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Merry: confused awe
Frodo:ย confused awe
Sam:ย confused awe
Pippin: finally iโm getting the respect i deserve from these peasantsย
so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.
I donโt think there will come time when Iโm not reblogging this. Sorry guys.ย
no no no you guys donโt understand, Pippin is someone really important in the Shire! The books donโt talk about it a lot, and the movies wonโt touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. Heโs second in line to becoming military leader of all Hobbits. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but heโs completely aware of it, and educated for it, and thatโs why heโs such an over privileged little shit in the books.
I thought it was a shame the movies didnโt 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. ย And theyโre stealing food from Bilbo, a wealthy and eccentric family member, which again makes things a bit different.
But yes, when they call Pippinย Ernil i Perrianath - Prince of the Halflings - they are actually completely spot on.
And when Pippin tells Bergil โmy father farms the land around Tuckboroughโ heโs deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior. ย Itโs Pippinโs most adult moment in the series. ย Bergil is engaging in a status contest which Pippin canย totally win -ย but instead chooses not to compete. ย 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 heโs 51 here. Samโs second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merryโs 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 theyโre ~37 and ~29, respectively.
So yeah, Pippinโs the youngest by aย lot. Plus, taking hobbit aging into account, he really is still in the equivalent of his teens; remember the Party was half to celebrate Frodoโs coming-of-age atย 33, and Pippinโs around twenty yearsย younger than Frodo.ย
This fucked me up. I didnโt read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilboโs gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.
iโm not sure if itโs ever been explicitly stated but the movie and book follow different timelines
in the books, bilbo leaves the shire 60 years after his first adventure, giving frodo the ring. seventeen years pass before frodo sets out on his quest
in the movies, seventeen years cannot have passed while gandalf goes all nancy drew in denethorโs basement - for one, pippin is obviously not 10 in the party scene - but the story does allow us some wiggle room - maybe a few months, even a year or two? (I DUNNO DID JACKSON EVER SPECIFY GIMMIE NUMBERS)
this also accouts for a lot of the confusion re. aragorns age following thranduils advice to legolas at the end of BOFA - in the books, aragorn is about ten during the events of the hobbit, but in the contracted movie timeline, he tells eowyn heโs eighty seven, putting him somewhere around 27+ when legolas goes off to find him
also i think i heard some messing around was done with thorins age? i dunno BASICALLY THE MOVIE TIMELINE IS CONTRACTED AND FUDGED AROUND WITH AS MUCH AS THE MOVIE MAPS dont even get me started on those
BUT BACK TO PIPPIN
so pippin does indeed become the thain, merry also become the head ofย his ginormous family - the master of buckland, in fact
but you know whats best of all
SAM BECOMES MAYOR OF THE SHIRE
SAMWISE GAMGEE BECOMES ELECTED MAYOR OF THE SHIRE SEVEN TIMES
k so to understand the importance of this you gotta remember that sam is poor
he comes from a poor family - so poor, in fact, that iโm fairly certain that sam was the only one of them who couldย read -ย and only because bilbo taught him. in the very first scene of FOTR, the Gaffer (samโs dad) says
โBut my lad Sam will know more about [Bilboโs treasure]. Heโs in and out of Bag End. Crazyย about stories of the old days he is, and he listens to all Mr.Bilboโs tales. Mr. Bilbo has learnedย him his letters - meaning no harm, mark you,and I hope no harm will come of it.
โElves and Dragonsโ I says to him. โCabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.ย Donโt go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or youโll land in trouble too big forย you,โI says to him. And I might say it to others,โ he added with a look at the stranger and theย miller.โ
firstly im super fascinated by class divides in the shire - and there is a huge gap between the workers and the landed gentry- but not the bitter feud between proletariat and bourgeoisie of the industrial england that tolkien so despised. the poor of the shire are the poor of an idealised rustic england. there are no slums in the shire, and i imagine that the homeless vagrants (if they exist) are more akin to Wordsworthโs Old Cumberland Beggarย IM SO SORRY TO BRING WORDSWORTH INTO THIS, I REALLY AM but yeah does anyone wanna talk pre industrial revolution englands social structures and how they relates to the shire cause im pretty sure thats what tolkiens aiming for here
SORRY im off topic im talking about how hella rad it is that sam becomes mayor of the shire and pippin becomes the thain and merry becomes master of buckland and between the three of them they lead the shire into a golden age of prosperity and happiness and good external relations with gondor and arnor and rohan
ALSO SAMS DAUGHTER AND PIPPINS SON GET MARRIED HA HA IM GONNA GO HIDE FOR A WHILE ITS TOO CUTE
Basically the Shire operates Perfectly (with a few notable exceptions, like Ted Sandyman and the Sackville-Bagginses),ย unless it is being meddled with. So while Gandalf sets up the Rangers to protect the borders (not meddling), Saruman introduces trade the Shire canโt support, imports Men and industry, andย unseats those in chargeย (Will Whitfoot, the Mayor, is the only Hobbit who has been in the Lockholes longer than Lobelia, and during the Scouring, the first military thing Pippin does is go to Tuckborough with some Hobbiton lads and break the siege on the Great Smial so that the Tooks can help roust Sharky.
So, Hobbitsย have rank, but they donโt care much about it. What you do is way more important, and social mobility isnโt unheard of. The only person who ever talks down to Sam is his own father. Pippin and Merryย recruit him on purpose,ย and Rosie (whose father is a landowner, which the Gaffer is not), is not even a BIT reluctant to marry himย before he does anything heroic, just because heโs a great person.
HOBBITS, I TELL YOU. HOBBITS.
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<p>Merry: confused awe</p>
<p>Frodo:ย confused awe</p>
<p>Sam:ย confused awe</p>
<p>Pippin: finally iโm getting the respect i deserve from these peasantsย </p>
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<p>so accurate i am choking on my carrot. this is making me giggle harder than it should. I love Pippin so much.</p>
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<p>I donโt think there will come time when Iโm not reblogging this. Sorry guys.ย </p>
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<p>no no no you guys donโt understand, Pippin <i>is</i> someone really important in the Shire! The books donโt talk about it a lot, and the movies wonโt touch that stuff with a bargepole, but Pippin will be inheriting land rights to about a quarter of the Shire. Heโs second in line to becoming military leader of <i>all Hobbits</i>. His dad is currently in charge of that stuff, but heโs completely aware of it, and educated for it, and thatโs why heโs such an over privileged little shit in the books.</p>
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<p>I thought it was a shame the movies didnโt talk about class differences in the Shire. Also puts M&P stealing food in an uglier light.</p>
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<p>To be fair, at the time of the Party, Pippin would have been 12, which puts it back into a more acceptable light. ย And theyโre stealing food <i>from Bilbo</i>, a wealthy and eccentric family member, which again makes things a bit different.</p>
<p>But yes, when they call Pippinย <i>Ernil i Perrianath -</i> Prince of the Halflings - they are actually completely spot on.</p>
<p>And when Pippin tells Bergil โmy father farms the land around Tuckboroughโ heโs deliberately downplaying his class so that he can greet the boy as an equal rather than a superior. ย Itโs Pippinโs most adult moment in the series. ย Bergil is engaging in a status contest which Pippin canย <i>totally win -ย </i>but instead chooses not to compete. ย Pippin is a gilded and spoiled lordling in the Shire, but he becomes a Man of Gondor.</p>
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<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 heโs 51 here. Samโs second-oldest; born in 2980, he was 21 when Bilbo left and is 39 at this point. Merryโs 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 theyโre ~37 and ~29, respectively.</p>
<p>So yeah, Pippinโs the youngest by aย <i>lot</i>. Plus, taking hobbit aging into account, he really is still in the equivalent of his teens; remember the Party was half to celebrate Frodoโs coming-of-age atย <i>33</i>, and Pippinโs around twenty yearsย <i>younger than Frodo</i>.ย </p>
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<p>This fucked me up. I didnโt read the books and in the movie it was shown like Frodo took off with the ring like 2 days after Bilboโs gone away, but it was 17 years after that. OMFG.</p>
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<p>iโm not sure if itโs ever been explicitly stated but the movie and book follow different timelines</p>
<p>in the books, bilbo leaves the shire 60 years after his first adventure, giving frodo the ring. seventeen years pass before frodo sets out on his quest</p>
<p>in the movies, seventeen years cannot have passed while gandalf goes all nancy drew in denethorโs basement - for one, pippin is obviously not 10 in the party scene - but the story does allow us some wiggle room - maybe a few months, even a year or two? (I DUNNO DID JACKSON EVER SPECIFY GIMMIE NUMBERS)</p>
<p>this also accouts for a lot of the confusion re. aragorns age following thranduils advice to legolas at the end of BOFA - in the books, aragorn is about ten during the events of the hobbit, but in the contracted movie timeline, he tells eowyn heโs eighty seven, putting him somewhere around 27+ when legolas goes off to find him</p>
<p>also i think i heard some messing around was done with thorins age? i dunno BASICALLY THE MOVIE TIMELINE IS CONTRACTED AND FUDGED AROUND WITH AS MUCH AS THE MOVIE MAPS dont even get me started on those</p>
<p>BUT BACK TO PIPPIN</p>
<p>so pippin does indeed become the thain, merry also become the head ofย <i>his</i> ginormous family - the master of buckland, in fact</p>
<p>but you know whats best of all</p>
<p><i>SAM BECOMES MAYOR OF THE SHIRE</i></p>
<p><i>SAMWISE GAMGEE BECOMES ELECTED MAYOR OF THE SHIRE SEVEN TIMES</i></p>
<p>k so to understand the importance of this you gotta remember that sam is poor</p>
<p>he comes from a poor family - so poor, in fact, that iโm fairly certain that sam was the only one of them who couldย <i>read -ย </i>and only because bilbo taught him. in the very first scene of FOTR, the Gaffer (samโs dad) says</p>
<p><i>โBut my lad Sam will know more about [Bilboโs treasure]. Heโs in and out of Bag End. Crazyย about stories of the old days he is, and he listens to all Mr.Bilboโs tales. Mr. Bilbo has learnedย him his letters - meaning no harm, mark you,and I hope no harm will come of it.</i></p>
<p><i>โElves and Dragonsโ I says to him. โCabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.ย Donโt go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or youโll land in trouble too big forย you,โI says to him. And I might say it to others,โ he added with a look at the stranger and theย miller.โ</i></p>
<p>firstly im super fascinated by class divides in the shire - and there is a huge gap between the workers and the landed gentry- but not the bitter feud between proletariat and bourgeoisie of the industrial england that tolkien so despised. the poor of the shire are the poor of an idealised rustic england. there are no slums in the shire, and i imagine that the homeless vagrants (if they exist) are more akin to Wordsworthโs <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww139.html">Old Cumberland Beggar</a>ย IM SO SORRY TO BRING WORDSWORTH INTO THIS, I REALLY AM but yeah does anyone wanna talk pre industrial revolution englands social structures and how they relates to the shire cause im pretty sure thats what tolkiens aiming for here</p>
<p>SORRY im off topic im talking about how hella rad it is that sam becomes mayor of the shire and pippin becomes the thain and merry becomes master of buckland and between the three of them they lead the shire into a golden age of prosperity and happiness and good external relations with gondor and arnor and rohan</p>
<p>ALSO SAMS DAUGHTER AND PIPPINS SON GET MARRIED HA HA IM GONNA GO HIDE FOR A WHILE ITS TOO CUTE</p>
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<p>Basically the Shire operates Perfectly (with a few notable exceptions, like Ted Sandyman and the Sackville-Bagginses),ย <i>unless it is being meddled with</i>. So while Gandalf sets up the Rangers to protect the borders (not meddling), Saruman introduces trade the Shire canโt support, imports Men and industry, andย <i>unseats those in chargeย </i>(Will Whitfoot, the Mayor, is the only Hobbit who has been in the Lockholes longer than Lobelia, and during the Scouring, the first military thing Pippin does is go to Tuckborough with some Hobbiton lads and break the siege on the Great Smial so that the Tooks can help roust Sharky.</p>
<p>So, Hobbitsย <i>have</i> rank, but they donโt care much about it. What you do is way more important, and social mobility isnโt unheard of. The only person who ever talks down to Sam is his own father. Pippin and Merryย <i>recruit him on purpose,ย </i>and Rosie (whose father is a landowner, which the Gaffer is not), is not even a BIT reluctant to marry himย <i>before he does anything heroic</i>, just because heโs a great person.</p>
<p>HOBBITS, I TELL YOU. HOBBITS.</p>
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