God bless you, let our hearts be buried in each other
LOL! Try this on your friends and see how they back slowly away!
In my modern, all-or-nothing uptight way, I find this sentence intriguing. What do you mean? Is that possible? Do you mean in a "comfort" sense? Or, like, artistically? *ponders this*
Heh. Well, I meant Sam appreciates Frodo physically and often wants to touch him for comfort or for whatever reason. Like when Frodo wakes up in Rivendell Sam strokes his hand, happy that it is no longer cold. There are many times when they both need physical contact for reassurance. Now, that doesn't have to be sexual, but it is physical: Hold my hand. Put your head in my lap.
Or, more obviously, there's the part where he's watching Frodo sleep and admiring his face when he sleeps. Tolkien writes this clear physical description of beauty and says Sam can't describe it in those terms but can only say, "He's like that and it shines through sometimes." So what we've got it someone admiring the face of their friend as they sleep and coming to the conclusion that "I love him, whether or no." It's something you usually associate with a lover--or perhaps also with a mother and child.
There's definitely a lot of comfort to it, but it's not always about just comfort. There's also the element of Frodo pleasing Sam's senses, liking to look at him, liking to care for him-including physically. With a lot of males if you asked them about physical aspects of their friends they either wouldn't know them or they'd claim they didn't. Sam, you know, could detail Frodo's every birthmark, tell you how he stirs his tea, how he sleeps. Part of this is from being his servant, but clearly Sam approaches his job as a higher calling.:-)
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LOL! Try this on your friends and see how they back slowly away!
In my modern, all-or-nothing uptight way, I find this sentence intriguing. What do you mean? Is that possible? Do you mean in a "comfort" sense? Or, like, artistically? *ponders this*
Heh. Well, I meant Sam appreciates Frodo physically and often wants to touch him for comfort or for whatever reason. Like when Frodo wakes up in Rivendell Sam strokes his hand, happy that it is no longer cold. There are many times when they both need physical contact for reassurance. Now, that doesn't have to be sexual, but it is physical: Hold my hand. Put your head in my lap.
Or, more obviously, there's the part where he's watching Frodo sleep and admiring his face when he sleeps. Tolkien writes this clear physical description of beauty and says Sam can't describe it in those terms but can only say, "He's like that and it shines through sometimes." So what we've got it someone admiring the face of their friend as they sleep and coming to the conclusion that "I love him, whether or no." It's something you usually associate with a lover--or perhaps also with a mother and child.
There's definitely a lot of comfort to it, but it's not always about just comfort. There's also the element of Frodo pleasing Sam's senses, liking to look at him, liking to care for him-including physically. With a lot of males if you asked them about physical aspects of their friends they either wouldn't know them or they'd claim they didn't. Sam, you know, could detail Frodo's every birthmark, tell you how he stirs his tea, how he sleeps. Part of this is from being his servant, but clearly Sam approaches his job as a higher calling.:-)