Jack_Burden:
if Stoors can be counted as Hobbits, Smeagol is in the conversation. Lived hundreds of years, disposed of countless goblins under the Misty Mountains, survived losing his most precious possession to that riddle-cheat Bilbo Baggins, figured his way in and out of Mordor, made an alliance with a child of Ungoliant, tracked the Fellowship without being caught, survived Moria, was just as instrumental as Sam in getting Frodo to Mordor, got Frodo into Mordor, and of course, did what not even the great Frodo of the Nine Fingers could not manage, destroyed the One Ring.
That. He stood through more hardships than any other character of the book I can think of.
Hamlet
April 1, 2014, 7:38pm
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I’m not sure he “stood through” hardships. Bad stuff certainly happened to him, but that was after he became a murderer and after the ring gave him long life and ability to hide. It’s not like somehow succeeded or his braveness shone through the bad stuff, he just survived.
Another Samwise supporter.
Anybody who gets to come home to this every night has my vote.
Frodo.
You’re all voting for the Sam that you know from the books, but you don’t know the Sam that would have evolved if he had been the Ring Bearer.
