[Kalimac]

Birdland - Pippin the schlemiel, I like it [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. (Though at that moment, Gandalf would probably have called him something rather harsher - a momzer, say). I have been wondering about the "curious attraction" - though if it was the Ring, it seems odd that it would broadcast long-distance like that; wouldn't Frodo have been the first to feel the compulsion to start throwing stones, even if he resisted it? Pippin the Lighthearted just has this weird affinity for evil; think about the Palantir - and he was about a thousand miles away from the Ring at that point. Maybe it's just the fact that he's the youngest and mentally still rather childish; how many children are tempted to tease a fierce animal (or stick a fork in the toaster, or whatever) just because they know they shouldn't? Maybe it's just that instinct coming out in him - he knows silence is of the essence, so his system starts telling him "Make noise! MAKE NOISE NOW!" just to see if anything will happen. Similar with the Palantir; it's forbidden, so he wants it.