"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,"
"cousin to Meriadoc's father, Saradoc Brandybuck. Their common ancestors are Gorbadoc Brandybuck and Mirabella Took Brandybuck. Frodo is moreover second (through her paternal grandfather Hildigrim Took) and third (through her paternal grandmother Rosa Baggins) cousin to Meriadoc's mother, Esmeralda Took. Frodo is also related to Peregrin Took, being his second and third cousin once removed (Peregrin's father, Paladin Took is, like his sister Esmeralda, second and third cousin to Frodo, as explained above). Even Fredegar Bolger (through his mother Rosamund Took) is second cousin once removed to Frodo. Frodo also shares a close relationship with his gardener Samwise Gamgee although"
"""faithful"" and ""friend"". Tolkien used Old English to represent Rohirric, another of his fictional languages, so ""Holdwine"", like ""Meriadoc Brandybuck"", is not what the character was actually called. Tolkien does not give Merry's real Rohirric name. It has been asserted that the name ""Meriadoc"" could be in itself an allusion to the British nobleman Conan Meriadoc, legendary founder of the House of Rohan in Brittany, since the character Meriadoc is closely associated with Tolkien's kingdom of Rohan. But Tolkien, in response to a reader's inquiry, denied that the Breton name inspired the name of his fictional kingdom. Meriadoc Brandybuck Meriadoc"
"was Drogo Took. He was later renamed Vigo, and the name Drogo reassigned to Frodo's father. After that, he was renamed Marmaduke, and finally Meriadoc Brandybuck. Frodo and Merry are first cousins once removed. Their common ancestors are Gorbadoc Brandybuck and Mirabella Took Brandybuck. Merry was born T.A. 2982 (or, in the Shire-reckoning, in 1382), in Buckland. He is the only child of Saradoc Brandybuck (T.A. 2940-F.A. 11), who was a Master of Buckland, and Esmeralda Brandybuck (née Took) (T.A. 2936- ?), the younger sister of Paladin Took II (T.A. 2933–3034), making him first cousin to Paladin's son Peregrin Took."
"Peregrin was born in the only son of Paladin Took II and wife Eglantine Banks. He had three older sisters, Pearl Took, Pimpernel Took, and Pervinca Took. They were raised in the Tooks' Great Smials and their father's farm at Whitwell. In 3001 Pippin and his family were among the 144 special guests at the Farewell Party of Bilbo Baggins, a relative in Hobbiton. His best friend Meriadoc Brandybuck was his cousin, son of Paladin's sister Esmeralda Brandybuck. He was also good friends with Frodo Baggins, a more remote cousin. In Ferumbras III, the Thain of the Shire died; Pippin's"
"Samwise Gamgee Samwise ""Sam"" Gamgee (later known as Samwise Gardner) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Samwise is one of the main characters of ""The Lord of the Rings"", in which he fills an archetypal role as the sidekick of the primary protagonist, Frodo Baggins. Sam is a member of the Fellowship of the Ring, which also includes Frodo Baggins, Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli son of Gloin, Boromir, Aragorn son of Arathorn, and Gandalf. At the beginning of the story, Sam is Frodo's gardener, and is drawn into Frodo's adventure by Gandalf while"
"buy a Stuart Light Tank (M3A1). Both are now married and live in Nottingham, England. They have described the illustrator John Howe as an ""old friend"", and share an interest in miniature wargaming and military history with ""The Lord of the Rings"" film director Peter Jackson. They also had a cameo appearance in """" film as Rohirrim at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, alongside Games Workshop designers Alessio Cavatore and Brian Nelson. They can be seen near the Mumakil Peregrin Took goes searching for Meriadoc Brandybuck among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of"
"territory under Frumgar. At the end of the Third Age, Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Samwise Gamgee, and Peregrin Took were captured at the Barrow-downs on their journey to Rivendell. When rescued by Tom Bombadil, Merry thought he had been stabbed by one of the men of Carn Dûm, but then realized this was a dream. In """", the remains of Angmar consist of a mountainous, barren wasteland populated by hillmen and a large army of the Witch-king amassed to conquer Eriador. At the northern edge of Angmar are the ruins of Carn Dûm, which have been partially rebuilt and populated"
"Dominic Monaghan Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (; born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. Monaghan first gained fame for being Hetty Wainthropp's sidekick Geoffrey in ""Hetty Wainthropp Investigates"" (1996–98). He then played Meriadoc ""Merry"" Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy ""The Lord of the Rings"" (2001–03) based on the novel of the same name by J.R.R Tolkien, Charlie Pace on the television show ""Lost"" (2004–2010), and Chris Bradley in superhero film """" (2009). He currently hosts the nature program ""Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan"" (2012–present). Monaghan was born in Berlin, West Germany, to British parents: Maureen, a"
"the American version of ""CQC"". Monaghan provided the inspiration for the naming of Billy Boyd's band Beecake after he sent his friend a picture of a cake covered in bees. Dominic Monaghan Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (; born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. Monaghan first gained fame for being Hetty Wainthropp's sidekick Geoffrey in ""Hetty Wainthropp Investigates"" (1996–98). He then played Meriadoc ""Merry"" Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy ""The Lord of the Rings"" (2001–03) based on the novel of the same name by J.R.R Tolkien, Charlie Pace on the television show ""Lost"" (2004–2010), and Chris"
"Black Gate, while in the book he remained in Minas Tirith to heal from the wound he received when assisting in the killing of the Witch-king of Angmar and was instrumental in the romance between Faramir and Éowyn. In the prefaces and appendices to ""The Lord of the Rings"", Tolkien employed the conceit that he was the modern translator of a unique manuscript, the ""Red Book of Westmarch"", and that his stories of Middle-earth derived from that. In this guise of translator, he maintained that the character's real name was not ""Meriadoc Brandybuck"" but rather ""Kalimac Brandagamba"". This was said"
"of the Brandybucks during the War of the Ring was Meriadoc Brandybuck: Merry of the famous Fellowship of the Ring. He had been into the Old Forest ""several times"", and he had a key to the gate. On Merry's advice, Frodo Baggins (the bearer of the One Ring) decided to attempt a traversal of the dreadful forest in order to evade the pursuit of Black Riders: the forest was considered the lesser of two evils. The Old Forest experiences of Frodo, Merry and their companions Samwise Gamgee and Peregrin Took (and their ponies) are detailed in ""The Fellowship of the"
"he is believed to have left for Valinor on one of the last ships of Círdan, as he too was a Ring-bearer, having borne the One Ring during Frodo's captivity by orcs. Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took became ""Master of Buckland"" and ""Thain of the Shire"" respectively in due time. They remained in close friendship with the royal houses of Rohan and Gondor. When of advanced age they departed for Gondor and Rohan together, and both died around Spring F.A. 63. They were buried in Rath Dínen with the greats of Gondor. Legolas is said to have, after the death"
"Trunnion's lifestyle may have inspired Charles Dickens to create the character of Wemmick in ""Great Expectations"". Another interesting character is Peregrine's friend Cadwallader Crabtree, an old misanthrope who amuses himself by playing ingenious jokes on naive people. Smollett also caricatured many of his enemies in the novel, most notably Henry Fielding and the actor David Garrick. Fitzroy Henry Lee was supposedly the model for Hawser Trunnion. George Orwell, writing in the ""Tribune"" in 1944, said regarding the novels ""Roderick Random"" and ""Peregrine Pickle"": The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish"
"Brian Nelson, and Alan and Michael Perry. They can be seen near the Oliphaunt when Peregrin Took goes searching for Meriadoc Brandybuck among the debris from the battle, and are also on the base of Games Workshop's Mûmak miniature. Games Workshop created two miniatures of Peter Jackson, based on his appearance as a Breeland man during the """": one is owned by the director, and the other is kept on display at Warhammer World in England. Games Workshop has also released a model of Peter Jackson as one of the Corsairs of Umbar from """". Similar to ""Warhammer Fantasy Battle"""
"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"
"was broken: Boromir attempted to take the One Ring by force from Frodo Baggins, who fled; Boromir was shortly afterward killed defending Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry) and Peregrin Took (Pippin) from Orcs, who had been sent by Saruman to capture the Ring; and the Orcs absconded with Merry and Pippin. After Frodo escaped from Boromir, he sat upon the Seat of Seeing while still wearing the Ring, and was able to see events hundreds of miles distant. From Amon Hen, Frodo and Samwise Gamgee crossed the Anduin on their way east to Mordor, while Merry and Pippin were carried by Saruman's"
"Gamwich"", which develops into ""Samwise Gammidgy"" and eventually comes to ""Samwise Gamgee"" in modern English. Frodo affectionately dubbed him ""Samwise the stouthearted"". The appendix of ""The Return of the King"" says that in F.A. 7 (S.R. 1427), Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for the first of seven consecutive seven-year terms. Tolkien admired heroism out of loyalty and love, but despised arrogance, pride and wilfulness. The courage displayed by Samwise Gamgee on his journey with Frodo, his subjection to dangers and the preparedness to die out of loyalty for Frodo is the kind of spirit that Tolkien praised in"
"Frodo never to use the Ring, as to do so will begin to corrupt him, and will draw the attention of Sauron and the Nazgûl. On the night of Frodo's departure, a Nazgûl arrives in The Shire looking for the Baggins' home. Frodo is able to evade the Nazgûl and heads to meet Sam, whom he finds accompanied by Peregrin ""Pippin"" Took (James Arnold Taylor) and Meriadoc ""Merry"" Brandybuck (Quinton Flynn). Much to Frodo's surprise they know about the Ring and Sauron, as they have been spying on Bilbo, Frodo and Gandalf for years. They vow to join Frodo on"
"Peregrin Took had used the Pink Fairies name for various activities including one shambolic gig in Manchester (with Farren on vocals, Took on guitar, Twink on drums and his girlfriend Sally ""Silver Darling"" Melzer on keyboards) and the recording of Farren's solo album, ""Mona – The Carnivorous Circus"". Within a few months Twink had left, followed by Farren, by which point Took had renamed the embryonic band Shagrat. In 1970 Twink recruited the remaining Deviants to a new Pink Fairies line-up. Took meanwhile continued with Shagrat as a vehicle for his own songs, and the two bands would appear as"
"Sean Astin Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; born February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, director and producer. His notable acting roles include Samwise Gamgee in ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–2003), Mikey Walsh in ""The Goonies"" (1985), Daniel ""Rudy"" Ruettiger in ""Rudy"" (1993), and Bob Newby in the second season of ""Stranger Things"" (2017). Astin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actress Patty Duke (1946–2016). At the time, it was erroneously reported that entertainer Desi Arnaz Jr. was his biological father. When Michael Tell, a writer, music promoter and publisher of the newspaper"
"by Éowyn and Meriadoc Brandybuck. In response to the arrival of the Rohirrim and the parallel attack from Minas Tirith, Gothmog throws all of his army's reserves into the fray. His fate is not described, although Tolkien writes that almost all of the servants of Sauron who fought before the gates of Minas Tirith were killed. Tolkien writes nothing else about Gothmog — not even what race he belonged to. In 1971, it was suggested in ""The Complete Guide to Middle-earth"" that he was possibly the second highest Nazgûl, but in ""Unfinished Tales"" (first published posthumously in 1980), previously unpublished"
"The Metatemporal Detective The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of short fiction by the prolific award-winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock . The stories chart the adventures of the Holmesian detective Sir Seaton Begg, his trusty sidekick Dr. Taffy Sinclair and his complex relationship with his cousin, nemesis, and occasional ally, Monsieur Zenith. The stories are set in an eclectic range of times and places and were written over the course of Moorcock's long career. The book features characters from the Moorcock 'multiverse' including the ubiquitous Una Persson. Begg owes much to the character of Sexton Blake, the eponymous magazine"
"also appears in most other Oz novels as a notable inhabitant of the Emerald City, most prominently in ""The Scalawagons of Oz"", in which he operates the production of the Scalawagons. In the comic book ""Oz Squad"", Tik-Tok's ""Internal Clockwork Morality Spring"" winds down and causes him to act violent and sexual, though he closely resembles Neill's depiction. A somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel """". In the novel, ""tiktok"" is used as an adjective for any mechanical or robotic being. The character Madame Morrible has a tiktok servant, called Grommetik,"
"the 2016 presidential election, Astin campaigned for Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Sean Astin Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; born February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, director and producer. His notable acting roles include Samwise Gamgee in ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001–2003), Mikey Walsh in ""The Goonies"" (1985), Daniel ""Rudy"" Ruettiger in ""Rudy"" (1993), and Bob Newby in the second season of ""Stranger Things"" (2017). Astin was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of actress Patty Duke (1946–2016). At the time, it was erroneously reported that entertainer Desi Arnaz Jr. was his"
"meantime, Bilbo had left the Shire to live in Rivendell, and upon the advice of Gandalf had (very reluctantly) given the Ring to his nephew, Frodo Baggins. With the information given him by Gollum, Sauron, still unable to take physical form, thus sent the Nazgûl to the Shire to retrieve the One Ring. Frodo, and his friends, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin ""Pippin"" Took and Meriadoc ""Merry"" Brandybuck managed to escape the Shire and head towards Bree. The game begins with Eradan (voiced by Nolan North), Andriel (Laura Bailey) and Farin (Fred Tatasciore) arriving at the Prancing Pony in Bree, where they"
"Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, as the new ""doorwardens"", received Théoden King of Rohan, Aragorn and Gandalf at the gates. During the Fourth Age Isengard was restored, and the entire valley granted to the Ents. The Ents tore down the walls of the ring, and named the new forest the Treegarth of Orthanc. Orthanc became again a tower of the Reunited Kingdom of Aragorn King Elessar. The Orcs of Isengard bore upon their shields a White Hand on a black field, and on their helmets an S-rune () to signify ""Saruman"". A carved and painted White Hand of stone was"
"arrival of soldiers from other parts of Gondor from the gate of the city together, becoming very good friends in the process. During the siege of Minas Tirith, Bergil helped the healers of the city as an errand runner and so eventually contributed to the healing of Faramir, the Steward's son and later Prince of Ithilien. Bergil who was running errands for the healers of Minas Tirith, told Gandalf where Pippin and the injured Meriadoc Brandybuck were; Merry, suffering from the Black Breath had gotten lost. He was also the one who brought the ""athelas"" leaves to Aragorn; at that"
"""Tale of Years"" (part of which was used as the timeline for ""The Lord of the Rings"") and ""Herblore of the Shire"", written by Frodo's contemporary Meriadoc Brandybuck, used for information about pipe-weed. As a memoir and history, the contents of the ""Red Book"" probably correspond to Tolkien's work as follows: However, readers are probably not intended to imagine Tolkien's published works as direct translations from the fictitious Red Book, but rather as Tolkien's own scholarly and literary adaptations of this supposed source material. Some events and details concerning Gollum and the magic ring in the first edition of ""The"
"sidekicks, including Lex Luthor's Mercy Graves, the Joker's Harley Quinn, Jigsaw's Amanda, Shinnok's Quan Chi, Ben Wade's Charlie Prince (from ""Three-Ten to Yuma""), Wario's Waluigi, Dr. Eggman's Orbot and Cubot and Magneto's Mystique (only in the ""X-Men"" live action films). Frodo Baggins's Samwise Gamgee, and Harry Potter's Ron Weasley, as well as the afore-mentioned Sancho Panza and Doctor Watson, are notable sidekicks from fiction. In fiction, the term ""sidekick"" commonly refers to assistants to crime-fighting heroes. However, sidekicks do not necessarily accompany a crime-fighter, such as Leporello, Don Giovanni's servant in the 1787 opera. Villains can also have sidekicks, who"
"Took (as Sam said at the Field of Cormallen, Merry was three inches taller than he ought to have been). In the Brandybuck family tree as it appeared in the First Edition, the name of Merry's wife was not recorded. In a revision made in 1966, the name of Estella Bolger, sister of Fredegar, was added in this role; the revision was initially made in some editions but not in others, as described in the ""Note of the Text"" by Douglas Anderson which is prefaced to recent editions. At the same time, Tolkien added Estella to the Took family tree,"
"a translation of the original name Adûni. In Sindarin the language was called Annúnaid (Westron), or Falathren (Shore-language). The alternate term ""Common Speech"" translates the Westron term Sôval Phârë, of identical meaning. In ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"", Westron was presented as having been completely translated into English. This had certain important implications: first of all, proper names with derivations somewhat evident to speakers of Westron had been 'translated', to preserve the effect. Thus, names like ""Baggins"", ""Bagshot Row"", ""Peregrin"", ""Rivendell"", etc. are presented as not the ""actual"" names. For example, Meriadoc Brandybuck's actual name is supposed"
"as recurring character Tim Richards in ""Emmerdale"". December 2017 Mark is starring in Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime in Bournemouth where he plays the devilish Fleshcreep. Mark Moraghan Mark Stephen Moraghan (born 27 January 1963) is an English film and television actor. He has appeared in many British drama series including ""Peak Practice"", ""London's Burning"" and ""Heartbeat"". He is most famous for being the narrator for the children's television show ""Thomas & Friends"" from the seventeenth to twenty-first seasons, and his roles as Greg Shadwick in ""Brookside"", Ray Wyatt in ""Dream Team"", Owen Davies in ""Holby City"" and Adrian Atkins"