catefrankie:

mademoisellesarcasme:

why-bless-your-heart:

Tolkien is a good author because he makes sure to tell us that the hobbits’s original ponies were all right after having been scared off by the Black Riders.

@coruscanttojerusalem @catefrankie we just got to this part today in the car

Merry: Frodo, people will be talking about your turning invisible for years and years to come
Aragorn, ominously: I hope so (unless all free peoples are DEAD)
Tolkien: people did talk about it for years to come when gossip was scarce, and also, the ponies, after a pleasant visit with Tom Bombadil, had full lives working at the inn in Bree where they were well-treated and content