There is a letter Tolkien wrote to a fan where he says: "My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the

There is a letter Tolkien wrote to a fan where he says: "My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself." https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-tolkiens-batmen/ https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-to...