Pippin's Sixth Sense

[Diamond18]

Very good idea, Kalimac. I can't say that it occured to me while reading the book, but the instances you cited do seem to point to it. I do wonder though if they were just coincidences, and if say Merry was as rash as Pippin the well and the Palantír would have called out to him as well.

And then of course you could go back to the part in "The Hobbit" where Tolkien says:

It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them.

Absurd or not, it would certainly explain any magical tendencies that Pippin might exhibit.