“I know all about masters and servants, Mr. Frodo. If a machine does your thinking for you, seems to me that pretty soon you won’t be much good at thinking,” Sam said, agreeing with Frodo.

Sam, who shouldn’t have been at the Council but was there nonetheless, uses common sense, which Tolkien believed was found chiefly among gardeners and people who have never used Twitter. Sam is the true hero of The Lord of the Rings.