One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

— J.R.R Tolkien about Sam

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Samwise "Sam" Gamgee was Frodo Baggins' servant and the only original member of the Fellowship of the Ring to remain with him till the very end of the journey to Mount Doom.

He lived with his father, Hamfast Gamgee on Bagshot Row in the Shire, close to Bag End. Sam's mother was Bell Goodchild; he had five siblings: Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Marigold.

A gardener by trade, Sam seemed to be a simple Hobbit of plain speech.

Sam was one of the "Conspirators" who were summoned by Merry Brandybuck in order to watch over Frodo Baggins. Being the closest to Frodo, Sam was their "chief investigator" who eavesdropped on his talks with Gandalf the Wizard.

On 13 April, when Gandalf revealed to Frodo that Bilbo's ring is Sauron's One Ring, they noticed Sam eavesdropping. Initially suspected as a spy, Sam feigned innocent curiosity. As "punishment", Sam was made Frodo's first companion on his journey to Bree and Rivendell. Sam and Pippin  followed Frodo to his new house at Crickhollow where his and the Conspirators' role was revealed. Merry ed the travelers on their way to Bree. They ed through the Old Forest, the Barrow-downs and the Prancing Pony at Bree where they were ed by Aragorn.

When they reached Rivendell, Sam was beside Frodo's bed while he was recovering from the Morgul-wound he was inflicted on Weathertop. Sam also was caught eavesdropping on the Council of Elrond and insisted that he accompany Frodo on his quest to destroy the Ring.

In Lothlórien, Galadriel gave Sam a box containing earth from her orchard.

After the Breaking of the Fellowship, Sam was the only member of the Fellowship to remain with Frodo. When Gollum ed up with them, Sam remained distrustful of his loyalty to Frodo, and treated him with disdain, and partially pushed Gollum to betray Frodo in Shelob's Lair.

After Shelob attacked and seemingly killed Frodo, Sam took the Ring, intending to complete the quest, but upon learning that Frodo still lived, he rescued him from the Tower of Cirith Ungol and returned the Ring to him. Because he held the Ring for a time, he is considered one of the Ring-bearers.

Together, Sam and Frodo crossed Mordor to Mount Doom. Sam himself carrying Frodo up the slope for part of the way. After the destruction of the Ring, both Sam and Frodo were honored by King Elessar for their deeds.

After the War of the Ring, and the Scouring of the Shire, Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful and beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of Galadriel's soil at the root of each. He planted a silver nut in the Party Field where the Party Tree had once been, and the nut grew into a Mallorn tree.

He married Rose "Rosie" Cotton. In honor for restoring the Shire his family was given the name Gardner.

They had thirteen children: Elanor the Fair, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman.

When Frodo sailed on the White Ship, at the end of the Third Age, Sam inherited Bag End and was entrusted the Red Book of Westmarch.

After Will Whitfoot resigned his post as Mayor of Michel Delving , Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for seven consecutive 7-year .

After his wife died he entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and, according to her, he went to the Grey Havens to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.

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"No, Sam. Not yet, anyway, not further than the Havens. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while. Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do."

— Frodo to Sam before Frodo sailed to the undying lands