Very nice! Here's hoping some analogue of Merry makes it way into the story as well then (for some reason I can picture a Brandybuck Brewery and a Sam Adams-like hobbit.."always a good choice" it just seems to fit, must be the whole Brandywine, brnady period, etc...)

The "buddy-cop" interplay of the two younger hobbits, and Gimli and Legolas has a nice fit to it as well...