Pippin comes into the story even before the Fellowship of the Ring began. He, Merry, Frodo, and Sam go from the Shire to Rivendell. Pippin is very faithful to his friends, and never abandons them. After the secret council of Elrond he told Elrond flat out that he would have to be kept under lock and key to be kept away from the Fellowship, otherwise he would just follow them anyway!
Pippin's curiosity in the fellowship is best shown in the Mines of Moria. When Gandalf was considering the choice among three passages, Pippin found a curious attraction to a well, and decided to drop a stone into it. This in time roused the orcs of their presence, and for the rest of the way through Moria they were either fighting or fleeing. Soon after this, Pippin and Merry become the prisoners of the orcs who came to take the halflings to Saruman. Here he showed a bit of sense, because he knew Aragorn and the others were coming for them, so he left the leaf of Lorien (that was on his cloak) behind for Aragorn to find, so that they might know that he and Merry were still alive.
Yet soon after this Merry and Pippin escaped from the orcs, and found themselves in the company of Treebeard or Fangorn. Here Pippin also showed some sense, and convinced Treebeard to help the Rohirrim to defeat the orcs, and to attack Isengard. Yet soon after this his curiosity got the best of him again, and he found himself looking into one of the last 7 seeing stones. Here Sauron learned of the hobbits whereabouts and sent a Nazgul to Isengard to investigate the situation. After this Gandalf knew it was no longer safe for Pippin to stay in Rohan, so close to Isengard, so Gandalf took him to Gondor, where Pippin became a soldier of Minis Tirith.
Now here is the part where Pippin shows his true courage and bravery: during the time when Denethor had died, and Aragorn had come to the city, and Pippin had just found Merry just after he had fought the Nazgul. Soon after this, while Merry and Eowyn were in the houses of healing, Aragorn led an army of men from both Rohan and Gondor to the Black Gate. At this battle, Pippin wanted to do a deed as great as Merry's, (a little hobbit competition here). Well he did. He fought a troll and nearly killed himself while doing this, for he killed the troll but the troll landed right on top of him, and he lay there until Gimli saw his hairy feet sticking out under the troll's body. Gimli believes Pippin is dead, and apparently Pippin is brought to life by the healing hand of Aragorn. Soon afterward, the whole Fellowship came together again in Minas Tirith, Aragorn was crowned King of Gondor, and the four hobbits went back to the Shire.
The shire was a mess when they got there. For Saruman (or "Sharkey" as his servants called him) had been torturing the hobbits as well as burning and destroying almost every good thing. When Merry and Pippin saw this, they rallied the hobbits together, and retook the Shire. Frodo and Sam weren't the great Captains that Merry and Pippin had become, so Sam protected his master and they waited for Merry and Pippin's instructions. After Saruman had been taken care of, and the Shire was once again put to its right, Merry and Pippin settled down after their long journey. Pippin married Diamond of Longcleeve, and they had a son named Faramir, after his hero and captain, plus other little hobbits to follow. Pippin lived a long,quiet life, and at the end returned with Merry to visit Rohan and Gondor.
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