At the center of The Lord of the Rings is the unbreakable friendship between Frodo Baggins and Samwise "Sam" Gamgee, lovingly played by Elijah Wood and Sean Astin in the epic movie adaptations.

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy revolved around the quest to destroy the One Ring, which could only be done by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom, the volcano in which it had ...