Merry: confused awe
Frodo:Â confused awe
Sam:Â confused awe
Pippin: finally iâm getting the respect i deserve from these peasantsÂ
so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.
I donât think there will come time when Iâm not reblogging this. Sorry guys.Â
no no no you guys donât understand, Pippin is someone really important in the Shire! The books donât talk about it a lot, and the movies wonât touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. Heâs second in line to becoming military leader of all Hobbits. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but heâs completely aware of it, and educated for it, and thatâs why heâs such an over privileged little shit in the books.
I thought it was a shame the movies didnât talk about class differences in the Shire. Also puts M&P stealing food in an uglier light.
To be fair, at the time of the Party, Pippin would have been 12, which puts it back into a more acceptable light. Â And theyâre stealing food from Bilbo, a wealthy and eccentric family member, which again makes things a bit different.
But yes, when they call Pippin Ernil i Perrianath - Prince of the Halflings - they are actually completely spot on.
And when Pippin tells Bergil âmy father farms the land around Tuckboroughâ heâs deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior.  Itâs Pippinâs most adult moment in the series.  Bergil is engaging in a status contest which Pippin can totally win - but instead chooses not to compete.  Pippin is a gilded and spoiled lordling in the Shire, but he becomes a Man of Gondor.
Yeah, to add a bit of unnecessary trivia/level of preciseness, Frodo is the oldest of the four; he was born in 2968, was (obviously) 33 at the time of the Party, and so heâs 51 here. Samâs second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merryâs two years younger than Sam, making him 18 or 19 in 3001, when the Party took place, and Pippin was born in 2990, so he was actually 10 or 11 during the Party, and during this scene theyâre ~37 and ~29, respectively.
So yeah, Pippinâs the youngest by a lot. Plus, taking hobbit aging into account, he really is still in the equivalent of his teens; remember the Party was half to celebrate Frodoâs coming-of-age at 33, and Pippinâs around twenty years younger than Frodo.Â
This fucked me up. I didnât read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilboâs gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.
