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 ".

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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

Samwise is one of the chief characters in Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, in which he fills an archetypical role as the sidekick of the primary protagonist, Frodo Baggins.

Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for seven consecutive seven-year terms and came to be known as Samwise Gardner.

Art director Samwise Didier has stated that the character design for " Erik the Swift " was based on childhood friend Michael Cripps.

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.

Sam is Frodo Baggins ' gardener, having inherited the position as Baggins ' gardener from his father, Hamfast " Gaffer " Gamgee.

Tolkien took the name " Gamgee " from a colloquial word in Birmingham for cotton wool.

This was in turn derived from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon named Sampson Gamgee.

The choice of Gamgee was primarily directed by alliteration ; but I did not invent it.

Tolkien claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book.

" Dear Mr. Gamgee,

I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the ' Sam Gamgee ' of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic.

He sent Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book.

Entertainment Weekly called Sam Gamgee one of the " greatest sidekicks.