Why was Merry at the last battle?

[thewichtking]

where getting of the subject this thread is on merry

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Originally Posted by thewichtking

where getting of the subject this thread is on merry

Slightly! Think that your thread, thewichtking, has been hijacked. Welcome to the Downs, by the way.

Anyway, in the Extended version of RotK, we get a brief moment in the Houses of Healing - far too little for me. Merry is no where to be seen, and so why he's not in the vanguard would be a mystery. For example, who would he speak with regarding 'those that have gone east to meet their Doom?' The healers? The Herbmaster? Ioreth?

Eowyn gets a moment with Faramir, and Merry would be a third wheel in that scene.

And so Merry is sent east.

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by thewichtking

where getting of the subject this thread is on merry

This is one of the hallmarks of discussion threads on the 'Downs. A very standard occurrence, actually. When the original discussion has run its course (and what more can be said of Merry being plopped indecorously down at the Black Gates on the whim of an egoistic director?), the discussion digresses into tangents.

Don't worry, it'll come around again. It sometimes takes four or five years, but someone will post on the original topic again.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Don't worry, it'll come around again. It sometimes takes four or five years, but someone will post on the original topic again.

You called?

I think it would be funny if, in an ode to Merry's pointless appearance at the battle of the Black Gate, they got him to show up at the Battle of Five Armies. It would be quirky, you know? Fans would love it.

[Sarumian]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

You called?

I think it would be funny if, in an ode to Merry's pointless appearance at the battle of the Black Gate, they got him to show up at the Battle of Five Armies. It would be quirky, you know? Fans would love it.

Why not, but only together with Pip