Sam who?

[The Only Real Estel]

ok.gandealf comes back to life.......and where does he go ? to lothlorien.....ok in the book sam had looked into the mirrore as well as frodo........so galadrial may have told him this.......and told him about sams extreme sorrow about the happenings in the shire. so he may have assumed that sam had either followed frodo OR gone back to the shire to try and set things right.. i think PJ's excerpt was mainly from the scene and assumed it would make sense.. i wasnt all that confused..at least thats how i intrepret it any thoughts~~

I very fine explanation of it, except that I still don't think Gandalf would just let the matter rest in a sort of 'oh well, he's gone, to bad' sort of way. I don't doubt that as soon as Gandalf could he would've found out for sure. And besides, surely Galadriel would've also included Sam's final resolution to go with Frodo? To many holes in this opinion for me, but it was an angle I hadn't seen/heard before.

Kitanna: I disagree with your friend's explanation also ( I'm very disagreeable on this subject, aren't I? ). Gandalf understood Sam's loyalty to Frodo, perhaps he understood it better than anyone else, he probably wouldn't have bought Sam leaving him. Of course Sam had the chance, he had it all along, Elrond himself told every member of the Fellowship that Frodo alone was required to continue on the Quest, but Sam wouldn't have taken any of the opportunities, & Gandalf no doubt knew that.