I am quite familiar with Willow's body of work. :)
I was thinking you must be, but not everyone I talk to has read her stories outside the main body of RoP, and your comment made me think perhaps you didn't know Sam was on Frodo's dance card, but in the future. :D
I also think that Sam himself has some growing up to do as well - of a different kind than Frodo, of course.
Actually, Frodosweetstuff, I think her Sam in RoP:Bag End shows surprising maturity and emotional poise for his years and level of experience. He's much further along than Frodo was at a similar same age, or even at Frodo's present age. And what Sam doesn't have in sexual experience (which is where Frodo is waaaaaay ahead of him), he will gain in two shakes when the time comes.
A person as solid and well-adjusted as her Sam only needs to love and the rest will follow, I am betting. Her Sam just doesn't have the sort of anxiety and self-consciousness that would get in the way of letting himself give himself to a sexual experience with someone he cared about. For Frodo, who in her story is a bit of a mess, everything has been a hurdle, even or especially sex, which he is driven to have but enjoys in a driven way. He only now, post-illness on the "Gillyflower" seems to be enjoying not just the sex but the person he's having it with, while he's having it. Sam, I am betting, will have no such trouble.
Of course, Willow has tripped me up several times in the past when I have tried to see ahead to where she is going, so I could be ALL wrong, LOL.
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Date: 2006-04-25 01:42 pm (UTC)I was thinking you must be, but not everyone I talk to has read her stories outside the main body of RoP, and your comment made me think perhaps you didn't know Sam was on Frodo's dance card, but in the future. :D
I also think that Sam himself has some growing up to do as well - of a different kind than Frodo, of course.
Actually, Frodosweetstuff, I think her Sam in RoP:Bag End shows surprising maturity and emotional poise for his years and level of experience. He's much further along than Frodo was at a similar same age, or even at Frodo's present age. And what Sam doesn't have in sexual experience (which is where Frodo is waaaaaay ahead of him), he will gain in two shakes when the time comes.
A person as solid and well-adjusted as her Sam only needs to love and the rest will follow, I am betting. Her Sam just doesn't have the sort of anxiety and self-consciousness that would get in the way of letting himself give himself to a sexual experience with someone he cared about. For Frodo, who in her story is a bit of a mess, everything has been a hurdle, even or especially sex, which he is driven to have but enjoys in a driven way. He only now, post-illness on the "Gillyflower" seems to be enjoying not just the sex but the person he's having it with, while he's having it. Sam, I am betting, will have no such trouble.
Of course, Willow has tripped me up several times in the past when I have tried to see ahead to where she is going, so I could be ALL wrong, LOL.