Which Sci-Fi Fantasy Character Am I?
Samwise Gamgee
A brave and loyal associate full of optimism, you remain true to your friends and their efforts, to whatever end.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Oh ho ho, wow. While the idea of powerplay turns me on, I would completely be incapable of being involved in an actual class structure master-servant relationship of any sort. I've always been interested in history since I was little, no matter how much knowing about it depresses me*, the idea that had I been born in a different time and place, I wouldn't be considered a person at all solely because I'm the half of our species that has the XX chromosome set. Since I was into sci-fi as well, one of my nightmare scenario, though I've never actually dreamt about it, was to wake up in such a past...and I have always concluded that I rather kamikaze my way to the end than to live as anything less than a person.
I might one day love someone enough to devote my life to him/her, but I'll have equal say, and I might allied myself to someone who best serve the just causes I believe in, but again, the master/servant thing makes me uncomfortable.
In the context of the place and time though, Samwise is very zen, and I do believe his love for his master is sincere and justified, since Frodo loves him as well, and they are good for each other;
"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command" Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Book Six, Chapter 1.
What I love about Lord of the Rings is its takes on how power corrupts, what kind of power corrupts; the power to override other's will corrupts because it itself is unjust. For even if your will is a goodly one, be it for a world of gardens or the security of your people's kingdom, ill means would remain to corrupt the end.
*depressing history bit of the day; The 1897 Female Refugees Act of Ontario, 'governed' unmarried women ages 16-35, grants court the authority to imprison women for pregnancy, sexual relations with a Chinese man, and public drunkenness. It was not repealed until 1964, during the decade of 'Free Love', women in Canada the NOT Progressive were still being thrown in jail for having sex.
A brave and loyal associate full of optimism, you remain true to your friends and their efforts, to whatever end.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Oh ho ho, wow. While the idea of powerplay turns me on, I would completely be incapable of being involved in an actual class structure master-servant relationship of any sort. I've always been interested in history since I was little, no matter how much knowing about it depresses me*, the idea that had I been born in a different time and place, I wouldn't be considered a person at all solely because I'm the half of our species that has the XX chromosome set. Since I was into sci-fi as well, one of my nightmare scenario, though I've never actually dreamt about it, was to wake up in such a past...and I have always concluded that I rather kamikaze my way to the end than to live as anything less than a person.
I might one day love someone enough to devote my life to him/her, but I'll have equal say, and I might allied myself to someone who best serve the just causes I believe in, but again, the master/servant thing makes me uncomfortable.
In the context of the place and time though, Samwise is very zen, and I do believe his love for his master is sincere and justified, since Frodo loves him as well, and they are good for each other;
"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command" Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Book Six, Chapter 1.
What I love about Lord of the Rings is its takes on how power corrupts, what kind of power corrupts; the power to override other's will corrupts because it itself is unjust. For even if your will is a goodly one, be it for a world of gardens or the security of your people's kingdom, ill means would remain to corrupt the end.
*depressing history bit of the day; The 1897 Female Refugees Act of Ontario, 'governed' unmarried women ages 16-35, grants court the authority to imprison women for pregnancy, sexual relations with a Chinese man, and public drunkenness. It was not repealed until 1964, during the decade of 'Free Love', women in Canada the NOT Progressive were still being thrown in jail for having sex.