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Muster of Rohan: Merry

I suppose I should be grateful for the darkness; without it I should have been sent back by now, to sit in Edoras and wait for news that couldn't come when not a man can be spared as messenger. But I have fought Orcs before, which is more than some of the Riders can say. Children they are, who speak in gruff whispers lest their voices betray them and make a show of scraping their chins in what passes for morning.

I cannot help but wonder. Would Theoden King have bid me ride beside him if I had a beard?




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[shirebound]

A very mature, thoughtful Merry. He certainly had a lot of time to think and reflect on that long trip where he had to stay quiet and couldn't even talk with most of the people surrounding him. I was especially taken with this:

to sit in Edoras and wait for news that couldn't come when not a man can be spared as messenger