"Merry, Look!" Pippin shoved a piece of paper in Merry's face. Merry grunted and pulled it back so he could see it properly. "What is it?" he asked, beginning to read it. "It's a chain letter! If I don't send copies to everyone I know, bad things will happen!" said Pippin, in a voice that sounded, to Merry, impossibly small. Surely, Pippin didn't believe in that rubbish? "Pippin, just throw it out. Nothing will happen, chain letters are just junk," Merry said as he finished reading it. "I can't! Didn't you read it? I'll be cursed forever! I don't want to be cursed, Merry.Merry! Give it back!" Pippin yelled as Merry held it high above his head. And out of Pippin's reach. "Pip.nothing bad will happen! Chain letters are a big joke, everyone knows it." Pippin was jumping up and down, trying to grab the letter from Merry's clutches.