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Associated with Great Smials in the Tookland, and possibly Whitwell in the Tookland. 1Meaning
Peregrin means 'traveller in strange countries'
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Peregrin Took I (‘Pippin’)
Son of Paladin Took II of Great Smials, Peregrin later became Thain Peregrin I of the Shire; he travelled with the Company of the Ring. With Meriadoc Brandybuck, he was separated from the Company at Parth Galen, and taken captive by Orcs. Escaping into Fangorn Forest, he saw the destruction of Isengard and travelled with Gandalf to Minas Tirith, where he became a bondsman of Steward Denethor II.
Pippin, as Peregrin was universally known, was the youngest of Frodo's companions. He was only twenty-eight years old when he set out with Frodo and Sam from Bag End on the first part of their great journey, which was considered very young for a Hobbit. At first, he seemed to be rather unsuited to a long journey - through the early part of their travels, we see him regularly calling for rests or meals. As befitted the son of the Shire's Thain, though, he had a good general knowledge of that land and its people.
Peregrin inherited the title Thain of the Shire in the year IV 13 (1434 by the Shire-reckoning). During his Thainship, he remained in close contact with Gondor, and built a library of great historical importance at Great Smials. The works he collected were mainly concerned with the history of Númenor and the Exiles after its Downfall, and so were of little interest to the Hobbits of the Shire, but were of great significance to the larger world. The Tale of Years was probably prepared at Great Smials, with help from Meriadoc Brandybuck.
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Peregrin said that his father Paladin 'farms the lands round Whitwell' (The Return of the King V 1, Minas Tirith), which seems to imply some kind of connection, without being very specific about the arrangement. One reading would be that Peregrin grew up on his father's farm at Whitwell, but this isn't the only possible interpretation. Alternatively, it may be that Peregrin and his father grew up among their extended family at Great Smials, and Paladin merely managed the Whitwell farm from there. Regardless of these questions, after Paladin became Thain, the family would unquestionably have dwelt at the Thain's residence of Great Smials. |
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Adalgrim Took, Adamanta Chubb, Ants, Aragorn Elessar, Banks Family, Baranor, Battle of Bywater, Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Battle Pit, Beechbone, Beregond, Bergil, Book of the Stewards, Bregalad, Chronology of the Westlands, [See the full list...]Companions of the Ring, Company of the Ring, Council of Elrond, Counsellor of the North-kingdom, Crickhollow, Dead Tree, Diamond of Long Cleeve, Dol Baran, East Anórien, East Wall of Rohan, Eastfarthing of the Shire, Eglantine, Eglantine Banks, Elfwine, Elven-cloaks, Ent-draughts, Ent-strides, Éothain, Ernil i Pheriannath, Everard Took, Fangorn Forest, Faramir Took I, Fastred of Greenholm, Folco Boffin, Fourth Age, Foxes, Free Land, Frodo Baggins, Gildor Inglorion, Goldilocks Gamgee, Gollum, Green Hill Country, Grishnákh, Hall of the White Tower, High Court, Hildigard Took, Hildigrim Took, Hill of the Eye, Hobbit-speech, Holbytlan, Horse-country, Ingold, Iorlas, Lampwrights’ Street, Legolas Greenleaf, Living Creatures, Long Cleeve, Longbottom Leaf, Lord of the Ring, Lugdush, Maggot’s Lane, Master, Mauhúr, Meriadoc Brandybuck (‘Merry’), Mering Stream, Mimosa Bunce, Nine Companions, Nínui, Northerners, Old Guesthouse, Orcs of the Misty Mountains, Orcs of the White Hand, Orofarnë, Outlands, Oxen, Paladin Took II, Pearl Took, Periannath, Pervinca Took, Pimpernel Took, Pippin Gamgee, Ponto Baggins, Prince of the Halflings, Rath Celerdain, Rath Dínen, Red Book of the Periannath, Rhymes of Lore, River Anduin, Rosa Baggins, Sapphira Brockhouse, Saruman, Seventh Gate, Shire-reckoning, Shire-thain, Silmarillion, Stone of Orthanc, Targon, Thain of the Shire, The Bold, The Golden Perch, The Questioner, The Three Hunters, The Wise, Third Company of the Citadel, Three Kindreds, Travellers, Treebeard’s Hill, Troll-holes, Uglúk, Uruk-hai, Warden of Westmarch, Wellinghall, Westmarch of the Shire, Whitwell, Willie Banks, Wingfoot, Wise People, Woodhall
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