On: Christopher Tolkien has died

[arethuza]

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-to...