11/22/2023 0 Comments Sam and frodo gay burden meme![]() Instead, counting others as more significant than ourselves is to sacrifice our desires for their needs rather than our needs for their desires. To count others more significant than ourselves is not to ignore our necessary needs such as food, water, and sleep. Everything Jesus did was never out of an ulterior motive, but in His humility He became nothing for us so that we might be reconciled to God. “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves” ( Philippians 2:3). One of the marks of being a true friend is the willingness to sacrifice. Biblical masculinity covers a variety of other subjects, but for the purpose of Sam and Frodo as our examples, I will be discussing the aforementioned attributes. True masculinity is a godly man who is willing to make sacrifices, speaks up for the benefit of his friend, perseveres in the midst of troubles throughout the friendship, and is not afraid to show his love for his friend. That is the false masculinity our society has created. ![]() Women can certainly relate to what I’m going to discuss in their own same-sex friendships, and men can also use this friendship towards women friends and vice versa but with more caution, but just keep in mind that I’ll be specifically talking about masculine friendships.īy “masculine” I do not mean hairy men who grow bushy beards and belittle those who cannot grow them, wrestle each other to show their domination to the opposite sex and over each other, yell at sports while drinking beer, and hide all their emotions. Since I am a man, and Sam and Frodo are men, I will be focusing specifically on friendship between men rather than women. Is this really a secret homosexual relationship, or is it something deeper in which they exemplify true masculine friendship? I argue that the friendship Sam and Frodo portray is one in which a true masculine friendship is one where the men carry each other’s burdens and are unafraid to show their love for one another. In our society, it is not acceptable that two men are so close that they cry in each other’s arms, kiss the other on the head in a non-sexual manner, and carry the other up to Mount Doom to destroy evil-taking the other’s burdens upon himself. Certainly two male friends cannot have an intimate relationship without being gay! (sarcasm) In a society that highly sexualises everything, this “theory” is not surprising. Because they are so intimately close, they surmise, this must mean they’re gay. I’ve heard and read asinine theories that Sam and Frodo are gay. As a theological writer, I could easily write about LOTR’s allegory of the worldly struggle with darkness and connect it to sin, but I’m going to focus on something else that’s never discussed: Sam and Frodo’s friendship. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word, Merry scolds.ĭon’t go where I can’t follow, Sam weeps.I love The Lord of the Rings. It is an epic tale of struggle through darkness, both personal and military struggles. You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end…. They go only because they would not be parted from thee – because they love thee, Éowyn whispers. The ents constantly followed the entwives to their gardens, even though they didn’t care for them much, and the story goes that one day they will follow them and find “a land where both our hearts may rest”, a place where they can both be happy. The Three Hunters push themselves to near impossible feats of endurance pursuing their friends when they are in danger. Éowyn and Faramir stand together on the walls of Minas Tirith as they wait for the end. ![]() Sam swears to return to where he thinks Frodo died after the duty is done, but in that moment, the hardest thing is not the weight of the Ring or the fear of Sauron, but the burden of leaving him. Gimli follows Legolas and Galadriel into the West, and bears a love so powerful that he is the one exception to the rule he bore no ring and yet is welcomed for the sake of his love for them. Tom Bombadil follows the river to find Goldberry and once he finds her he’s always following the path home to her the only paths in the Old Forest that are dependable and constant are the ones that lead to his home and to Goldberry’s pool. “I have my house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting,” for him to follow her home at last. Beren and Lúthien follow each other into the darkest places in the world, or rather Beren goes, alone, repeatedly, and Lúthien pursues him with the same fervor that he once used to pursue her. Sam, Merry, and Pippin will not let Frodo leave the Shire alone. Amroth will not leave Middle-earth when Nimrodel cannot follow. Arwen chooses to follow Aragorn’s fate instead of the one she was born to. ![]() The purest expression of Love in Tolkien’s works is following ![]()
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