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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by arethuza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:28AM (#31847585)
Tolkien write about Sam:

"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...

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