I know 22 September is Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthday—but let us not forget that it is also the date in which Samwise Gamgee, last of the Ring-bearers, leaves Middle-earth for ever to reunite with Frodo.
That is incredible! He is amazing – the details and colours, the flowers, the lighting and shading – this is just BEAUTIFUL (and brown Sam! YESSSS my forever headcanon, that one!)
And I am so touched you like the little title I had Thorin bestow on him ❤
….Settling Frodo down again by the road’s mouth, half-hidden by a ridge, Sam fed him a wafer of their precious waybread, and made a pillow of his elven cloak. Frodo ate mechanically, and when he was done he slid into a restless, twitching sleep.
When he was sure his Master was asleep, Sam stood and looked down at him with a melancholy set to his lips. “Well, here goes, Master!’ Sam muttered to himself. “I’ll have to leave you for a bit and trust to luck. Water we must have, or we’ll get no further.”
“Sam,” said Fíli, his jaw rippling, “has barely eaten in the last two days. He keeps giving his every morsel to Frodo.”
Thorin did not dare look towards Bilbo. “Lion of the Shire,” he murmured, and it was all so unfair….
~From chapter 39 of Sansukh
(above, Thorin, Sam, Fili)
I loooveee this part where Fili and Thorin are talking about precious Sam.
Sam was always my favorite in the books, and movies, and oof! I hate for any of the hobbit babies to suffer but my heart aches for lil Samwise as we approach the end.
I like seeing him recognized as a stout little warrior and brave hobbit in fanfics, and Sansukh has never let me down. ;3;
Also Sansukh makes me wish Fili and Kili had lived to meed the next generation of hobbits! They would have loved Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin!
OH KAZ, IT IS SO GORGEOUS…as;kga Sam, you poor poor darling… his poor cracked lips, his eyes sunken in deep dark rings AHHH and the expressions on the faces of Fili and Thorin!! The hair, their translucency, their lambent colours compared to the unrelenting black bareness of Mordor, their HAIR
lasgdjlashfdafdq I LOVE IT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
Aw Yiss 