"King’s
man! King’s man! You must stay by him. As a father you shall be to me, you
said."
"I
am afraid I am only in everybody’s way, but I should like to do anything I
could, you know."
"They
do not like all that about ending and failing. I should not sing any
more at present. Wait till we do get to the edge, and then we’ll turn and
give them a rousing chorus!"
"It
is good! My dear Gimli, it is Longbottom Leaf!"
"May
I lay the sword of Meriadoc of the Shire on your lap Théoden King?’ Receive
my service, if you will!"
"When
it grew foggy I came across and rode up towards Stock to see if you had fallen
in any ditches. But I’m blest if I know which way you have come. Where did
you find them, Mr. Maggot? In your duck-pond?"
Son
of Saradoc Brandybuck, called "The Magnificent," Merry accompanied
Frodo on the Quest of Mount Doom.
Captured with his friend Peregrin Took by the Orcs, they were separated from the
rest of the Company of the Ring at Parth Galen, but eventually escaped to become
the first mortals for many centuries to encounter the Treebeard and the Ents of Fangorn Forest.
There coming to Fangorn was, as Gandalf reported, "like
the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche in the mountains."
Indeed, as they began to share more and more about their adventures and their
encounters with the treacherous Saruman's orcs, the more heated Treebeard
became, and consequently, he would go on to plan the Ents' revenge against
Saruman and Isengard.
Merry was present at the destruction of Isengard, and rode to the Battle of the
Pelennor with the Rohirrim. There, his deeds won great renown, for with
Eowyn of Rohan he defeated and slew the Lord of the Nazgul, though his arm was
maimed and he thought he would die instantly, but was met by Merry on the
streets of Minas Tirith and eventually brought back to full health by Aragorn's
healing hands.
