12 Facts About Pippin Took

Pippin Took is closely tied with his friend and cousin, Merry Brandybuck, and the two are together during most of the story.

Impetuous and curious, Pippin Took enlists as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fights in the Battle of the Morannon.

Commentators have noted that the actions of Merry and Pippin Took serve to throw light on the characters of the good and bad Germanic lords Theoden of Rohan and Denethor of Gondor, while their simple humour acts as a foil for the higher romance involving kings and the heroic Aragorn.

Pippin Took had three older sisters, Pearl Took, Pimpernel Took, and Pervinca Took.

Pippin Took was the youngest of the four Hobbits who set out from the Shire, and the only one who had not yet come of age.

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Pippin Took, without asking permission, looked into it and saw Sauron himself.

The effect on Sauron was important, as Sauron wrongly assumed that Pippin Took was the hobbit with the One Ring, and that he was Saruman's prisoner.

In Minas Tirith, Pippin Took was brought to the city's Steward Denethor, and volunteered to serve him, out of respect for Denethor's son Boromir, who had died trying to defend Merry and Pippin Took from the Orcs.

Pippin Took was the only hobbit to join the Army of the West, led by Aragorn, as it assaulted the Black Gate of Mordor: this was a feint to distract Sauron from the One Ring's journey towards Mount Doom.

Pippin Took married Diamond of Long Cleeve; they had a son, Faramir.

Pippin Took later became the Took, head of his clan, and Thain of The Shire.

Pippin Took writes that the two leaders receive the allegiance of a hobbit, but very differently: Denethor, Steward of Gondor, undervalues Pippin because he is small, and binds him with a formal oath, whereas Theoden, King of Rohan, treats Merry with love, which the hobbit responds to.