#Pippin fool of a took

[pippin-fool-of-a-took]

He looked at the parchment for a good few moments before nodding. “Okay.. I’ll do my best.” He said, hesitantly starting the star. He messed up a few times, but he did his best to go back and fix it.

He glanced at her, nervous about how well, or bad he had done. “Did I do okay.?” He asked softly.

@pippin-fool-of-a-took

Molinde smiled, lifting her eyes from her work. A half Ling was indeed a unique sight. "And who might you be, young one?"

[mushroomates]

who i would let borrow my car in lord of the rings:

boromir- would likely take it to a car wash and fill up the tank for me afterwards. no questions asked and the keys are in his hand before he finishes his sentence.

gimli- would change my tires for me. a bit worried about him off roading but he’d take care of it. it’s extremely likely that he also took it through the car wash but not out of politeness but because he got it caked with dirt and mud while driving.

elrond- i’m willing to bet my life on this man being a reliable driver. he could get negative traffic tickets- as in, the cops pull him over just to tell him how good of a three point turn that was. this man is married to the turn signals.

sam- there might be dirt and dog hair left over for weeks but yeah i’d trust him. he probably just needs the trunk space for a dresser he found on the side of the road.

who in lord of the rings i do not trust with my car:

gollum- yeah obviously he’d drive it into the swamp in .2 seconds. this little fucker does not follow road laws or any laws. the second gollum takes my car i know its over.

gandalf- i do not know how one sends an automotive on a quest but im pretty sure my car is in moria rn and i’m never seeing it again

legolas- has the biggest passenger princess energy i’ve ever seen. would total my car immediately after going diagonal across the highway because he saw a cool tree

thranduil- like father like son. passenger princess who has not been behind the wheel for decades. would guilt trip me into giving him a ride before even asking to borrow my car. gets pulled over for having a whole ass wine bottle in the cupholder.

pippin- there would be peanut butter stuck in the console for months and i’d be finding loose snacks and trinkets in my seats years afterwards. also strikes me as the type to be obsessed with the radio to the point of reckless driving

[vigilantegreen]

Obsessed with the fact that in the two towers when they're hunting the orcs that took Merry and Pippin, Legolas is like "the smell of trees...better than any sleep! Let's keep going!" And Gimli is like "please I'm begging, I would like a rest, just five minutes"

[ineffible-chaos]

thorin this, thorin that,

what about how Bilbo probably couldn’t meet pippin and merry’s eyes for the longest time because every time he saw them, all he could see was fili and kili ☹️

how many times did bilbo almost slip up and call the hobbits by names that were not their own but all bilbo could see was that same mischievous twinkle he saw in those two young dwarves eyes?

how many years would it be before the hobbits realized why gandalf was so hard on them? why bilbo had stopped looking at them with such devastation on his face but could not hide the anguish in his eyes?

bilbo never told any of the young hobbits his full journey, always making everything seem more heroic and thrilling than the profound loss everyone suffered in The Company. It probably wasn’t until Frodo left with his uncle that merry and pippin realized why the old hobbit could never truly meet their eyes when sam let them read the book containing both of their journeys ☹️

[malpractisnt]

Imagining pippin and his passion for second breakfast like bro be in the middle of battle and would be like “look i get we’re fighting evil and all but can you blame me for thinking the real tragedy here is that i may never have a second breakfast again?” “like is anyone even thinking about my stomach??” or if he was at the council of elrond and bros just like “scuse me can we just pause for second breakfast? i mean how can we plan the downfall of sauron without a bit of a pick me up?”

[fellowship-say-what]

Boromir: Would you slap Pippin for a million dollars

Gimli: Lmaoo I would slap him for a slice of cheese cake

Merry: I would slap him if I felt like it

Pippin: I feel so unsafe here

[modernincorrectlotrhobbit]

Pippin, desperate for an excuse: Um, because....? Gandalf: Because you lack common sense? Pippin: Yes. NO!

[entishramblings]

Pippin: Do dragons fart fire?

Bilbo: I don't know.

Pippin: I thought you went to college.

[gandalf-the-fool]

[tehcherrya]

LOTR Fool's Gold AU

Okay hear me out on this one, because my natural inclination towards alternate timelines is running full speed with this one and I just needed to share it somewhere.

Ignoring all prospects of Frodo "being the only one to who could have beared the Ring"-- What if Pippin was the Ringbearer? (Hence where the AU gets it's name)

It's akin to a swap AU where instead of Frodo & Sam taking the Ring, it's Pippin, whom, not wanting to go alone, took Merry. Assuming that Sam & Frodo still came-- Frodo wanting adventure, and wanting to accommodate his cousins, and Sam tagging along if not to see the elves and out of the same sort of loyalty for Frodo.

How Pippin would actually receive the Ring is a bit of a work around-- as Bilbo still would have adopted Frodo. So either Bilbo was more generous and sociable in this AU, gifting a number of things to other relatives other than Frodo, OR more fittingly, if Bilbo had lost the Ring by some riverbank, unable to find it again, and long after Bilbo's retirement to Rivendell, Pippin unknowingly finds it, takes a liking to it, though with no strong desire to use it's power, but is only told later by Gandalf that it needs to be destroyed. And much to Gandalf's chagrin-- it has to be Pippin.

Anyway, there's so much narrative potential! Especially when you think about the parallels between this and Sméagol's timeline-- where Sméagol killed his cousin for the Ring at the riverbank, and now a similar duo is working to destroy it together.

It's also narratively relevant for a Took to go on a journey such as this, seeing as Bilbo was also half-Took! I originally debated the possibility of Merry as a Ringbearer, and while that is another interesting thing to think about, I grew attached to this version because of this reason. (That and I feel as if Merry would be a better bodyguard than Pippin would be tbh, he'd try to keep Pippin out of trouble)

It would be heartbreaking to see Pippin's spirit slowly crushed by the end of the story, but that's sort of the point. The Ring could break the spirits of even ones most spirited. I imagine there would be a small arch in the beginning (probably the time of the Fellowship) where Merry has to remind Pippin constantly of the seriousness of his own mission, and that this is no time to be reckless. Scolding him sometimes in an almost big brotherly way. But by the time they are at Mount Doom, Merry's heart breaks. As he would have done anything if not to see Pippin smile again.

Merry and Pippin going on the journey together is a different path, for sure, but is powerful in a different way, considering how close they've been since they were boys.

If you also wanted to go a little deeper into it and discuss the possibilities of Frodo and Sam being the ones to meet Treebeard, and become Knights of Gondor and Esquires of Rohan respectively, be my guest. I personally have the awesome image in my mind of Sam riding in with Eowyn to kill the Witch King to be honest!

But yes, anyways, I will more than likely do more with this, but I just wanted to put this out here because I have been thinking about this A LOT

[autistook]

The fellowship of the ring

[lancedoncrimsonwings]

Pippin felt left out, apparently;

Hey Stranger! Guess what?

Blelelelelellellellleeeelleeleleleleleelelep

Blep bleleelelelel bleeleleelelelelelele

(I don't think Pippin quite understands booping. He's thinking about it now)

[schoolbuswrangler]

Aragorn knew more about second breakfast than the Hobbits.

By definition, breakfast is the breaking of a fast.

If Aragorn was planning not to stop again until nightfall, by that time they would have been fasting again and anything they ate would break that fast.

So Aragorn was the one eating two break-fasts all along.

[auntierayeraye]

[r0sa4077]

Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took - Middle Earth