[Airerûthiel]

Oh, this is hard! Based on the book characters, I like Merry better because he was his own hobbit and, of course, got to slay the Witch King with Éowyn. His lines at the end of that are so sad but in a lovely way, as I believe has been said. In the films he seemed to get a bit lost underneath the other characters and didn't have many either semi-funny or memorable lines (all that comes to mind is 'there won't be a Shire, Pippin' and 'I think I've broken something'). Most of what he said felt superflulous and a lot of his TTT dialogue was a bit Hollywood.<P>Pippin, on the other hand, had better movie lines but I was always in two minds about the book Pippin. Perhaps it's just because I'm a serious person by nature, but I never really seemed to connect with him the way I did with some of the other characters. He always struck me as slightly too frivolous up until near the end. But for humour he's virtually unchallenged in the whole novel.<P>All I can hope for these two little hobbits is that they get better parts in RotK than they did in TTT. It's no more than they deserve and they're such great characters it would be a crime to rob them of some brilliant lines and scenes.