To become Samwise Gamgee

I could not identify more with a movie character when Frodo despairs, "I can't do this" to Sam, trudging on, unending, through Mordor. While the trilogy took viewers through the classic good versus evil battle, I have never experienced so strongly, with any other films, the emotions that the characters go through. Frodo's laborious plough uphill through a thicket of danger and uncertainty to a glorious just-in-sight-but-not-yet-there end made me wonder if we - Frodo, Sam and me (by now, as a totally absorbed viewer, an inextricable part of that journey) - would ever get to Mount Doom. Would that ring ever be 'cast back into its fires'? I must confess, though, that I was a bit disappointed by the end when I first saw the last film in the trilogy because I thought such a glorious journey would have an even glorious end with Frodo throwing in the ring with theatrics and heroism. Now, however, the end seems perfect. The films were not theatrical, afterall. They just successfully built up an atmosphere of drama. A hallmark of well-made movies in my opinion. 
I find the films uplifting. They make you believe that there is light at the end of a long, dark and seemingly endless tunnel. And, I don't know what Frodo or I would do without Sam! "Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't", he says and Oh! how well he, that line, and those films give hope.