ring hidden, similar to Bilbo. Frodo looks young in the movie, but the ring makes the bearer stop aging (maybe the movies took this into consideration). Sam was born in 1380 of The Shire reckoning, while Frodo was born in 1368. Sam is also a lot younger than Frodo, who is about 50 years of age in the book.
He valued Frodo and their friendship a lot, and looked after Frodo, considering himself Frodo's friend and guardian. Sam grew to know his employer, respect him, and form a friendship.
Frodo kept the Ring hidden for 17 years (not in the movie). At that point, Sam is himself propelled into the gentry: he becomes Mayor, and founds a dynasty of his own.įirst of all, Sam was Frodo's gardener. The Lord of the Rings - Book IV: Chapter V - The Window of the WestĪfter Frodo sails from Middle-Earth at the end of the book, he leaves Bag End to Sam. "Do not speak before your master, whose wit is greater than yours." "Patience!" said Faramir, but without anger. Sam would never have dreamed of referring to Frodo without the honorific.Įven Faramir, from a completely different society, recognizes this relationship, and tells Sam: He became very close to Frodo, and devoted to him, but the relationship was never one of equals. Being "in service" was regarded at that time as a very good occupation for someone like Sam.
#WHO PLAYED FRODO AND SAM SERIES#
If you've seen the TV series Downton Abbey, for example, you can picture the sort of character he's meant to represent. Meanwhile, Sam is very much of the servant class. The Gamgees may well have been his tenants. It's not made explicit, but as owner of Bag End he was almost certainly also the owner of much of the land about. Frodo represents the landed gentry - not actually aristocracy, but powerful and influential as a result of owning large amounts of land. In that society, there was a very clear distinction between the different classes.
The Shire is very specifically based on the rural English Midlands of the late 19th century that existed, although already starting to disappear, when Tolkien was growing up. There are some good answers here already, but some of the comments betray an unfamiliarity with the social system that Tolkien was portraying in the Shire.
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