Re: Happy Apple

On 19/04/2012 14:55, Wayne Morrison wrote:
> In the Lord of the Rings movies, Merry and Pippin were as youthful idiots.
> Pippin especially, but Merry as well. As I recall, in the books Pippin
> *was* a youthful idiot, but Merry was more of a middle-aged, responsible,
> non-idiot hobbit.
>
> It's been a while since I've read the books (around the time the movies
> were released), but am I remembering correctly about the books? Was Merry
> an idiot or a non-idiot?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
> PS. Normally, I'd look this up myself rather than bothering people about
> it. Jo has decided our house needs sorting and organizing and all. Our
> books are in an uproar and nothing is where it should be, nor will I be
> able to find anything until this task is mostly done. Maybe next year.
>

Merry and Pippin were both in their "tweens" - not yet reached their
majority of 33 years of age. Merry was generally more thoughtful and
cautious (just) than his cousin - but he and Pippin had already decided
to travel with Frodo to Rivendell, even when he was pretending that he
was only moving to a little cottage near the Old Forrest. (Sam let them
in on the secret) Shame that part of the story got lost - where Sam
first meets Elves in the woods of the Shire, the bath/beer song, etc.

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Jette Goldie
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