Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as Merry, and in later life known as Meriadoc the Magnificent, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings. Merry, a Hobbit, was born in year T.A. 2982, and was the only child of Saradoc Brandybuck (T.A. 2940 – F.A. 11), Master of Buckland, and Esmeralda Took (T.A. 2936–?), the younger sister of Paladin Took,...
Pippen and Merry bump into Frodo and Sam, literally while the latter where st...
Pippin asks Merry if they should share the tobacco they've found with Treebe...
Treebeard, Merry and Pippin chat on their way to Treebeard's home.
The Hobbits are watching Saruman look out at the ruin of Isengard from his to...
Aragorn leads the Hobbits into the Wild. When they stop, he chides them. When...
Still short of understanding the position he's placed himself in by looking i...
Merry walks up to Pippen, who's mounted on his horse. Looking up to him, he h...
Merry and Pippen, also listening in on the council, come from there places to...
While Frodo and Sam follow Gollum to Morodor, and Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and...
Happy to see Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli ride up Merry bids them wel...
Merry and Pippin dance and sing on the tables during the victory celebration ...
Farmer Maggot can be heard coming through the corn field. Merry and Pippen sp...
Merry sees what Pippin fails to see, the future under the Dark Lord.
While lecturing Frodo the proper direction to take in the mines comes to Gand...
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