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[Lotr] Can Frodo and Sam's friendship ever be the same after the ending of the fellowship?
gpt
In what sense?

Frodo and Sam grew close, they matured, they saved each other's lives. They saw each other through battles, kidnapping, mental anguish, and the hardest times a person may ever have to face.

Their friendship will never be "the same" as it was before the journey. Frodo was just a nice local hobbit, with awkward and youthful Sam as a neighborhood friend. They will never be the same people after their voyage.

But during that trip, they forged a bond deeper than what existed before. It would be like friends that went off to war together, fought side-by-side on Iwo Jima, saw their friends die around them and encountered the worst things in the world. But at the end, they stayed true to each other, and no one could trust someone as deeply as they trust each other.

Their friendship is not the same. It never will be that sort of playful, innocent, youthful friendship. But it will be a firm and lasting friendship deeper than before.