| Re: Who was the better character in the films?
Personally I thought that of all the Fellowship , Tolkein would have considered Pippin and Merry's roles to have been the closest to his vision
Gandalf describes them as hobbits who "will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers....to the ninth degree"
Jackson concentrating on their lighter side , only helps to emphasise the sorrow they must endure later in the novel. To show them as anything other than comical characters would , in my opinion , have been a mistake |