[Diamond18]

Yes - a shame they left that out. It better be in the EE (I've seen still shots of him bowing before Theoden. It has to be!)<P>I liked what I saw of Merry. But I didn't really get the same feeling of acute helplessness and lonliness, because the Ride of the Rohirrim was edited down. I just about cry when I read those parts of the book. Oh well. I also missed the way he trailed into Minas Tirith, almost forgotten in the drama over Eowyn and Theoden, and Pippin found him wandering alone. (Let's all pause to burst into tears.) The way they did it in the movie was okay, fine, all that, but I just <I>really</I> loved that part of the book. I didn't expect it though, because it takes a lot of time and has to do with the Houses of Healing which they cut out.<P>His part in the slaying of the Witch King, though there, could easily be missed by non-bookers. Oh well. Their loss, not mine.