[Dancing_Hobbit]

the interesting thing about Merry and Pippin, and, i think, an important point,is that although they lost their innocence, it wasn't entirely a bad thing. they gained so many new friends and in many ways became the only way i can describe it is fuller hobbits. it seems like the closer you were to the ring, the more you lost, which shows the ultimate evil of it: that it forced good creatures to sacrifice so much.