LinksOcarina wrote...
Nerevar-as wrote...
The Ring didn´t walk itself to Mordor, you know. Hero doesn´t mean "do absolutely everything perfectly by yourself".
That's why we consider him a hero, even if he turns out to be a villian in the last moments, really.
Nothing is perfect, I agree, but were talking about the semantics of what defines a hero through a mythological and story-telling lens, which do encompass different cliches to tell their story.
"Already the Ring tempted him, gnawing at his will and reason. Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong, Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow of Barad-dur. And then all the clouds rolled away, and the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit. He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and all this could be.
"In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."
Samwise Gamgee. Hero
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