random RotK thought...

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One of the many scenes that really hit me emotionally when I first saw The Return of the The King in the theater was the scene where Merry sees off Pippin in his and Gandalf's ride from Saruman's tower of Orthanc. The scene had it's funny moment---"Why did you look? Why do you always look?" --- but it it had its moving moment as well, when Gandalf places Pippin on Shadowfax, and Merry gives him the last of the pipeweed, and Pippin asks "But we'll see each other soon, right?" And all Merry can do is stare at him, unable to tell him the "yes of course" that Pippin wants so badly to hear... the actors really made that scene for me-- a scene that otherwise was rather fast-moving and short, and a transitional scene in terms of plot. Maybe it was so moving because it was a rushed situation and too fast for either character to be able to part properly. It was everything in terms of characterization, and my heart broke for the two little hobbits, who now are stripped of their last piece of familiarity-- each other. Now both are truly going on alone, surrounded by a world too big for them and possibility of a terrible future they never could have imagined just a year before. My heart broke. I found the scene where Pippin sings as Faramir rides out to be moving as well (it's certainly more artistically edited), and that seems to be the one that most people talk about when they mention Pippin, but it didn't have the impact that this scene did, for me.