His thought turned to the ring, but there was no comfort there, only dread in danger.

No sooner had he come in sight of Mount Doom, burning far away, than he was aware of a change in his burden.

As it drew near the great furnaces where, in the deeps of time it had been shaped and forged, the ring's power grew.

And it became more fell, untamable except by some mighty will.

As Sam stood there, even though the ring was not on him but hanging by its chain about his neck,

he felt himself enlarged. As if he were robed in a huge

distorted shadow of himself. A vast and ominous threat halted upon the walls of Mordor.

He felt that he had from now on only two choices. To forbear the ring, though it would torment him or to claim it, and challenge the power that sat in its dark hold beyond the valley of shadows. 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 Baradour.

And then all the clouds rolled away and the white sun shone and at his command the

veil of gorgeroth 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 his love of his master that helped most to hold him firm.

But also, deep down in him 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 do, not a garden swollen to a realm,

his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

And anyways, old these notions are only a trick, he said to himself.

Excerpt concerning Samwise Gamgy from J.R. Tolkien's master work, The Return of the King.

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