I've just been listening to RotK on the CD and Pippin's song...I have to say how much I agree with this:
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Pippin’s heartbreak, at the end of his song, tells us all that we need to know. PJ was more subtle here than usual, and I like it. Gandalf, sitting like an old fisherman by the sea, knows the fate of the soldiers as well. Bells toll off in the distance, for whom we know.
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Reading further through this thread, which I hadn't before...the whole Merry/Eowyn/Dernhelm thing, which I had SO been looking forward to, was really spoilt for me. The stern, fey, steely young Dernhelm, with his/her hint of empathy and sorrow...become, as you say, a flushed girlie dressing up her dolly.