another lotr thing I think about a lot: Legolas, in Minas Tirith during ROTK, trying to explain to people what he knows about hobbits
He’d probably answer any questions people had that he didn’t know the answer to with just blatant lies
Like “oh yeah and then when you feed them enough they split into two, it’s how they reproduce. But every seventh one is evil.” “Once a month Hobbits eyes glow red and their teeth become sharp.” “Bilbo baggins grows to seven foot tall when mad. You haven’t heard about it because he’s too polite to be mad often.”
Someone asks Merry about the ‘if you feed them enough they split in two’ thing and he’s like ‘haha yeah I ate too much and that’s how Pippin got made’
Pippin says that he was the original.
Who came first, the Merry or the Pippin?
Frodo: you misunderstand, there was no ‘original’. There was a single, large hobbit called Merrippin and one day he ate so much he split in two and Merry and Pippin were brought into the world
Beregond, hyperventilating: please tell me you’re joking
So hobbits are like Australians in the sense that any single one, without being told of the joke ahead of time, will emphatically agree that it is a thing in order to maximise the fun of fooling foreigners?
Did you ever doubt it
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