New Year

[rabidsamfan]

In Gondor they celebrate the New Year in the spring, to commemorate the day that Frodo reached the Crack of Doom, and Gollum took the Ring into the fire. Aragorn thinks that we should do the same, but Sam says there's more about the day that he wants to forget than he wants to remember, and I just nod. Merry wishes we'd celebrate, I know, but it's different for him. He wasn't there like me and Sam were -- not that day anyway. I asked him if he wanted to celebrate the victory of Pelennor Fields and that shut him up.

Comments

Re: Pippin's main memory

[eykar.livejournal.com]

I think he was experiencing the wave of change that swept through the world due to the Ring's being destroyed. If not for that, he might indeed have been only beyond despair.

Re: Pippin's main memory

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I doubt it actually. The Eagles arrive just before the Nazgul are recalled -- i.e., just when Frodo claims the Ring -- and Pippin is already going into unconsciousness. It's at least a couple of minutes before Gollum gets the Ring and falls, for if nothing else Gandalf has a chance to tell the armies to stand for the hour of doom. (And Pippin never hears that being said.)

No, I think the "almost" is in that sentence for a very good reason, and Pippin has no memory of the rush of relief that Faramir and Eowyn (and presumably Merry) feel when the Ring is destroyed and Sauron too.