madtomedgar:

i love how in “flotsam and jetsam,” when they’re sitting smoking in the ruin of isengard, pippin observant took is completely convinced that saruman is just some dude with a cool looking house. just sitting there smoking weed like “oOOOoooo i’m saruman, i’ve got mAcHiNeS.” pippin’s takeaway from the ents wrecking saruman’s shit is that saruman isn’t even that powerful, just fooled everyone into thinking he was with his cool house and machines, and how cool can those even be if treebeard can stomp on them, hmmMMM?

aragorn is like “pippin he helped create the universe i’m pretty sure he’s actually powerful”

and pippin just insists that no, he’s just some loser dude with a cool house. like he’s not even smart. look around you, strider, do the math.