Except I quibble a bit with the author's memory of how Book Pippin lost his brooch. He did not succeed in escaping, only to turn around and become recaptured to save Merry. He broke ranks and ran purposefully to create a sign of hobbit prints amid the morass of heavy orc feet so Aragorn could determine they were among them (having had a premonition that they were being tracked...intuitive little fellow!)...and then dropping his brooch the moment the orcs took him back up again. He did not get far, nor was it a way to escape.
*SIGH* I love that character...
Pippin is not the "silly" young hobbit that he pretends to be! ;O)
There are a LOT of things to quibble about in this article . . .