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May 5, 2017 at 5:52 comment added Doctor Two @DVK-on-Ahch-To he was both.
May 5, 2017 at 5:44 answer added Bingming timeline score: 1
Mar 12, 2017 at 2:33 history edited user31178
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Jul 22, 2015 at 21:57 answer added Wad Cheber timeline score: 2
Jul 22, 2015 at 19:16 answer added Belegorn timeline score: -1
Jan 20, 2015 at 19:20 answer added Barafu Albino timeline score: 0
Jan 20, 2015 at 18:23 comment added Brendan Long @DVK You're conflating his job and his social class. No one is arguing that Tolkien is "jobist".
Jan 20, 2015 at 8:18 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/557451981951107073
Jan 20, 2015 at 6:49 comment added DVK-on-Ahch-To @MatthewNajmon - he was a gardener, not a servant.
Jan 20, 2015 at 4:43 comment added Matthew Najmon @DVK Sam's place was to be a servant to Frodo, and he served Frodo in every one of the actions you listed.
Jan 19, 2015 at 23:48 answer added ohmi timeline score: 2
Jan 19, 2015 at 23:20 comment added DVK-on-Ahch-To @BrendanLong - Sam's place was to prune trees, not to attack Orcs, Shelob, and carry Frodo up the mountains.
Jan 19, 2015 at 23:07 history edited Möoz CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 19, 2015 at 23:01 comment added Brendan Long @DVK But Denethor wasn't the rightful king of Gondor (since he was in the line of stewards, not kings). Moral: Only people related to kings can make good kings. Also, Sam is Frodo's (hereditary) servant, and his positive aspects can all be summarized as, "loves doing whatever Frodo wants". Characters in the Lord of the Rings tend to be good guys when they "stay in their place" and bad guys when they don't.
Jan 19, 2015 at 22:53 answer added bmargulies timeline score: 1
Jan 19, 2015 at 19:36 comment added DVK-on-Ahch-To @JoeL. - riiiiight... which is why his brother Boromir and his father Denethor end up behaving so "upliftingly"... or why a gardener's son Samwise Gamgee is the main hero of the book.
Jan 19, 2015 at 18:22 history edited DJClayworth CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 19, 2015 at 18:12 answer added user8719 timeline score: 38
Jan 19, 2015 at 17:44 answer added Misha R timeline score: 14
Jan 19, 2015 at 17:32 comment added Joe L. Quite possibly. Tolkien was, unfortunately, more than a little bit classist
Jan 19, 2015 at 17:03 history asked user31546 CC BY-SA 3.0