honest to goodness thought whilst reading 'rotk'

good thing it was merry who ended up with the riders of rohan. he was the one interested in languages, so he noticed the similarities between the speech of the shire and the speech of rohan and was able to write that book about how the two languages were related. pippin's heart wouldn't have swelled the way merry's did when he heard their words, and that all would have been lost.

um...yeah. kind of forgot it was fiction.