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petermorwood:a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark:sourwolf-loki-destiel-221b:iridescentoracle:animate-mush:malibujojo:pippin4242:lulasseth:imsorryimovedtoaidanturnerspants:hash-tag-whatever:Merry: confused aweFrodo: confused aweSam: confused awePippin: finally i’m getting the respect i deserve from these peasants so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.I don’t think there will come time when I’m not reblogging this. Sorry guys. no no no you guys don’t understand, Pippin is someone really important in the Shire! The books don’t talk about it a lot, and the movies won’t touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. He’s second in line to becoming military leader of all Hobbits. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but he’s completely aware of it, and educated for it, and that’s why he’s such an over privileged little shit in the books.I thought it was a shame the movies didn’t 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. And they’re 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 “my father farms the land around Tuckborough” he’s deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior. It’s Pippin’s 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 he’s 51 here. Sam’s second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merry’s 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’re ~37 and ~29, respectively.So yeah, Pippin’s 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 Frodo’s coming-of-age at 33, and Pippin’s around twenty years younger than Frodo. This fucked me up. I didn’t read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilbo’s gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.Merry and Frodo are both also relatively important. Bilbo was gentry and well off even before the incident with the dragon (don’t let his ‘It was one small chest, and hardly overflowing’ fool you. He also regularly recieved expensive gifts from Erebor and given that he knew most of their representatives personally, anyone wanting to get involved in the very lucrative trade with Dale wanted to be in good with Bilbo.). Frodo may not have inherited the contacts but he inherited the wealth they brought. Meriadoc Brandybuck was also a scion of the Brandybuck family and in line to become the head of household, basically inheriting the entire eastern border of the shire and control of the Brandywine crossings.Of the four, only Sam isn’t gentry, and the fact that the quest literally hinges on him on multiple occasions is deliberate. It’s no accident that he literally CARRIES the quest towards the end. Sam was Frodo’s batman (military manservant, no cowl or cape) and IIRC he was based on Tolkien’s batman.There’s a tradition of salt-of-the-earth working-class sidekicks in British inter-war fiction, which suggests that Tolkien’s reading material wasn’t exclusively highbrow and learned. Often these sidekicks were as smart as, or more sensibly pragmatic than, their bosses, and - being lower-class - were far more suited to saying things as they saw them, and performing occasional acts of ungentlemanly but necessary violence (Sam Gamgee qualifies on all counts).The list in the Wikipedia article includes Lord Peter Wimsey’s ex-batman (now valet) Bunter; not included are Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond’s ex-batman (now valet) Denny, Simon “The Saint” Templar’s Cockney valet Orace (aitches dropped so often they’re ignored), and Dr Reggie Fortune’s manservant…Whose name, oddly enough, was Sam. -- source link