Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan) and Peregrin "Pippin" Took (Billy Boyd) might seem like simply entertaining comic relief characters in the Lord of the Rings movies. Yet they are crucial to the story. The story of Lord of the Rings would be different without these two Hobbits. It might not seem like it at first, but if Lord of the Rings fans think about Merry and Pippin's respective roles in the story, they'll see that Middle Earth would not have been saved without their input.