Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee

The bond between Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee is the quiet engine of the entire quest to destroy the One Ring, a relationship that begins as the conventional tie of a gentlehobbit to his gardener and deepens into one of the most consequential friendships in the history of Middle-earth. It is through this partnership that the Ring is carried to the fire of Mount Doom, and it is Sam's unwavering devotion that time and again rescues the mission from despair. Their story is one of unequal stations made equal by shared ordeal, of a servant who becomes a hero, and of a master whose greatest act of trust is to accept that he cannot, and should not, go alone.