War of the Ring The Shire and ruined it. They were defeated by Hobbits under the lead of Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took (Merry and Pippin) in the Battle of Bywater on 3 November. The Hobbits headed to Hobbiton where Frodo ordered Saruman and Wormtongue to leave the Shire. Wormtongue however killed Saruman, before he himself was killed by the Hobbits and their arrows. With the death of the wizard Saruman, the War of the Ring finally ended. The War of the Ring had great influence on all of the lands of the northwest of Middle-earth. Most importantly it led to the restoration of
Peregrin Took of the Fellowship and spend much of "The Two Towers" with their own story line. Impetuous and curious, he enlists (in "The Return of the King") as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fought in several battles during the War of the Ring. In the epilogues to the main story, Pippin returns to the Shire and becomes "Thain" or hereditary leader of the land before dying and being buried as a hero in Gondor. Peregrin was the only son and heir of Paladin Took II, the Thain of the Shire. His best friend Meriadoc Brandybuck, more commonly known