#probably hormonal

Our poor overlooked hobbit, he’s so perceptive, brave as hell, and so sweet. He’s also honestly probably the smartest of the hobbits, and he is, unfortunately overlooked quite a bit.

Like everyone who has seen only the movies kind of think of him as mainly Pippin’s sidekick, funny, and a bit brave, but I think the movies did not do his intelligence justice. I just saw a post online that read “rank the four hobbits” and not one person had Merry first, and only a few had him second, and that is just disheartening. Sam was mainly everyone’s number one or only choice.

Sam is a wonderful hobbit, and he stands up so much, pushing himself and protecting Frodo. But we can also see Merry standing up, protecting Pippin when he can, being brave enough to sneak into a battle he was asked to stay out of simply because he wants to help in any way he can, and again, he’s quite literally the smartest of those four hobbits.

I love Sam so much, and he deserves all the love he gets, but I think Merry needs a bit more love out there, because, just like in the movies and books, he is overlooked in the world.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

After we put him to bed, I'm washing dishes and I start thinking... I wish I'd known last night was the last night he'd be in his crib. I'm never going to go in there in the morning and see his giant eyes peeping at me thru the bars of the crib, already awake and smiley. I'm never going to lift him out of there again and have him put his chubby little arms around my neck for a sleepy hug. At night he liked to give us kisses between the bars, and his favorite thing to do was to switch to another bar last minute, and laugh cause he tricked us. I'm so sad.

But I don't have anyone I would rather spend time with.