Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
My point isn't that Sam was alone in resisting, my point is that he was alone in making resistance look completely and utterly effortless.
And my point is that it is impossible to say that he would do it better than anyone else in his position. The ring works slowly, not quickly, when it comes to hobbits in particular. If Sam had worn the ring all that time and another hobbit had only just at the last moment been given it, who is to say that Frodo, Merry or Pippin would not have done exactly the same thing? I know Sam did good and all, but saying he is unique for doing what he did is simplifying things a lot as he was the only individual in all of middle earth who had the opportunity. Take any other hobbit (bar those who have been 'infected' by the ring over a long period of time) and they may have done the same. Even Gandalf, for all we know, may have resisted for at least a day or two - long enough. I'm sure some good men could have resisted, too, and elves, and possibly even dwarves. But we'll never know because we only had one person in that situation for the books.