need me a t-shirt that says “THE TOOKS SHOT FIRST”
Tom Cotton: So there are Men all over the Shire, menacing people, locking them up, tearing down trees and good hobbit holes…all through Hobbiton, Bywater, Buckland…
Pippin: What about Tuckborough?
Cotton: Your father initiated guerrilla warfare and they’ve been at a military impasse for months.
Pippin: I love my family so fucking much.
it’s just, you spend much of The Hobbit and parts of Lord of the Rings with the narration periodically being like, “and then his Tookish heritage reared up and said, “don’t you want to just go feral?” But it’s narration, background. We’ve never met Belladonna Baggins née Took and we never do. Pippin repeatedly follows his friends into inane danger despite being repeatedly told not to, or sometimes just goes by himself, but so do Merry, Sam, and Frodo, and hey, Pippin’s the hobbit equivalent of 17. Maybe it’s just Pippin.
And then you get to the Scouring of the Shire and it’s like, oh. Oh no. They’re all Like That.




















