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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5821636" data-attributes="member: 1879">And if your friend the basket weaver insisted on coming along and paying his own way, would you use force to stop him? Why? Does some mystical sense tell you that there can be only 5 main characters and if you gank your best friend since childhood a psychopathic drow axe murderer will mysteriously volunteer to help you on your quest?By the end of the LotR books Merry and Pippin were legitimate little badasses. At the time of the council of Rivendell they got sent along because the elves couldn't be bothered with taking the hairy freeloaders back to the Shire. By your logic Gandalf should have blasted them on the spot, as this would somehow cause Glorfindel and Elrohir to man up and come along.</blockquote>