Samwise Gamgee, often simply called Sam, is the deuteragonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic novel, The Lord of the Rings, and in Peter Jackson's film trilogy. Sam is a Hobbit, a halfling race who mostly live quite rural lives. Sam was a gardener for most of his life but one day leaves his home in the Shire when his friend and neighbor Frodo Baggins finds that he is charged with taking on a cursed ring referred to as the One Ring and most make the arduous journey across the land to see to its destruction.
Sam appears as the deuteragonist of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), the tritagonist of The Two Towers (2002) and a major character of The Return of the King (2003). He was portrayed by actor Sean Astin.