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Did you (when you first read the book) think of Pippin as the foolish and ignorant hobbit as he is in the film?
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Actually, although he did act very young in the movies, I never got the feeling he was
ignorant in either movie or book. He was curious and rather naive concerning certain points of good sense, i.e., he didn't realize that making noise might alert some real nasties or that it was simply bad taste to go about in Imladris shouting "Make way for Frodo, Lord of the Ring!" But in the book, there is much more to Pippin and I get the sense that his foolishness and innocence is part of the larger plan in a most unexpected and serendipitous way. See this thread for some more on that:
Pippin's Sixth Sense
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Pippin did all sorts of comic relief things in the book. Knocking things over, falling down, etc.
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Pippin didn't fall down nearly as much as some others! In fact, Pippin is described as the
most agile of the hobbits, being most up to the task of making it across the rope bridge over the Nimrodel in Lorien. Hey, I wonder (long shot thought here) if the "lighting the beacons" sequence in ROTK was a sort of oblique homage to this trait. Also, personally, one of my favorite Pippin funnies in the book was less on the bumbling scale and more the subtle "good humor" of Pippin's teasing of Frodo at the beginning about how he could use some exercise and how, at Rivendell, Frodo has an uncanny knack for waking up right when the food is being served. I have a feeling that Pippin teased Frodo a lot, but it was always good-natured.
Cheers!
Lyta