#rosy cotton

[warriorcatfindr]

Rosefall:

A confident calico she-cat with large red and black patches.

[velvet4510]

Ok, time for a hot take.

It really bothers me that Rosie and Sam’s relationship is reduced and made so shallow in the films, with the implication that they’ve never even talked to each other, and Sam is pining for this girl he doesn’t really know….

Like …

… this actually misses the entire point of their relationship in the book.

In the book, Sam and Rosie grew up together. His warmest memories that bring him comfort in the darkest place are the memories of playing with her in the pool when they were kids.

The point of Tolkien’s Rosie is that she’s someone familiar to Sam, the face that comes into his mind when he thinks of home. He remembers an actual moment he spent with her, a moment of fun and bonding. Then when he comes home, it turns out she could somehow sense the moment the Ring was destroyed, and knew he was coming home. They have this special, deep bond that brings Sam a sense of comfort and stability.

She’s not supposed to be some distant, unknown figure that Sam has built up in his head but has never actually talked to or gotten to know. That’s literally the antithesis of Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton.

It’s like the films swap Sam’s initial relationships with Rosie and with Frodo. In the movies, he starts off more familiar and friendly with Frodo; they apparently go to the pub together frequently like typical buddies do, whereas Rosie is in another world, dancing and making drinks behind the bar, and Sam is just too unsure of himself to even make small talk with her.

But Tolkien’s portrait is the exact opposite. Rosie is the one who Sam spends a lot of time with and has known for a long while. Frodo is the one who Sam is distant from and doesn’t really have the nerve to make chit-chat with, because he is Frodo’s servant and thus he thinks it’s not his place to be too friendly with “his betters,” as his dad says. (And then the journey takes the two of them out of that restrictive class system and frees them to bond and get to know each other as people.)

Then when they come home, there’s an actual sense of coming home, because Rosie embodies everything that is familiar and safe for Sam. Not everything that is unknown and scary.

[kwistowee]

"If ever I was to marry someone, it would've been her." @lotrweek 2024 | Day 5 → here with me

[condohavenoking]

[beardedmrbean]

[merilles]

Ladies of the Ring 💍✨

[crybabyfucktoy]

do you like my nails? 💅🎀🌸🩷

[autistook]

ON THIS DAY | October 6th

Samwise returns home

[hxans]

Frodo Baggins, proposing an ot3 just like that.

[postmail]

while sam was pretty average by non-hobbit standards, i think he would have been a total hearthrob back in the shire. i mean seriously, good looking (by hobbit standards), a gardener, humble, hardworking, and he knows how to cook well? rosie was in the trenches dude. just fighting for her life out there

sam gamgee takes off his shirt on a hot summer day, 4 dead 27 wounded

[frodo-with-glasses]

R.I.P. Frodo Baggins, cause of death: cuteness overload

[mischieffoal]

Hot girl summer is over it's time for ~Hobbit Girl Autumn~!

Musical!Rosie Cotton my beloved!!

Watermill Theatre in 2023 (Charlotte Grayson), and Chicago Shakes Theatre in 2024 (Suzanne Hannau). (Take more pictures of Suzanne in Aotearoa challenge photographers!!!)

[kwistowee]

“Sam blushed... for Rosie’s eyes were shining and she was smiling at him.” - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

[condohavenoking]

˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗ Wingman Frodo ˗ˋˏ ♡ ˎˊ˗

[remusjohnslupin]

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

(dedicated to @thcrin // 'a whole decade!' celebration!)