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I don't really understand what you're getting at InklingElf. The way I see it 'character development' isn't important in an Epic, but LoTR is not an Epic, it is more than that. I also don't see at all how you can claim that a character links to a concept, everyone should know that Tolkien wasn't an allegorist.
Pippin to me is like Ireland, always having the mick-taken and treated like a comic character but below the surface wiser than anyone can know.
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The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall, the ring wraiths ride in black, Ride on.
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