From The Fellowship of the Ring

• "You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin -- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours -- closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, or go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."
• "We have come a long way with you and been through some stiff times. We want to go on."
• "I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it."
• "That won't do at all! We can't leave Frodo! Pippin and I always intended to go wherever he went, and we still do."
• From the movie:
  • "I think I've broken something!"
  • "This, my friend, is a pint."
  • "How do we know this Strider's a friend?"
  • "Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip."
  • "You'd have to tie us up in a sack to stop us!"
  • "He's leaving."

From The Two Towers

• "I'll tackle Strider by the campfire: he's less testy."
• "Welcome, my lords, to Isengard! We are the doorwardens. Meriadoc, son of Saradoc is my name, and my companion, who, alas! is overcome with weariness, is Peregrin, son of Paladin of the house of Took."
• "We shall have to share pipes, as good friends must at a pinch."
• From the movie:
  • "I think we might've made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin."
  • "It's the trees. You remember in the old forest, folks used to say there was something in the water that made the trees grow tall and come alive. They could talk to each other... even move."
  • "Treeherder! A shepherd of the forest."
  • "How can that be your decision?"
  • "But you're part of this world! Aren't you?"
  • "The fires of Isengard will spread, and the bridges of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once great and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin."

From The Return of the King

• Filled suddenly with love for this old man, he knelt on one knee and took his hand and kissed it. "May I lay the sword of Meriadoc of the Shire on your lap, Theoden King?" he cried. "Receive my service, if you will!"
• "As a father you shall be to me."
• "I will be ready," said Merry, "even if you bid me ride with you on the Paths of the Dead."
• "I do not want to be parted from you like this, Theoden King. And as all my friends have gone to the battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind... tie me on the back of [a horse], or let me hang on a stirrup, or something. It is a long way to run; but run I shall, if I cannot ride, even if I wear my feet off and arrive weeks too late."
• "Why, lord, did you receive me as sword-thain, if not to stay by your side?"
• "You shall go with me," said the Rider. "I will bear you before me... such good will should not be denied."
• Merry wished he was a tall Rider like Eomer and could blow a horn or something and go galloping to his rescue.
• Suddenly the slow-kindled courage of his race awoke. He clenched his hand. She should not die, so fair, so desperate! At least she should not die alone, unaided.
• But suddenly [the Black Rider] stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain... Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind.
• Merry could not speak but wept anew. "Forgive me, lord," he said at last, "if I broke your command, and yet have done no more in your service than to weep at our parting."
• Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given to him.
• "Do not be afraid," said Aragorn. "I came in time, and I have called him back. He is weary now, and grieved, and he has taken a hurt like the Lady Eowyn, daring to smite that deadly thing. But these evils can be amended, so strong and gay a spirit is in him. His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom."
• "I am hungry. What is the time?"
• "I would like supper first, and after that a pipe."
• "Ever since that night at Bree we have been a nuisance to you. But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean."

From the Timeline

• 1432 -- Meriadoc, called the Magnificent, becomes Master of Buckland. Great gifts are sent to him by King Eomer and the Lady Eowyn of Ithilien.
• 1484 -- Master Meriadoc came to Edoras and was with King Eomer before he died in that autumn. Then he and Thain Peregrin went to Gondor and passed what short years were left to them in that realm, until they died and were laid in Rath Dinen among the great of Gondor.
• 1541 -- the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king.