Nov 20:  So, Where Were You? (Minas Tirith, Early May, T.A. 3019)

Pippin slurped the foam from the top of his pint.  “People are saying that Faramir proposed to Eowyn at the same time as when the Ring got destroyed.  Is that true?” 

“They were standing together on the wall of the gardens of the Houses of Healing.  I don’t know when he proposed.  You were under a troll at the time,” Merry retorted, his hands wrapped around his own mug.

“So, where were you?”

Merry flushed.  “Er, in the kitchens, hiding from Ioreth, and arguing with the cooks about how many mushroom pies are required to truly satisfy a hobbit’s appetite.”

A/N:  Prompt:  “Where were you when the Eye of Sauron was extinguished” by Betty Bigelow from ALEP2: TABA group on Facebook.  A recent re-read of parts of RETURN OF THE KING reminded me that we were not told just where Merry was or what he was doing when the Ring went into Mount Doom.