They roused the Ents against the wizard Saruman and saw his stronghold of Isengard destroyed. During a skirmish among his captors, Pippin and Merry escaped, and met the tree-giant Treebeard, leader of the Ents. While held captive, he purposefully dropped his elven brooch as a sign for Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, who were in pursuit. Īfter going downriver on the Anduin to Parth Galen with the Fellowship, Merry and Pippin were captured by Orcs. The Company recuperated in Lothlórien Pippin was given a brooch by the elf-queen Galadriel. The Company is later pursued by dangerous enemies including orcs, trolls, and a balrog. It seems to waken something far below Gandalf calls Pippin a "fool of a Took". While crossing the Misty Mountains through the tunnels of Moria, Pippin decides to drop a stone down a deep hole. At Rivendell, Elrond reluctantly chose Merry and Pippin as the last two members of the Company of the Ring. Pippin was the youngest of the four Hobbits who set out from the Shire, and the only one who had not yet come of age. His best friend Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck, was his cousin another good friend was Frodo Baggins. He had three older sisters, Pearl Took, Pimpernel Took, and Pervinca Took. Pippin was the only son and heir of Paladin Took II, the aristocratic and independent Thain of the Shire, who farmed at Whitwell near the Three Farthing Stone in the Tookland, and his wife Eglantine Banks. Pippin was born in Whitwell in the Tookland, a hilly area of the West Farthing of the Shire. With the other hobbits, he returns home, helps to lead the Scouring of the Shire, and becomes Thain or hereditary leader of the land.Ĭommentators have noted that his and Merry's actions serve to throw light on the characters of the good and bad Germanic lords Theoden of Rohan and Denethor, while their simple humour acts as a foil for the higher romance involving kings and the heroic Aragorn. Impetuous and curious, Pippin enlists as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fights in the Battle of the Morannon. He and Merry become separated from the rest of the group at the breaking of the Fellowship and spend much of The Two Towers with their own story line.
Pippin and Merry are introduced as a pair of young hobbits of the Shire who become ensnared in their friend Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring. He is closely tied with his friend and cousin, Merry Brandybuck, and the two are together during most of the story. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. Peregrin Took, commonly known simply as Pippin, is a fictional character from J.
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