Denethor has released Pippin from his service, and given him leave to go where
he will. Pippin told him that he did not wish to be released, but I do feel
that at this point Pippin is no longer under any compulsion to follow
Denethor's orders. Tolkien gets him out of a nice ethical quandary this way :-)
The servants that obeyed Denethor's orders even to the point of helping him to
kill his son and himself are a stark example of the evils that can arise from
unquestioning obedience. Perhaps they thought that Faramir was already dead; at
the very least they probably thought he was near death and beyond
cure.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
