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Fool-of-a-Took · 10-15-2002, 12:25 PM

When I last read TTT a couple of months ago I noticed a bit of a spoiler in the chapter 'The Uruk Hai'. It describes the part where Merry drinks the Orc draught and it washes the pain away from the gash in his forehead; "it gave him no more trouble, but he bore a brown scar to the end of his days".
This, to me anyway, suggests that he is going to live for a few more years and doesn't die at the hands of the orcs which on a first reading spoils the suspense a little bit.
Any more pettiness out there? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

10-15-2002, 12:25 PM	#1
Fool-of-a-Took Pile O'Bones Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Newcastle England Posts: 14	Spoiler in his own book! When I last read TTT a couple of months ago I noticed a bit of a spoiler in the chapter 'The Uruk Hai'. It describes the part where Merry drinks the Orc draught and it washes the pain away from the gash in his forehead; "it gave him no more trouble, but he bore a brown scar to the end of his days". This, to me anyway, suggests that he is going to live for a few more years and doesn't die at the hands of the orcs which on a first reading spoils the suspense a little bit. Any more pettiness out there? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ ...and his eye, piercing all shadows, looked across the plain to the door that he had made;and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash.