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Lyta_Underhill · 10-10-2003, 08:17 PM

As I recall in the books, Pippin was very good friends with Farmer Maggot and was the ONLY reason he didn't set the dogs on the group, and Frodo was the one who should have been afraid, because his name had been feared among Farmer Maggot's mushrooms in his youth! I always liked Frodo telling Farmer Maggot that he had missed a good friend for 30 years because he was so afraid to go back there after all the mushrooms he stole! And then the farmer's wife fixes him more! I thought it a charming bit of hobbitiana, myself! I do understand why they couldn't use it in the movie, but I find Pippin running like the dickens away from Farmer Maggot's dogs and Frodo's seeming unconcern or confusion ironic for that reason!Cheers, Lyta

10-10-2003, 08:17 PM	#15
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	As I recall in the books, <I>Pippin</I> was very good friends with Farmer Maggot and was the ONLY reason he didn't set the dogs on the group, and <I>Frodo</I> was the one who should have been afraid, because his name had been feared among Farmer Maggot's mushrooms in his youth! I always liked Frodo telling Farmer Maggot that he had missed a good friend for 30 years because he was so afraid to go back there after all the mushrooms he stole! And then the farmer's wife fixes him more! I thought it a charming bit of hobbitiana, myself! I do understand why they couldn't use it in the movie, but I find Pippin running like the dickens away from Farmer Maggot's dogs and Frodo's seeming unconcern or confusion ironic for that reason!<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”