HerenIstarion,
That's an interesting point, that Sam was a romantic hero.
He's the one male who isn't a romanticized hunk like Aragorn and Boromir, in the movie. He doesn't have the aristocratic bloodlines of Aragorn and Faramir. He's kind of like Tom Jones (Henry Fielding's Tom Jones) without the philandering hijinks.
The dull, plodding sort, the good guy who finishes ... first. A new kind of romantic hero, since he does get the girl, and a passle of kids. He is an ancient patriarch, sort of. Frodo is the light of the world, but Sam is the salt of the earth.
Was Tolkien creating a new vision of hero?
Bethberry
PS. And, yes, Elenna, I would agree with you about Eowyn's desire for position and power rather than the man himself.
[ September 27, 2002: Message edited by: Bethberry ]
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