Comments | serai1: Emerald and gold: Sam and OL's (Other Lovers)

serai1

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

Aug 11, 2005 19:54

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Samwise Gamgee. Best of hobbits, friend of friends. The moral and emotional centier of The Lord of the Rings. ( As a person in Middle-Earth, not just a character in a story, Sam is vastly unassuming... )

sam gamgee, lord of the rings

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oxer12 August 12 2005, 08:59:47 UTC

Well, straight off, I have to admit that I only have eyes for Sam/Frodo, as a real pairing. OTP ( ... )

elycia August 12 2005, 09:38:24 UTC

Have you written Sam with an OC or another canon character? What gave you the impetus, and was it easy or not? Have you read fics with Sam loving someone other than Frodo or Rosie? Did you like them? Why? Why not?

In three of my fanfics in progress, I am writing Sam having dalliances with OCs, but to me, the love of his life is Frodo. I cannot, even for a moment, wrap my head around Sam having a love relationship with any character other than Frodo or Rose. In one of my fics, Sam deliberately fools around with other willing young hobbits his age so he won't be completely incompetent when he finally lands in Frodo's bed. In another, he loses his virginity when his well-meaning brothers take him to visit a hobbit who makes it her business to turn boys into knowledgeable men, so to speak. In a third, the circumstances surrounding Sam's pairing with the OC are--let's just say, highly unusual. (Don't wanna give away the plot here ( ... )

rabidsamfan August 12 2005, 12:09:45 UTC

I suppose I'm different in that I think Sam has a great capacity for love -- and the kind of understanding that knows that you don't love one person the less if you love another person too. I do think that Frodo and Rosie are the "Great Loves" of his life, but I can see him loving, and being loved, by others. And not just in a sexual sense by any means!

Did you ever read my story "Speed the Plow" incidentally? You might enjoy it.

rubynye August 16 2005, 22:12:49 UTC

To be atrociously lazy, what she said. But then, I've never thought that a great love was at all diminished by not being an only love.

(And I was so going to red RSF's "Speed The Plow"> *grin and wave*)

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oxer12 August 12 2005, 13:38:41 UTC

And I will worship at your feet forever for writing MoS. It's truly the greatest piece of fanfic I've ever read, and I've read a lot. If I'm being completely honest, it's one of the best books I've ever read, period. You have a magnificent style and such a gift for dialogue. *fangirl*

I loved the scenes with Jolly. I think Sam needed Jolly at that moment, and they were so sweet together. :-)

elderberrywine August 12 2005, 16:43:27 UTC

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 ( ... )