Pippin&Denethor

[Bill Ferny]

I too think it was pretty spontaneous. I don’t have the book in front of me, but if I remember correctly, even Gandalf was surprised by Pippin’s action.

The thing about hobbits, is that even though they appear to be clumsy and bumbling, mere simpletons, on the surface, they possess a hidden wisdom and foreknowledge deep below their love of six meals a day, pipe weed, the hearth, and a good story or song. I suspect that Pippin had one of those moments of hobbit “Ah Ha!” and acted on it without consideration.