Cold - Merry

[rabidsamfan]

I think I've forgotten what it means to feel warm, forgotten what it is to feel rested, or well-fed, or comfortable. Worse, I've forgotten what it means to feel hope. Not that I had much hope left this morning, when we rode over the crest and saw the armies of the Enemy as thick on the Pelennor fields as mold on old bread. And now my dreams are foul and full of the bitter truth. There is no Elrond here to heal me now. I can hear Pippin crying nearby.

I swore to follow Theoden King, and soon I shall.

Comments

Re: Cold - Merry

[eykar.livejournal.com]

Very believable, although I am puzzled by the implication that Elrond healed Merry before. This brings out some of the ways that the quest challenged and threatened the essential hobbit identity of each of the four that embarked on it, as well as showing Merry's unique reaction to that threat.

Re: Cold - Merry

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Elrond didn't heal Merry -- but it took Elrond to bring Frodo back from a wound dealt out by one of the Nazgul, and given the evil dreams which Eowyn reported when she was healed, I can well see Merry believing that without the intervention of someone as powerful a healer as Elrond he has no chance of recovery. And of course he's right -- it's just that the healer is Aragorn, not Elrond.