Rána Eressëa
01-15-2002, 08:48 PM
I saw many times on different websites a quote from LOTR that says, "Handsome is as handsome does." --Samwise Gamgee. I just looked over Chapter 10 in FOTR: Strider, and found this little excerpt:
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"They are -- at first sight at any rate," laughed Pippin with sudden relief after reading Gandalf's letter. "But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches."
"It would take more than a few days, or weeks, or years, of wandering in the Wild to make you look like Strider," he (Strider) answered. "And you would die first, unless you are made of sterner stuff than you look to be."
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So, apparently, even if Sam did say these words, they were mentioned by Pippin first! :p
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"They are -- at first sight at any rate," laughed Pippin with sudden relief after reading Gandalf's letter. "But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches."
"It would take more than a few days, or weeks, or years, of wandering in the Wild to make you look like Strider," he (Strider) answered. "And you would die first, unless you are made of sterner stuff than you look to be."
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So, apparently, even if Sam did say these words, they were mentioned by Pippin first! :p