‘but whyyy would tolkien shoehorn sam into a romantic relationship with rosie when it’s so obvious that frodo’s the most important person in his life?’
hear me out, what if…and this is a long shot…tolkien had lived through some deeply harrowing experiences that emphasised that people can love each other in different ways and they’re all equally important? and that the strongest bonds you form aren’t always explicitly romantic? what if everything in tolkien’s work (eowyn’s different loves for faramir and aragorn, boromir having no interest in romantic relationships and putting everything into his love for his city) fairly dripped with the idea that romance isn’t the only important sort of love? what then?




























