Still, he admitted to Stern: "[It was] the greatest gift of my life … I'd do it for half the money." Astin, who played the ...

Gamgee, a man from a borough of South London, learned from friends and family that his name appeared during a 1955 radio presentation of The Lord of the Rings. They told him after hearing it ...

The Lord of the Rings was, of course, none other than Sauron himself, but Samwise Gamgee had the One Ring for a brief spell too. J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, LotR, was released in three parts ...

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It seems as if the legends were true, because Lego The Shire has just been unveiled after months of leaks and rumors - and Samwise Gamgee himself, Sean Astin, has pulled back the curtain.

If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan, you may be surprised to find out there’s a real Sam Gamgee out there. The real Gamgee felt surprised when he discovered that a fictional character in the ...