I was amused by Pippin's slurring of the word "sitting" in the line:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>We are sitting here, enjoying some well earned comforts<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>but I love both his song and his worry as he looks over the balcony in his and Gandalf's quarters:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I don't want to be in a battle; but it's worse being on the edge of one I can't escape.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> (I probably messed up the quotes, but I think y'all know what I'm talking about! <P>Somehow, the line<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I won't do it again!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> didn't sit right with me. It sounded like something a child would say when caught at something he did wrong. (His reaction to being separated from Merry, however, is telling enough on Pippin that he has learned something...) I would rather Pippin have said, <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>If the seven stones were laid out in front of me now, I should close my eyes and put my hands in my pockets!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>But we can't have everything!<P>Cheers,<BR>Lyta
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“…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”
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