Aragorn and Gandalf then led the final campaign against Sauron's forces at the Black Gate, in an effort to distract the Dark Lord's attention from Frodo and Samwise Gamgee, who were at the same moment scaling Mount Doom to destroy the Ring.

The novel The Lord of the Rings includes more Hobbits as major characters, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck, as well as several other minor hobbit characters.

Samwise Gamgee, later known as Samwise Gardner and commonly as Sam, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

Samwise Gamgee is first introduced in The Fellowship of the Ring.

In his role as " translator " of the Red Book of Westmarch, Tolkien devised a strict English translation, Samwís Gamwich, which develops into Samwise Gammidgy and eventually comes to Samwise Gamgee in modern English.

The courage displayed by Samwise Gamgee on his journey with Frodo, his subjection to dangers and the preparedness to die out of loyalty for Frodo is the kind of spirit that was praised by Tolkien in a number of essays on the Old English poem " The Battle of Maldon ".

* Samwise Gamgee at TheOneRing. net

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When Frodo was betrayed at the pass of Cirith Ungol, Samwise Gamgee saved it from being captured, but later returned the weapon to Frodo.

Amongst the exceptions to this were the surviving bearers of the One Ring — Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and also Samwise Gamgee, who bore the One Ring for some time during their perilous journey to Mt.

Samwise Gamgee and Gimli the Dwarf were also permitted to go there.

Very few non-Elves are known to have passed along this road, including Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, and Gimli.

Of the remaining members of the Fellowship of the Ring, it is recorded that Samwise Gamgee became Mayor of the Shire, and was an advisor of King Elessar.

He left a Samwise Gamgee action figure in his place, however.

Frodo Baggins ' Samwise Gamgee, and Harry Potter's Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as the afore-mentioned Sancho Panza and Doctor Watson, are notable sidekicks from fiction.

Sean Astin ( born February 25, 1971 ) is an American film actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, and the title character of Rudy.

In the final volume of the story, the five travellers ( Gandalf, the wizard, and Hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, and Peregrin Took ) stay overnight at The Prancing Pony in Bree where they catch up on the last year's local events with proprietor Barliman Butterbur.

Four years later Fastred was named Warden of Westmarch by the Thain at the request of Samwise.

All first edition books include art from renowned artists like Sam " Samwise " Didier ( Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment ), Travis Thammer ( concept art for Warcraft III ) and Chris Metzen ( Blizzard's Vice President of Creative Development ).

* Samwise Didier, an artist and Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment

In the year 172 of the Fourth Age, Findegil completed a copy of the Thain's Book, the most complete copy of the Red Book of Westmarch wherein Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee recorded their adventures.

The first medical use of cotton wool was by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee at the Queen's Hospital ( later the General Hospital ) in Birmingham, England.

At the end of the Third Age, on their journey to Rivendell, Frodo Baggins, Merry Brandybuck, Sam Gamgee, and Peregrin Took were captured at the Barrow-downs.

Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE ( 17 April 1828, Livorno, Italy – 18 September 1886 ) was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital ( later the General Hospital ) in Birmingham, England.

He was the son of Joseph Gamgee, a veterinary surgeon and the sibling of Dr John Gamgee, inventor and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh and Dr Arthur Gamgee, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London.

The connection is not certain: in Appendix F to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien mentions, but at the same time denies, the reading of Gamgee as a pun relating to the name of Sam's wife, Rosie Cotton.

* Boromir at The Thain's Book

* Gondor at Thain's Book

* Malbeth of the Arthedain at The Thain's Book.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

Mrs. H. E. Godwin will entertain the members of her Book Club at her home on Tuesday.

The Book Pahlavi script, an abjad, had only twelve letters at one point, and may have had even fewer later on.

Arriving at one's reward in afterlife was a demanding ordeal, requiring a sin-free heart and the ability to recite the spells, passwords and formulae of the Book of the Dead.

The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.

In Book 14, Ajax throws a giant rock at Hector which almost kills him.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

* Book of Acts at Bible Gateway ( NIV & KJV )

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera ( Chicago 1998 ), ISBN 0-226-71125-0 – ISBN 978-0-226-71125-6 ( preview at Google Book Search )

Heschel's papers are held in the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Amanda Hesser at the 2010 Texas Book Festival.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

In Book XI of " The Golden Ass " by Apuleius, we find evidence that the worship of this god was maintained in Rome at least up to the 2nd century.

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

Critics of Daniel, at least since the third century works of Porphyry view the Book of Daniel as a pseudepigraph dated around 165 BCE that concerns itself primarily with the Maccabean era and the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes.

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

* Book of Isaiah ( English translation Rashi's commentary at Chabad. org )

* See Book of Judges at Bible Gateway

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.