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Originally Posted by Tuor in Gondolin

And one of the most incomprehensible decisions of the movie has its seeds here, showing Pippin and Merry growing, and then later (especially at the Grey Havens, showing them shrunk down again. If you go to the effort and time of having them grow why then ignore this later. PJ could even have had a better Gimli humor moment by using his book comments and measuring of the hobbits at Isengard.

My take on the hobbits' growth via the Ent draught was to make these two heroes more than just 'two hobbits that accompanied the Ringbearer.' Merry and Pip see more fighting in the Third Age than the other two, and Tolkien may have created the Ent draught as a device to help readers believe that these hobbits might actually be useful in battle with orcs and larger foes. Sure, they're little, but after their visit with Treebeard, suddenly we have the Hercules and Theseus of the Hobbit world.

And during the Scouring of the Shire, it's these two that open the gate (can't remember which one) as now they are overly large for Little Folk. Sam gets a family, Frodo gets a cruise, Merry and Pippin get larger.

PJ just threw this in for a laugh; an illogical lark to have another character (small one at that) belch.