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This is old, but i'm 99% sure I never posted it- I can't find it in my gallery anywhere. Dialog taken verbatim from LOTR: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. Designs are ... mine based on the written descriptions of the characters & influenced by how they're portrayed in other media. So strictly speaking these designs are probably only 75% or so mine, but the important thing is I know it doesn't look like the movies lol

I did a series of little comics like this that can all be seen here: ach-sss-no.tumblr.com/post/663…

...and they will be posted here too, if they still look OK to me a year and a half later, which not all of them will <_<

I like this bit because of how POV was used in the book... this scene is from Sam's point of view, and we see his logical reasoning that
a) gollum is a known cannibal, and also hungry, and also untrustworthy, and also i don't think he's even promised not to eat anybody. he's also generally sketchy, and in many ways has given signs of having bad intentions
b) therefore, sleeping near him is dangerous. I am not sure how clear it was in the movies, because I watched them with prior knowledge from the books and already knew this- I don't remember how it was re-established- but the books are pretty convincing that Gollum would be completely capable of overpowering and killing either hobbit alone unless that hobbit was armed and/or lucky, and that he could do so on basically no provocation because he has zero compunctions against killing people.

Therefore, Sam decides to do this to make sure the villain is really asleep.

It makes sense to Sam, so it made sense to me at first and I didn't question it until I realized

a) either gollum is planning to do a murder, and sam is going close to his face and annoying him while frodo is over there asleep and unable to intervene

b) or gollum is not planning to do a murder, but if he's suddenly woken up to find an edible hobbit an inch away from his face while frodo is over there asleep and unable to intervene, that might change

Either way, it's just another example of how Sam is 110% committed to mr. frodo's personal safety and 0% committed to his own, a trait which previously led to him throwing himself in a river and will eventually lead to him stabbing a spider eldritch god.

Also, the book has this thing that I don't remember being present in the movies (or at least, not as present) where Sam will repeat Gollum's speech affectations to him ('fissh') in a way that suggests to me that Sam is getting really personally fed up with them, as you would, if you had to travel with gollum for many stressful hours on foot through the worst part of the world. Also, it's an acknowledgement by the story that Sam has noticed these speech patterns and they are weird and they are also oddly catchy. I always enjoy it when a story has some internal acknowledgement that something is so weird that characters in-universe should be reacting to it. Especially if that acknowledgement involves passive-aggressively hissing 'fissh' in someone's ear.

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This is old, but i'm 99% sure I never posted it- I can't find it in my gallery anywhere. Dialog taken verbatim from LOTR: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. Designs are ... mine based on the written descriptions of the characters & influenced by how they're portrayed in other media. So strictly speaking these designs are probably only 75% or so mine, but the important thing is I know it doesn't look like the movies lol

I did a series of little comics like this that can all be seen here: ach-sss-no.tumblr.com/post/663…

...and they will be posted here too, if they still look OK to me a year and a half later, which not all of them will <_<

I like this bit because of how POV was used in the book... this scene is from Sam's point of view, and we see his logical reasoning that
a) gollum is a known cannibal, and also hungry, and also untrustworthy, and also i don't think he's even promised not to eat anybody. he's also generally sketchy, and in many ways has given signs of having bad intentions
b) therefore, sleeping near him is dangerous. I am not sure how clear it was in the movies, because I watched them with prior knowledge from the books and already knew this- I don't remember how it was re-established- but the books are pretty convincing that Gollum would be completely capable of overpowering and killing either hobbit alone unless that hobbit was armed and/or lucky, and that he could do so on basically no provocation because he has zero compunctions against killing people.

Therefore, Sam decides to do this to make sure the villain is really asleep.

It makes sense to Sam, so it made sense to me at first and I didn't question it until I realized

a) either gollum is planning to do a murder, and sam is going close to his face and annoying him while frodo is over there asleep and unable to intervene

b) or gollum is not planning to do a murder, but if he's suddenly woken up to find an edible hobbit an inch away from his face while frodo is over there asleep and unable to intervene, that might change

Either way, it's just another example of how Sam is 110% committed to mr. frodo's personal safety and 0% committed to his own, a trait which previously led to him throwing himself in a river and will eventually lead to him stabbing a spider eldritch god.

Also, the book has this thing that I don't remember being present in the movies (or at least, not as present) where Sam will repeat Gollum's speech affectations to him ('fissh') in a way that suggests to me that Sam is getting really personally fed up with them, as you would, if you had to travel with gollum for many stressful hours on foot through the worst part of the world. Also, it's an acknowledgement by the story that Sam has noticed these speech patterns and they are weird and they are also oddly catchy. I always enjoy it when a story has some internal acknowledgement that something is so weird that characters in-universe should be reacting to it. Especially if that acknowledgement involves passive-aggressively hissing 'fissh' in someone's ear.