LotR3-RotK-Seq09

[Lalaith]

I've just been listening to RotK on the CD and Pippin's song...I have to say how much I agree with this:

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.

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.