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The Fellowship When I was a kid, my folks basically told me I was a hobbit. I cherish the memory of them reading all these books to me--and I turned around and read them to my little siblings and eventually to my partner! I've drawn and painted a lot for The Hobbit but never The Lord of the Rings, and this ECCC seemed like the right time to debut one!

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I am never gonna get over how Merry is set up in the books to essentially be the revenging spirit of the Men of Westernesse and a bridge between Hobbit & Men's histories from the very get-go of the LOTR trilogy it makes me insane.

The fact that as early as the frickin Barrow-Wights chapter of Fellowship there's hints of what he'll do and become makes my brain snap crackle and pop like nobody's business. What do you MEAN he's the only one who recalls out loud the death of a Westernesse warrior at the hands of the Carn Dǔm (Witch King of Angmar's soldiers) when he was taken/possessed by the Wights?! I mean, they all get those Westernesse daggers from Tom but only Merry recalls a vision before that.

Then of course he's the one with a special interest in Hobbit history in Rohan and Gondor (y'know Gondor where the Men of Westernesse share a heritage with Aragorn!!) like??? AAAAH!

It's like fate ping ponged him into the EXACT position he needed to be in in order to help Eowyn take out The Witch King with a blade crafted by those who hated him most. He was always gonna be the Hobbit for that specific job even way back in the first Book of the Fellowship.