Story 100% checks out, because when Sam wore the Ring, the only thing it could summon up to tempt him was a great big perfect garden and his response was just ‘nah,I’ll do that myself then, won’t I?’
my family's wifi network was The Shire, so all our computers were hobbits for awhile. Sam was the desktop in the study, Frodo was the family room desktop, Merry was Mom's laptop, Pippin belonged to Patricia........ then we got to Nick and he couldn't think of a hobbit and said fuck it and named his computer Gandalf.