LOL!
A lumpy-looking guy with a club steps out into the road to scare off four hobbits...and here's Merry ( fresh from having offed the Lord of the Nazgul), Pippin (who was last seen with his feet poking out from under the body of the troll he'd killed), Sam (who was the only being in living memory to have put a blade into Shelob), and Frodo himself (who had borne the malice of the One Ring for weeks of hopeless journeying).
They would have looked at this subhuman loser with the cudgel as if to say "Yeah...right!"