Who's your favourite hobbit...

[the guy who be short]

Who in their right mind would vote for the brother of a Murderer! That's right! Or possibly a manslaughterer.

Letters, no. 214:

In the spring of SY 1402 [Lalia's] clumsy attendant let the heavy chair run over the threshold and tipped Lalia down the flight of steps into the garden. So ended a reign and life that might well have rivalled that of the Great Took.
It was widely rumoured that the attendant was Pearl (Pippin's sister) though the Tooks tried to keep the matter within the family. At the celebration of Ferumbras' accession the displeasure and regret of the family was formally expressed by the exclusion of Pearl from the ceremony and feast.

I'm not overly fond of Sam, but at least his near kin didn't casually go around throwing old women down stairs. The despicable thing is the way the Tooks covered it up - I wouldn't trust any one of them, yet alone vote for one as my favourite!