And Sam only had the ring for a little while, though he had had it around him for quite awhile. In a way, though, it can be compared to Frodo trying to give the ring to Galadriel - he'd been carrying it for a while and been around it's presence even longer, considering that Bilbo carried it with him. And he was willing to give it up to the council in Riverdale, though we see him connecting to it physically at that point.
Sam hadn't had to deal with carrying that kind of evil on his skin for that long - it takes a while for the ring to corrupt the halflings, we do see that, and Sam didn't have it on for long enough.
And that's it, exactly - there are so many essential things, so many people needed to destroy the ring and save middle-earth.
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Date: 2003-12-20 12:32 am (UTC)Sam hadn't had to deal with carrying that kind of evil on his skin for that long - it takes a while for the ring to corrupt the halflings, we do see that, and Sam didn't have it on for long enough.
And that's it, exactly - there are so many essential things, so many people needed to destroy the ring and save middle-earth.