[Diamond18]

I liked them, but there wasn't enough of them to make me really happy. Every time they came on screen I perked up, but when it went to something else right away I thought, "A short scene again!"<P>A lot of this is tied in with Treebeard and the Ents, but I'll leave that for the Treebeard thread.<P>So, the parts before they meet Treebeard. Loved 'em. Happy, happy! Pippin uses his wits, and the Uruk-hai are just drop-dead scary. Did you catch the cannibalism? Eek! Grisnakh and that other Orc who wanted to eat Merry and Pippin were creepy ugly, and M&P's reactions to them were good. "What about their legs? They don't need them, do they?"<P>My one complaint about them is that after the Orc escape they are allowed to be forgotten for lengthly periods of time, and then their scenes are mostly riding around on Treebeard. I liked them in the Entmoot. But I missed the Pippin/Palantír stealing scene as well as them being the gatekeepers of Isengard, etc. But that is simply a matter of being patient and waiting till RotK (I hope), so I won't complain too much.<P>I'm not sure what you mean by Merry knowing too much. What was it that he knew? Forgive me, I only saw it once so far and there was a lot to take in.