Honoring the Hobbits - ROTK spoilers

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Also, I like how Merry and Pippin were honored too, granted they may not have gone to Mordor and back, but for two young hobbits they did a lot of courageous things and deserved about as much honor as Frodo and Sam recieved.

I posted earlier on in this debate, forgiving Jackson having Aragorn bow to the 4 hobbits, but on 3rd viewing (ie not bawling my eyes out like a baby) I noticed that Jackson does a slow zoom in on first Frodo and Sam, and then directly onto Frodo, showing us (I think) Jackson's slant on who the bow was mostly intended for. To me this works splendidly.

But fair point to the quoter above. Without Merry and Pippin we would have had no Ents assiting at Helm's Deep (via the Hourns) and Isengard. No distraction for Sauron in the Palantir, no death of the Witch King (and thus maybe no one alive in Minas Tirith), no Faramir to wed Eoywn to join the houses of Gondor and Rohan (indeed no Eoywn either!), etc.

But then with No frodo and Sam, we would have No Middle-earth as we know it. Sorry, Frodo and Sam win hands down!