All of you have made very good points. I agree that Sam was just happy his friend was alive. He is his best friend.
The orcs took Frodo's clothes, probably to search the seams for the Ring and definitley because it would be a kind of torture for Frodo to be humilitated like that. They are sadistic, remember?
I don't think Tolkien ever intended for it to seem like Frodo and Sam were ever more than friends, because I doubt homosexuality was anything people really talked about when he was writing.
I wish I had something more intelligent to say, but I don't. Gotta go
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