The Road Goes Ever On

Merry has no words for this moment as they stop and look back on the Shire, on all they are leaving behind.

"I suppose this is just what happens to Hobbits who meddle in things that are too big for them," Pippin smiles.

In Pippin’s eyes Merry catches a glimpse of the tween who stood here once before, wondering if he would ever return. But now the road leads them onwards and they will be together at least, in whatever distant land they find their rest. He smiles too, and thinks of Frodo and Sam in another far green country.