Emerald and gold: Sam and OL's (Other Lovers)

[serai1]

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Samwise Gamgee. Best of hobbits, friend of friends. The moral and emotional centier of The Lord of the Rings.

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[elderberrywine]

Well, I doubt that this will come as much of a shock to anyone, but for me, it's all about F/S. Even reading it for the first time at age 14, I had totally bought into the F/S aspect (I guess I was rather precocious) and was absolutely floored when Sam ran off with Rosie at the end. Quite honestly, LOTR would never have held the place in my heart that it does if I had not found the appendix, which went a long way towards redeeming Sam in my eyes. But then Sam was always my favorite character and I always saw Frodo through his eyes.

I must guiltily admit that S/OC fics, and even S/R, are difficult for me as a reader, and quite impossible for me to write. Oddly enough, F/OC are easier, but possible because in LOTR, we never really hear Frodo's inner voice. He's a more complex character, thus, and other relationships, at least for me, are more believeable. But I am the old-fashioned type, I'm afraid, so I clutch my appendix to my heart, and remember how it ends.

As you say, Every part of his story is uniquely Sam, livable by no other being (again as is true of everybody else in the book.) He's given every characteristic that would endear him to a romance writer - good, brave, loyal, forthright, humble, strong, we could go on - and so there's a lot of potential there. And I would add that we see straight into Sam's heart, far more so than any of the other characters. Plus, he's got most of the best lines in the book.