Pippin's Sixth Sense

[Diamond18]

I agree with Orual about Merry and Pippin changing more than Tolkien says they did:

If they were now so large and magnificent, they were unchanged otherwise, unless they were indeed more fairspoken and more jovial and full of merriment that ever before.

That just can't be so, unless they reverted back after undergoing the change. Because there's already all these marked changes about them that we get to read about. Especially Merry, who got Black Breath in his face twice and came this close to dying.

So even though Tolkien says that they were "more jovial and full of merriment" they had to have at least some added wisdom and thoughtfulness in their manner. Or at least, I would hope so!

Okay, so that's wandering from Pippin's specific capabilites, but Orual's comment got me to thinking about that part that I disagree with Tolkien about.

[ December 12, 2002: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]