Gandalf woke Pippin in the morning but no sun shone. Merely a dim brown-grey twilight. The hobbit was summoned to Denethor's side. He stood long in silence as the Steward and Gandalf spoke. Finally Denethor turned his attention to Pippin. It seemed to the hobbit that much of what he did and thought were somehow known to Denethor. The Steward asked Pippin if he could sing and the hobbit reluctantly answered that he could. "'But we have no songs fit for great halls and evil times, lord'" (p. 80, The Return of the King). Denethor wondered why such songs would not be fit for him. After brief questions he was sent to the livery to be dressed as Denethor's esquire. Being dressed in the garb of the Citadel Pippin waited on Denethor throughout the grey dim day.
Middle-earth timeline: Third Age, 3019, March 10th
Today's reading comes from: The Return of the King, pages 79-80
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