Frodo remained content at Bag End until Gandalf returned and confirmed that Bilbo's Ring was actually the One Ring. Bilbo left to live with the Elves at Rivendell. Frodo became the Master of Bag End on their mutual birthday, when Frodo turned 33 and Bilbo turned 111. The Sackville-Bagginses in particular were disappointed at his return.Ī floor plan of Bag End, rendered in The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstadīy the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo adopted his cousin (and nephew) Frodo as his heir. Upon his return long later, he discovered his possessions being auctioned off, since the local population had assumed he had died. Here, Bilbo lived a quiet existence until the Wizard Gandalf appeared with thirteen Dwarves at the beginning of The Hobbit, and Bilbo went off on his first adventure. The beautiful home was a point of contention between Bilbo and his relatives the Sackville-Bagginses, who very much desired to own it. The grounds and home were maintained by the Gamgee family, most notably Hamfast ("The Gaffer"), and later his son, Samwise. Bag End was frequently visited, at least during Bilbo's time. The hobbit-hole was noted to have a green door with a round brass knob, all but countless rooms with round windows, and a garden. It was Bungo who built the smial for Belladonna, around the year TA 2889. It was the home of Bilbo Baggins, afterwards of Frodo Baggins, and later of Samwise Gamgee and his wife Rosie Cotton.īilbo Baggins had inherited the home from his parents, Bungo and Belladonna (Took) Baggins. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." - Opening sentence of The Hobbit, " An Unexpected Party"īag End, or Bag-End, was a smial situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. " In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.
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