“No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.”

Peregrin Took, more commonly known as Pippin, is a hobbit of the the Shire, and one of Frodo Baggins' youngest and closest friends. He is a member of the Fellowship of the Ring and, after the War of the Ring, became thirty-second Thain of the Shire.