Today, February 14th, is the time when many couples have a whole day to show their true love. However, there is something more powerful on this day that moves away from the theme of lovers and that has even captivated one of the main actors of the saga: The Sam goes lentin meme.
Many users upload this meme every year on their social networks, but very few users know the incredible but absurd origin of this joke that appeared 10 years ago and that has become a tradition that very few miss.
Thanks to the work of Roldier, a well-known Twitter user, we have obtained more information about the origin of this story and how Chapatorra, another internet content creator, started this tradition. But first of all, let’s start with the origin and creator of the meme.
A Twitter meme that got out of hand
During a February 14 between 2014 and 2015a user named McDuff foam decided to create a meme called “Sam va Lentin” on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Although the meme did not go viral on Twitter at the time, several people saved it as if it were gold to begin publishing it en masse the following year.
From here, everything that happened was magical: the meme It turned into a kind of snowball., and as Valentine’s Day arrived in the following years, people began to upload the meme en masse, and even make different versions of the meme such as “Samba Lenin” and “Sam Peleao”, among many others. In 2017the meme experienced its first big success and from then until 2024its popularity has increased exponentially.
The meme became so popular that even Sean Astinthe actor who played the character of Samwise Gamyi in the Lord of the Rings saga and who was the protagonist that day in Spain, he instantly fell in love with the image. Astin published a tweet with the image that left an impression on all Spaniards. But this didn’t stop here.
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The Sam va Lentín meme was not limited to Twitter, but also reached The Lord of the Rings Online, an MMO inspired by Tolkien’s work and developed by Standing Stone Games. El Chapatorra, previously mentioned along with Roldier, organized an event called “The day of the Hobbit“.
Throughout the last yearsChapa has summoned a good number of players on his Twitch channel 2 hours before Valentine’s Day (that is, at 10:00 p.m. on February 13) to all create a Hobbit and perform the journey from the Shire to Rivendellfollowing the same path as the movies.
The result of this event was very goodand as you can see in the video at the beginning of the article, the Internet adopted the meme for a day and enjoyed a journey full of laughter and funny moments in which Sam va Lentin has gone from being a joke to an Internet tradition.
