Peregrin Took

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peregrin Took better known to his friends as Pippin, or Pip, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth, a Hobbit, and one of Frodo Baggins's youngest but dearest friends. He was part of the Nine that made up th Fellowship of the Ring that departed from Rivendell in T.A. 3018. Peregrin was the only son of Paladin Took II and wife Eglantine Banks, and therefore inherited Paladin's title of Thain of the Shire upon his death in F.A. 13. He had three older sisters, Pearl Took, Pimpernel Took, and Pervinca Took. His best friend Meriadoc Brandybuck was his cousin, son of Paladin's sister Esmeralda Brandybuck. Upon handing over the Thainship to his son Faramir Took, he and Meriadoc rode together to Rohan and Gondor, and passed what short years they had left in Gondor until they died sometime after S.R. 1484. They were laid in Rath Dínen.