Samwise the Wise

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights, we shouldn't even be here…but we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end…because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was…when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it's only a passing thing…this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you…that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

*Shire theme plays*

Good old Sam. I love the guy. Here they are coming off a Nazgul attack, with Shelob and more right in front of them, and he can think well enough to shed some hope on the situation. Hope is often one of the first things to go when we look at how awful the world is getting, but while there is terrible wickedness and darkness all around us, there are still pockets of light dotting the Earth, and as Frodo and Sam proved, that one little light can make all the difference for the world.