Pippin is the youngest (I think) of the hobbits, he is also rather hasty and unthinking.
Elrond also wanted to send someone back to warn the Shire folk of the danger likely to come from Mordor in the near future.
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Fearlessness is better than a faint-heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.
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