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Samwise

Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age! Bane of Barad-dûr! Gorgoroth reborn as a glorious garden at his command!

If he would but claim the Ring …

No!!

Sauron's Ring was as likely to grant Sam power as Sam was to refuse mushrooms!

Slowly but surely, Sam bested his enemy. Frodo needed him. Him, not some Ring-addled halfwit who'd lost every ounce of hobbit sense!

As if he'd ever claim anything responsible for tormenting his poor master.

“I'll find you, sir,” vowed Sam, as Orodruin glowed ominously on the horizon, “and then we'll get rid of it once and for all.”

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