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.

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.

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.

There is also some fictional ' background ' information of those poems, linking them to the Hobbit folklore and literature as well as their actual writers ( some of them were written by Samwise Gamgee ).

At the close of Tolkien's main narrative the work is almost complete, and Frodo leaves the task to his gardener Samwise Gamgee.

The ring is wielded by Galadriel of Lothlórien, and possesses radiance that matches that of the stars ; while Frodo Baggins can see it by virtue of being a Ring-bearer, Samwise Gamgee tells Galadriel he only " saw a star through your fingers ".

For example, the Star of Elendil jewel ( Elendilmir ) is identified with the Star of the Dúnedain given to Samwise Gamgee, but Christopher Tolkien refutes this.

She is the first child of Samwise Gamgee and his wife Rose Cotton.

* " Coney " is used instead of the word rabbit by Samwise Gamgee and the other hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, as well as in the Monster Blood Tattoo Series, by D. M. Cornish

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 ).

Her most notable role was in the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Rosie Cotton, a female hobbit who married Samwise Gamgee.

He sets out on this quest with eight other companions who comprise the Fellowship of the Ring: Legolas, a woodland elf, Gimli, a dwarf of Balin's clan, Boromir, a lord of Gondor, Aragorn, a Dúnedain ranger of the North, Gandalf, and three hobbits of the Shire, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Samwise Gamgee mentions his cousin Hal claims to have seen a treelike giant, which resembled an elm not only in size but also in actual appearance, in the north of the Shire.

On their way to Mordor to destroy the One Ring in, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee are led through the marshes by Gollum.

When Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee and Gollum passed by the city on their way to Cirith Ungol, the One Ring almost succeeded in compelling Frodo to run right to the city gates.

During the War of the Ring, Faramir son of Steward Denethor II had his base of operations there, and Frodo Baggins and his companion Samwise Gamgee were taken there by his company.

Several of them rescued Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee from Mount Doom after the One Ring had been destroyed.

Just before the War of the Ring, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took crossed through it trying to escape from the Black Riders.

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.

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

" My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself ".

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.

Gamgee Tissue is a surgical dressing invented by Dr. Joseph Sampson Gamgee in Birmingham, England, in 1880.

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.

In this context we may suspect that the Professor is speaking tongue-in-cheek ; the Gamgee entry is phrased such that it can be read as a poker-faced, academic way of pointing out that the joke is there, whether or not he intended it.

Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee pioneered the use of cotton wool in the first medical context as Gamgee Tissue and his cottonwool gauze is still essential in the treatment of wounds today.

The common Band-Aid | sticking plaster ( invented by Earle Dickson of New York in 1924 ) was based on Gamgee's gauze, however, Birmingham chemist Thomas Allcock invented a porous plaster for the relief of pain in New York as early as 1854. 1880: Gamgee Tissue is invented by Joseph Sampson Gamgee, a surgical dressing which has a thick layer of absorbent cotton wool between two layers of absorbent gauze.

Gamgee also invents the Aseptic technique which refers to a procedure that is performed under sterile conditions.