Middle Earth/Pippin

Peregrin Took, better known to his friends as Pippin, was one of the four hobbits who ventured from the Shire with Frodo. He was not invited to go, but he and Merry refused to let their friend go off on a dangerous quest alone.

The Took family was an old and venerable one in the history of the shire, descending from the Old Took. They also had quite a reputation for "queerness", a quality not exactly valued by Hobbits. They were always going off on adventures and such, a quite un-Hobbitlike thing to do.

At Rivendell he officially became one of the Fellowship of the Ring. Along with Merry, he befriended old Treebeard, leader of the Ents.

Compare: Merry