My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the p…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.
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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
On their deathbed men will speak true, they say. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done! ✨ J.R.R. T … ▶
I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part … ▶
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. ✨ Fictional character: Gandalf. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, www.imdb.com. 2003.

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

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