{"id":276677,"date":"2018-11-26T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/26\/inthroughthesunroof-mikkeneko\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T13:09:27","slug":"inthroughthesunroof-mikkeneko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/26\/inthroughthesunroof-mikkeneko\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-276677 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/26\/inthroughthesunroof-mikkeneko\/attachment\/276678\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/26\/inthroughthesunroof-mikkeneko\/attachment\/276679\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tumblr_m9wva905RN1qbvxy3o2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" 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href=\"http:\/\/mikkeneko.tumblr.com\/post\/170040277664\/wrangletangle-the-books-we-travel\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">mikkeneko<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wrangletangle.tumblr.com\/post\/163059331459\/the-books-we-travel-fuzzykittengladiator\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">wrangletangle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-books-we-travel.tumblr.com\/post\/162577952268\/fuzzykittengladiator-borderlineanders\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">the-books-we-travel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzykittengladiator.tumblr.com\/post\/162490292751\/borderlineanders-mikkeneko-bramblepatch\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">fuzzykittengladiator<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/borderlineanders.tumblr.com\/post\/162486825735\/mikkeneko-bramblepatch\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">borderlineanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikkeneko.tumblr.com\/post\/162358283289\/bramblepatch-sourwolf-loki-destiel-221b\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">mikkeneko<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bramblepatch.tumblr.com\/post\/107546321838\" target=\"_blank\">bramblepatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sourwolf-loki-destiel-221b.tumblr.com\/post\/1\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">sourwolf-loki-destiel-221b<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iridescentoracle.tumblr.com\/post\/105513973543\" target=\"_blank\">iridescentoracle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/animate-mush.tumblr.com\/post\/105364265135\" target=\"_blank\">animate-mush<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/malibujojo.tumblr.com\/post\/1\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">malibujojo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/pippin4242.tumblr.com\/post\/105353786205\" target=\"_blank\">pippin4242<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lulasseth.tumblr.com\/post\/1\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">lulasseth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/imsorryimovedtoaidanturnerspants.tumblr.com\/post\/1\/undefined\" target=\"_blank\">imsorryimovedtoaidanturnerspants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hash-tag-whatever.tumblr.com\/post\/39509385253\" target=\"_blank\">hash-tag-whatever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Merry: confused awe<\/p>\n<p>Frodo:\u00a0confused awe<\/p>\n<p>Sam:\u00a0confused awe<\/p>\n<p>Pippin: finally i\u2019m getting the respect i deserve from these peasants\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t think there will come time when I\u2019m not reblogging this. Sorry guys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>no no no you guys don\u2019t understand, Pippin <em>is<\/em> someone really important in the Shire! The books don\u2019t talk about it a lot, and the movies won\u2019t touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. He\u2019s second in line to becoming military leader of <em>all Hobbits<\/em>. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but he\u2019s completely aware of it, and educated for it, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s such an over privileged little shit in the books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought it was a shame the movies didn\u2019t talk about class differences in the Shire. Also puts M&amp;P stealing food in an uglier light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, at the time of the Party, Pippin would have been 12, which puts it back into a more acceptable light. \u00a0And they\u2019re stealing food <em>from Bilbo<\/em>, a wealthy and eccentric family member, which again makes things a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>But yes, when they call Pippin\u00a0<em>Ernil i Perrianath &#8211;<\/em> Prince of the Halflings &#8211; they are actually completely spot on.<\/p>\n<p>And when Pippin tells Bergil \u201cmy father farms the land around Tuckborough\u201d he\u2019s deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior. \u00a0It\u2019s Pippin\u2019s most adult moment in the series. \u00a0Bergil is engaging in a status contest which Pippin can\u00a0<em>totally win &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>but instead chooses not to compete. \u00a0Pippin is a gilded and spoiled lordling in the Shire, but he becomes a Man of Gondor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>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 he\u2019s 51 here. Sam\u2019s second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merry\u2019s 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 they\u2019re ~37 and ~29, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, Pippin\u2019s the youngest by a\u00a0<em>lot<\/em>. Plus, taking hobbit aging into account, he really is still in the equivalent of his teens; remember the Party was half to celebrate Frodo\u2019s coming-of-age at\u00a0<em>33<\/em>, and Pippin\u2019s around twenty years\u00a0<em>younger than Frodo<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This fucked me up. I didn\u2019t read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilbo\u2019s gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also worth noting that \u201cMerry and Pippin stealing food\u201d isn\u2019t in the book &#8211; raiding Farmer Maggot\u2019s fields, specifically the mushrooms, is something\u00a0<em>Frodo<\/em> used to do when he was a kid, before his parents died and he moved to Hobbiton to live with Bilbo. Frodo\u2019s still afraid of Maggot\u2019s guard dogs, but the farmer himself is sympathetic and helpful when he finds Frodo &amp; Co. cutting through his field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is specifically invoked in the books at the Council of Elrond, where Elrond argues against Pippin <i>in particular <\/i>going, <i>because<\/i>\u00a0 he is so young. He\u2019s okay with Merry going but wants to keep Pippin in Rivendell. Elrond has serious misgivings against sending an early-teenager off to face the Shadow, and given what happens to Pippin in The Two Towers, he was not wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mtYhlykCLBYiNBo24COECbw\" target=\"_blank\">@cyrefinns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mLpoR_eW96R4nD8_A2xqZ4g\" target=\"_blank\">@cyrefinns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just so great. I just\u2013I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merry is also a prince of sorts &#8211; his father is Master of Buckland, which is the semi-autonomous boundary community between the Brandywine river and the Old Forest (never, alas, discussed in the movies). Merry and Pippin are friends in the books in part because they\u2019re of relatively equal status and in part because they\u2019re cousins (like all nobs, Shire nobs mostly marry each other). <\/p>\n<p>However, the books also clearly make Merry the Responsible One, even though he\u2019s only been a full adult for four years. (Think early 20s in human terms.) Merry buys and prepares the house at Crickhollow. Merry figures out the secret of the ring before Bilbo even gives it to Frodo, but Merry keeps Bilbo\u2019s secret. Merry convinces Sam to spy on Frodo. Merry explains that they\u2019re all joining Frodo on the Quest, whether Frodo wants them to or not. Merry cautions about the Old Forest and doesn\u2019t go down to drink in the taproom at the Prancing Pony. <\/p>\n<p>So in the books, Merry isn\u2019t Pippin\u2019s partner in pranks &#8211; instead, Merry and Pippin spend all their time together on the Quest because Merry\u2019s looking after his younger cousin. Can you imagine what his mother would say if he <i>came home without Pippin<\/i>? Merry can, and that\u2019s why he takes some pretty absurd personal risks during the books to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen. Like, he literally rides into battle on the back of someone else\u2019s horse, in disguise, because Pippin is probably somewhere in that battle.<\/p>\n<p>Merry is 99%* common sense unless Pippin is involved, and then he is 100% save\/rescue\/protect\/support Pippin. The character growth and maturation we see in Merry in the movies isn\u2019t in the books; instead he has almost the exact opposite arc of becoming an extreme risk-taker, driven by his protective instincts.<\/p>\n<p>(*The other 1% stabbed a ringwraith in the calf that one time, but we can argue that this was due to a natural expansion of Merry\u2019s protective instincts toward Eowyn, with whom he\u2019d bonded quite a lot recently, and toward Theoden, who he deeply respected as being kind of like his dad.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>bonus kleenex moment:<\/p>\n<p>when pippin finds merry stumbling half-blind and sick through the streets of Minas Tirith after killing the Ringwraith, he tells Merry \u201cPoor old fellow! I\u2019ll look after you,\u201d half-carries him to the healing halls, and is worried sick about him until he can finally get Aragorn in to give him medicine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time in the story that <i>Pippin<\/i>\u00a0 has looked after <i>Merry,<\/i> instead of the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>It shows that Pippin has grown up, that he can protect the people who always protected him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is also why it\u2019s awesome when they finally come back to the Shire, and Saruman\u2019s made a right mess of things, and it\u2019s Merry and Pippin that kick ass and take names. They\u2019re the closest things the Shire has to princes and military leaders, and they\u2019ve just had adventures that make this look like a minor action. Frodo\u2019s tired, and Sam\u2019s just worried about Frodo, and Merry and Pippin are like hold my pint, I got this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inthroughthesunroof: mikkeneko: wrangletangle: the-books-we-travel: fuzzykittengladiator: borderlineanders: mikkeneko: bramblepatch: sourwolf-loki-destiel-221b: iridescentoracle: animate-mush: malibujojo: pippin4242: lulasseth: imsorryimovedtoaidanturnerspants: hash-tag-whatever: Merry: confused awe Frodo:\u00a0confused awe Sam:\u00a0confused awe Pippin: finally i\u2019m getting the respect i deserve from these peasants\u00a0 so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. 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