Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt