understands all the nuances of first and last names: frodo, sam, merry, pippin, gandalf
knows about last names but isn’t entirely sure how to use them: aragorn, boromir
doesn’t understand last names and at this point is afraid to ask: legolas, gimli
boromir calls pippin ‘peregrine of the house of took’ one time and he can’t stop laughing all day
gimli thinks baggins is a battle epithet and politely asks frodo when and how he earned it. “i got it from my father? when i was born?” gimli doesn’t know whether to be impressed or concerned
aragorn just thinks they’re basically epessi. one can never have too many epessi. he calls merry ‘brandybuck meriadoc’ which prompts legolas to do some internal math as he tries to figure out which one is brandybuck
(via @avenger-shaped-plotholes) YES EXACTLY
VERY into Pippin calling Boromir ‘Mister Gondor’ one day in an effort to be polite and Boromir being dazed for full minutes at being addressed like a popular gondorian children’s book protagonist