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Why People feel more sympathy for Sam and not Frodo?
Well, I'm a die hard LotR fan. I love both Sam and Frodo. In the end, when Frodo leaves for Undying lands I see people saying "it was horrible for Sam to get seperated from his Best Friend, Frodo." Indeed, it was. But wasn't it same for Frodo?? Though he was going somewhere he could get rid of all the pain and troubles he went through during the quest; but he had to leave his friends behind in order to get that thing. I asked my brother, he said obviously, "it was hard for Frodo too." He saved His Shire and wanted to live there Happily ever After. But couldn't. That's tragic yet quite peaceful for him to make to the West. Frodo loved Merry and Pippin and had to leave them too. .
This is so long. But just wanna know, why? Both Sam and Frodo were falling apart and no one thinks of Frodo at all?
3 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Frodo left everything to Sam and his family. Sam was Mayor and became a prominent Shireling.
And he does eventually take ship and is reunited with Frodo. Merry and Pippin are also given high status on their own in the Shire, and they go back to Gondor (upon Aragorn's request) and when they die, they are laid to rest with him. And eventually, the mortals who travel to the Undying Lands DO die, and mortals meet again in a different afterlife than the Elves.
No one reads far enough after Sam says the last words in ROTK....those appendices are full of goodies.
- ZephaLv 48 years ago
I'm only reading the books now, but I watched the movie a year or two ago and I can see why people would sympathize with Sam over Frodo. The scene that sticks in my mind is when they're on the way up Mount Doom and Frodo is basically complaining that he can't go on any longer. Yes, it's because the ring weighs heavily on him and it doesn't want to be destroyed, but it's hard to keep that in mind constantly. So the reader/watcher sees Frodo struggling and Sam, the underdog, suddenly becomes the hero who drags Frodo the rest of the way.
As for the leaving for the Undying Lands, remember that Frodo never really expected to go back to the Shire. He sold Bag End, even. He left in spite of his friends, but Sam went because Frodo was going. So it's sort of like, Frodo going off on his own is perfectly in character, but Sam staying behind is a painful break from his original intentions to follow Frodo to the moon if necessary.
Apart from that, Sam is just like a big cuddly teddy bear and he's just so likeable. I don't dislike Frodo, although I currently find him rather silly.
- 8 years ago
I feel sympathy for both of them, but more for Sam. He saw Gollum slowly poisoning Frodo and saw what the Ring was doing to him, but he couldn't do anything. He couldn't forget all that and had to live with it, whereas Frodo was going away from it all.
The same goes for Merry and Pippin. They both had their fair share of trauma during the quest - seeing Boromir die, they both got hurt, they were kidnapped by the Orcs ... they had it tough as well.
Personally, while I feel sympathetic for Frodo after all he went through, I feel worse for the others because they couldn't just forget. They couldn't just go to the Undying lands - they lived with all the memories.
