Peregrin Took Took-land in which the Took clan lived was a very hilly region of the Shire and was therefore vaguely similar to Scotland, and that the Tooks invented the game of golf, just like the Scots. Tolkien's own pronunciation of "Took" was more similar to "Tuck." Although Pippin is the youngest of the four hobbits in the novels, Boyd is the oldest of the four actors. Peregrin Took Peregrin Took, more commonly known simply as Pippin, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings". He is closely tied with his friend and cousin,
Red Book of Westmarch gardener Samwise Gamgee. Tolkien provides a "title page" inscribed with various titles that had been subsequently rejected; the final title is Frodo's: Bilbo had translated material from Elvish lore from the Elder Days. This work, "Translations from the Elvish, by B.B.", comprised three volumes, also bound in red leather. After the defeat of Sauron (the Lord of the Rings) Bilbo gives these volumes to Frodo. These four volumes were "probably" (according to Tolkien) kept in a single red case. The volumes then pass into the keeping of Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's servant and later mayor of the Shire. In time, the