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Bêthberry · 08-15-2006, 01:24 PM

morm, I love a linguistic argument!

++ MERRY

Sauce, re your query about Merry yesterday. Merry isn't one of the weakest and smallest. He survives the Quest very well, thank you very much, returns with no small amount of mental equanimity to The Shire, to become very much a well to do squire himself. In more modern terms, he might be seen as a socially-climbing bourgeoisie, very able to find himself a comfortable niche anywhere--so much like the rest of us as to be, well, ho hum.

08-15-2006, 01:24 PM	#206
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	morm, I love a linguistic argument! ++ MERRY Sauce, re your query about Merry yesterday. Merry isn't one of the weakest and smallest. He survives the Quest very well, thank you very much, returns with no small amount of mental equanimity to The Shire, to become very much a well to do squire himself. In more modern terms, he might be seen as a socially-climbing bourgeoisie, very able to find himself a comfortable niche anywhere--so much like the rest of us as to be, well, ho hum. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.