Though they could not join their friends Frodo and Sam in Valinor, Merry and Pippin lived whole and peaceful lives after their efforts in The Lord of the Rings.
What happened to Merry and Pippin at the end of LOTR?
Merry inherited the title Master of Buckland at the start of the Fourth Age. He became a historian of the Shire. At the age of 102, Merry returned to Rohan and Gondor with Pippin; they died in Gondor, and were laid to rest among the Kings of Gondor in Rath Dínen, the street of tombs, then moved to lie next to Aragorn.
These two Hobbits who seemed like joke characters at first became so revered and well-respected that they were laid to rest beside the King of Gondor who considered them his friends, which is a huge honor.
Men were never allowed to enter the Undying Lands after the fall of Numenor and any attempts to reach the lands would result in failure or disaster. Aragorn, despite his heroic deeds, likely wouldn't have accepted an invitation to ensure his duties as king.
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Why was Galadriel banned from Valinor?
Being one of the chief leaders of the Noldorin rebellion, Galadriel was not allowed to return and a ban was set upon her, to which she replied that she had no wish to do so.
Although in the latest version of the story, Galadriel's story changed significantly, far from joining Fëanor's rebellion, she opposed him in nearly everything. And that she wished to leave Valinor and go to the vast world of Middle-earth, to give free rein there to her talents.
How does Aragorn realize that Merry and Pippin are alive?
Aragorn did not find Merry and Pippin. He tracked the orcs for days along with Legolas and Gimli but they lost the trail in Fangorn Forest. While they were trying to pick up the trail again they ran into Gandalf the White who told them that the two hobbits were in good hands (by then they were with the ents).
What happens to Merry and Pippin when they drink the water in Fangorn?
As a result of them drinking the draughts, they grew into the largest hobbits in the history of the Shire, adding at least two to three inches to their overall height, surpassing Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took.
After his wife's passing, Sam entrusted the Red Book of Westmarch to Elanor. According to Elanor, Same went to the Grey Havens and sailed to the Undying lands to be reunited with Frodo. As Sam was also a Ring-bearer (although only for a brief time) he was granted passage to sail into the West.
Gimli is not the last of the dwarves. This is a common misconception because Gimli is the only dwarf who gets a fair amount of coverage in the franchise. Lord of the Rings focuses its narrative primarily on the affairs of men, elves, and hobbits. Dwarves are a secluded race that lives in the mountains.
All those Elves who never reached Valinor are "Dark Elves." In the First Age, the Sindar viewed the term "Moriquendi" as offensive, so the Noldorin Exiles gave the name Úmanyar ("Those not of Aman") to those who started the journey but did not finish it.
Though Gimli has no children, he is not the last Dwarf of Middle-earth. After the fall of Sauron, his people continued to thrive in the Lonely Mountain. Gimli made his home in Rohan, in the Glittering Caves of Aglarond, and many of his kinsfolk came with him.
To keep Pippin safe from Sauron's forces, the wizard Gandalf took him to the city of Minas Tirith, separating him from his friends. The effect on Sauron was important, as Sauron wrongly assumed that Pippin was the hobbit with the One Ring, and that he was Saruman's prisoner.
Merry. Merry and Pippin are best friends and first cousins. Though not much is said about their childhoods in the books, it's clear that Merry and Pippin have been best friends their whole lives.
History. Grishnákh's plans for the two captives, Merry and Pippin, were in conflict with Uglúk's orders to deliver them to Saruman unharmed. Grishnákh wanted to take them northward to the east-bank of the Great River where a Nazgûl atop a Fell beast would take them to Barad-dûr.
There's a passage about half way through The Lord of the Rings where an orc called Ugluk forces captured hobbits Merry and Pippin to drink a hot beverage called "orc-draught". Pippin "felt a hot fierce glow flow through him. The pain in his legs and ankles vanished". J R R Tolkien could almost be describing coffee.
Originally Answered: In the movie The Return of the King, when Merry and Pippin reunite with everyone, why don't they seem surprised to see Gandalf alive? In the movie, they see Gandalf the White at Isengard. They know he has returned at that point.
Before the Company of the Ring left Lothlórien, each of its members was presented with a gift by Galadriel. Merry and Pippin were given "small silver belts, each with a clasp wrought like a golden flower".
He receives some Earth from Lothlorien and a mallorn tree seed as well as some Elvish rope. In the movies, he only gets the rope. Merry and Pippin receive the same gift from Galadriel in the books, a silver belt with a gold flower-shaped clasp. While in the movies, they recieve daggers.
Because it would have been a massive plot hole that breaks the logic of the story. The Valar are orders of magnitude more powerful than Sauron, even at full potential just after his fall into the influence of Melkor, or any force Sauron could control.
Put simply, the Elves can't return to Valinor in The Rings of Power because their work in Middle-earth is unfinished. There is far more context to the situation in Tolkien's writing, but The Rings of Power skipped The Silmarillion's complexities regarding Elves and the War of Wrath.
After the destruction of the island of Númenor and the Changing of the World, the Undying Lands were no longer a physical part of Arda, such that Men could no longer sail to Aman or Tol Eressëa. Only the Elves could sail there by the Straight Road, if in ships capable of passing out of the Spheres of the Earth.
