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About Pippin Here I decided it might be a good idea to tell a bit about Pippin for any of you pitifully deprived people who aren't quite sure who he is.
General Information First off, Pippin is a hobbit. Hobbits are little creatures with furry feet who like to eat a lot (six meals a day when they can get them) and drink a lot, and who generally don't like adventures. Hobbits live longer than humans and mature slower, thirty is considered "of age". Hobbits live in Middle Earth, a world created by the much worshiped literary genius, J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle Earth is brought to screen by the amazing director/producer, Peter Jackson. Read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (including The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) by J.R.R. Tolkien to learn more about hobbits and the other races, cultures languages and places of Middle Earth. Also watch The Fellowship of the Ring, now out on DVD and VHS, and The Two Towers, which will come to theatres on December 18. Pip's full name is Peregrin Took, he is the son of Paladin Took II. The Tooks are a more adventuresome clan of hobbits; they have been known to occasionaly do unexpected things. Pippin (at the time the books and movies take place) is twenty-nine, still in his "tweens" and the youngest of the hobbit quartet that becomes wrapped up in the war and the doings of "big people". Pippin is best friends with Merry, (whose full name is Meriadoc Brandybuck) and the two are always seen together, and often get into trouble together.
Some Interesting Facts that Fans Might Appreciate Pippin was married to Diamond of Longcleeve (that lucky girl! *gets very very jealous*) and they named their son Faramir, after the Steward of Gondor whose life Pippin saved. Faramir married Goldilocks, one of Samwise Gamgee's many daughters. Billy Boyd, who plays Pip in the movies, is thirty-four. I find it interesting that he is actually older than Pippin, and manages to look somewhere between seventeen and twenty on screen, which is about what twenty-nine translates to in human years. Click Here to read my short essay on why I like Pippin
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