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| NOTE: This page only gives information about Ralph Bakshi's version of Samwise Gamgee, as the original version and the versions from Rankin-Bass and Peter Jackson are not Scrappies, thus only information of the first animated iteration of Samwise should be put here. |
Samwise Gamgee is the tritagonist of the 1978 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings from Ralph Bakshi. He's an Hobbit gardener for most of his life but one day leaves his home in the Shire when his best friend and neighbor Frodo Baggins finds that he is charged with taking on a cursed ring referred to as the One Ring and must make the arduous journey across the land to see to its destruction. While the canonical character and his adaptation in the 2001-2003 Peter Jackson film series is universally beloved, his version in the Ralph Bakshi is considered far less amusing and cool.
He was voiced by Michael Scholes.
What Makes Him A Scrappy?[]
- The canonical version of Samwise is of a loyal and kindhearted simpleton gardener that will often go further he needs to go to protect his best friend Frodo and is sometimes interpreted as the true hero of the story as even Frodo himself seems to regard Sam as that; meanwhile, the 1978 movie represent him as an insufferable moron that acts more like a load to Frodo than the other way around.
- He's turned from a noble and brave loyal follower to Frodo into an incompetent goofball of a comic relief with nothing of the grace and bravery of the original character.
- He's considered by far the worst incarnation of the character which includes much more disliked adaptations like the 1980 unofficial sequel Return of the King or the infamous 1991 Sovietic miniseries Khraniteli.
- His voice is annoying.
- His design is way uglier and gonk-ish with a comically large nose than the character is usually portrayed.
- He constantly acts like a manchild and whines a lot more that the original character.
- The compressed adaptation nature of the movie means that a lot of his most important moments in the book are excluded.
- Unlike his canonical self, he constantly has to be saved by Frodo.
- It was probably the intention to give him more character development in Part II but since it was never made, he remains the scrappy of this adaptation.
- While the reception towards the 1978 movie is mixed around the fandom, he remains one of the few things everyone agrees was a poor choice. Later adaptations make an effort to represent Samwise truer to the text starting with the unofficial sequel by Rankin/Bass made in 1980.
- While this version of Sam did eventually get less buffoonish and more serious as the film went on, his inital impression and behavior throughout the majority of the movie meant that the damage was already done.
Trivia[]
- He is one of five Middle-earth Scrappies, along with Alfrid Lickspittle and Tauriel from The Hobbit trilogy, Galadriel from The Rings of Power, and Mika Milovana from the 1966 short film The Hobbit. Ironically, Samwise and Galadriel are the only ones who even existed in the books.
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