If you clicked on this expecting an interesting topic then I apologise.
Reading about Frodo being wakened by Meriadoc at the start of
The Old Forest made me wonder how Meriadoc managed to wake himself. It was around 4 in the morning when he got up.
I asked my parents what folk used to do back in the day if they wanted to get up before dawn. They just said,
"Folk didn't do that. They got up when it was light." Dad supposed that Merry had cast some sort of spell (he's not a fan of the book
).
Because dawn didn't break at 4 when Frodo was in Crickhollow, right? So how did Merry get up? And has anyone else ever posed this question?
