"family tree of the Baggins Family. The word Baggins is actually a translation of the Westron word, ""Labingi"", which was related to the Westron word ""laban"", meaning bag. The name is associated with Bag End. In the translations of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, the name Baggins is translated to other languages, while keeping the ""bag"" meaning. Baggins of Hobbiton In J.R.R. Tolkiens' legendarium, the Baggins of Hobbiton, more commonly referred to as the Baggins family, were a hobbit family that lived in the village of Hobbiton. Important members included Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins. The Baggins"
"the region of Middle-earth known as the Shire, Bilbo Baggins, an eccentric and wealthy Hobbit, celebrates his eleventyhundredth birthday by vanishing from his birthday party, leaving his greatest treasure, a mysterious magic Ring, to his young relative Frodo Baggins (""Springle Ring""). The Ring is greatly desired by the Dark Lord Sauron, who could use it to conquer the world, and must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom in Sauron's country of Mordor. Frodo and his friends Samwise Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took set out along the road that leads out of the Shire (""The Road Goes On"")."
"They first lived in the hamlet of Sarehole, which Tolkien said were the happiest years of his youth. Sarehole is said to have been the model for The Shire, home to the hobbits. Every year the Tolkien Weekend is held at Sarehole Recreation Ground and Moseley Bog Local Nature Reserve part of the Shire Country Park. 2005 commemorated the 50th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the Rings. Ronald and his brother spent many hours playing around Sarehole Mill and being chased away by the miller's son. The Mill features in ""The Hobbit"" when Bilbo Baggins runs ""as"
"inspiration for The Shire, a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ""The Hobbit"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"". Tolkien was thought to have named Bilbo Baggins' house ""Bag End"" after his Aunt Jane's Worcestershire farm. Tolkien wrote of Worcestershire, ""Any corner of that county (however fair or squalid) is in an indefinable way 'home' to me, as no other part of the world is."" Worcestershire is one of the three counties associated with the Border Morris style of English folk dancing. Worcestershire Monkey is a popular Border Morris dance; although normally performed as a group"
"of the Ring; Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. In the meantime, Bilbo had left the Shire to live in Rivendell, and upon the advice of Gandalf had (very reluctantly) given the Ring to his nephew, Frodo Baggins. With the information given him by Gollum, Sauron, still unable to take physical form, thus sent the Nazgûl to the Shire to retrieve the One Ring. Frodo, and his friends, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin ""Pippin"" Took and Meriadoc ""Merry"" Brandybuck managed to escape the Shire and make it to Bree, where they encountered the ranger Aragorn, the last surviving descendent of Isildur, and rightful"
"that of the Shire, which was originally colonized from Bree. There were four villages in Bree-land: The name ""Bree"" means ""hill"" according to Tolkien, referring to the fact that the village of Bree and the surrounding Bree-land were clustered around a large hill. The name of the village Brill, which Bree may have been inspired by, also means ""hill"". ""Brill"" is a modern contraction of ""Bre-hyll"". Both syllables of ""Bre-hyll"" mean ""hill"" – the first is Celtic and the second Anglo-Saxon. In ""The Fellowship of the Ring"", Frodo Baggins met Strider (Aragorn) at the largest and most popular inn in"
"his name partly from Sarehole Mill, in the vicinity of which Tolkien spent ""the most idyllic period"" of his childhood. The Shire is imagined as the West Midlands in a more remote past, akin to the Old English kingdom of Mercia, aspects of which serve also as a model for the Mark of the Rohirrim. The Shire makes an appearance in both the 1977 ""The Hobbit"" and the 1978 ""The Lord of the Rings"" animated films. In ""The Lord of the Rings"" motion picture trilogy, the Shire appeared in both """" and """". The Shire scenes were shot at a"
"intruders. The only strangers to enter the Shire were the Dwarves travelling on the Great Road that ran through the Shire to and from their mines in the Blue Mountains, and the occasional Elves on their way to the Grey Havens. This peaceful situation changed after Bilbo Baggins's acquisition of the One Ring in the year 1341 of the Shire Reckoning (Third Age 2941). Shortly after the beginning of the events described in ""The Lord of the Rings"" (autumn of S.R. 1418), the Shire was first visited by the Nine Ringwraiths and then captured by Saruman through his underling Lotho"
"hobbit named Baggins in a land called ""Shire"". Sauron sent the Ringwraiths forth to search for the Ring. The Riders did not at first know the location of the Shire, and were dispelled by Saruman from Isengard, but when they came by chance upon Gríma Wormtongue in Rohan, he told them what he knew of Saruman's plans, including his interest in the Shire and the Shire's location. The Witch-king and the other Nazgûl rode from Mordor and Dol Guldur searching for the Shire. Four entered the Shire, and found that ""Baggins"" had moved to Buckland. Several Nazgûl attacked Gandalf on"
"Shire after the War of the Ring had concluded. Shire (Middle-earth) The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ""The Lord of the Rings"" and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the northwest of the continent, in the large region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. In the languages invented by Tolkien, its name in Westron was Sûza ""Shire"" or Sûzat ""The Shire"", while its name in Sindarin was i Drann. According"
"Shire (Middle-earth) The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ""The Lord of the Rings"" and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the northwest of the continent, in the large region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. In the languages invented by Tolkien, its name in Westron was Sûza ""Shire"" or Sûzat ""The Shire"", while its name in Sindarin was i Drann. According to Tolkien, the Shire measured 40 leagues (193 km,"
"Bilbo Baggins Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel ""The Hobbit"", as well as a supporting character in ""The Lord of the Rings"". In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translations from the fictitious volume of ""The Red Book of Westmarch"", Bilbo is the author of ""The Hobbit"" and translator of various ""works from the elvish"" (as mentioned in the end of ""The Return of the King""). In ""The Hobbit"", Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit in comfortable middle age, was hired as a ""burglar"" –despite his initial objections–"
"Shire and in nearby Bree. Tolkien says that there were three kinds of Hobbit: the Stoors, Fallohides and Harfoots. The hobbits who appear most prominently in Tolkien's stories are Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo Baggins, who each have an important role in the quest to destroy the One Ring of Power forged by Sauron; another is Sméagol, who took the One Ring after it was found in the Anduin. Frodo is told by Gandalf that Sméagol was part of a Hobbit-like riverfolk, but long possession of the ring corrupted and deformed him into the creature Gollum. By the time"
"pursuit of Bilbo a few years after losing the Ring, but the trail was cold. He made his way to the edge of Mordor, where he met the monstrous spider Shelob and became her spy, worshipping her and bringing her food. He was eventually captured by Sauron's forces and tortured, revealing to Sauron the names of ""Baggins"" and ""the Shire"". His testimony alerted the Dark Lord of Mordor to the existence and significance of Hobbits in general and the Baggins family in particular. He was freed, but was soon caught by Gandalf and Aragorn, who interrogated him about the Ring"
"in Tolkien's work. In 2012, they named a hilly area ""Bilbo Colles"" after Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo Baggins Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel ""The Hobbit"", as well as a supporting character in ""The Lord of the Rings"". In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translations from the fictitious volume of ""The Red Book of Westmarch"", Bilbo is the author of ""The Hobbit"" and translator of various ""works from the elvish"" (as mentioned in the end of ""The Return of the King""). In ""The Hobbit"", Bilbo Baggins,"
"before Hobbits settled the Shire: namely by the kingdom of Arnor, which ""once had many farms"" in the area. The small road (and the smials it served) at the foot of the Hill below Bag End in Hobbiton-across-the-Water. Bag End's gardeners, the Gamgees, were one of the families living in these smials. Daddy Twofoot lived next-door to the Gamgees. Bagshot Row, which was named from the ejecta that was 'shot' out by the excavation of Bag End above, led west from the Hill Road. During the War of the Ring, Bagshot Row was demolished by Saruman's ruffians, who turned it"
"at thirty-three. At the birthday party, Bilbo departs from the Shire, the land of the Hobbits, for what he calls a permanent holiday. Bilbo does so by using the magic ring (that he had found on his journey) to disappear and is aided by Gandalf the Wizard with a flash and puff of smoke, leading many in the Shire to believe he has gone mad. He leaves Frodo his remaining belongings, including his home, Bag End, and the Ring. It becomes apparent that Bilbo has been strained over the past several years, and he is at first unwilling to give"
"vagabonds. Butterbur is put at ease and finally understands when they tell him that things will soon improve because Strider is the new king and will come north to stabilize the region. They leave Bree and come to the borders of the Shire where Gandalf leaves them to go and visit Bombadil. The Hobbits finally return home to the Shire, only to find that the Shire was in ruins, its inhabitants oppressed by Lotho Sackville-Baggins (usually called ""The Chief"" or ""The Boss"") who is in reality controlled by a shadowy figure called ""Sharkey"". Sharkey has taken complete control of the"
"of the River Shirebourn. After the original settlement, hobbits also expanded to the east into Buckland between the Baranduin and the Old Forest, and (much later) to the west into the Westmarch between the White Downs and the Tower Hills. The Shire was originally divided into four Farthings. The outlying lands of Buckland and the Westmarch were formally added after the War of the Ring, although Buckland had been settled by Hobbits long before the war. Within the Farthings there are some smaller unofficial clan homelands: the Tooks nearly all live in or near Tuckborough in Tookland, for instance. A"
"Sindarin. Tolkien also suggested that the Sindarin word ""neldor"" ""beech"" was a name of Hírilorn, being derived from ""neld-"" ""three"" and ""orn"" ""tree"". A sapient willow in the Old Forest, to the east of the Shire. When the company of Frodo Baggins was passing nearby, Old Man Willow cast a spell of sleep upon them, trapping them; the hobbits were saved by Tom Bombadil. A tree that grew near Bag End in the Shire. During the renowned party held by Bilbo Baggins in , a huge tent was erected around it, where the main guests were assembled. This Party Tree"
"lent a spare hood and cloak (also dark green) to Bilbo when they set out on their journey. Although the garments were ""too large"" for Bilbo, and at first made him feel embarrassingly ""comic"", he wore them throughout the Quest, and they became valued mementoes of that adventure. Sixty years later, following his Farewell Party, Bilbo quit the Shire, wearing his old hood and cloak. He again journeyed east, and visited Erebor, where Dwalin was living. After the Quest Dwalin lived the rest of his life in Erebor. There he was fabulously wealthy, a far cry from his early childhood."
"Frodo Baggins Frodo Baggins is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, and the main protagonist of ""The Lord of the Rings"". Frodo is a hobbit of the Shire who inherits the One Ring from his cousin (referred to as his uncle) Bilbo Baggins and undertakes the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom. He is also mentioned in Tolkien's posthumously published works, ""The Silmarillion"" and ""Unfinished Tales"". Frodo did not appear until the third draft of ""A Long-Expected Party"" (the first chapter of ""The Lord of the Rings""), when he was named Bingo (after"
"oldest Hobbit ever in Middle-earth. (The natural lifespan of Hobbits is about 100 years.) According to Appendix C of ""The Lord of the Rings"", Bilbo was born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took in , or S.R. 1290. ""The Lord of the Rings"" gives the date of Bilbo's birthday as 22 September, but the actual date in the Shire calendar was Halimath 22; Tolkien tells us in Appendix D that he ""used our modern names"" for the months ""to avoid confusion, while the seasonal implications of our names are more or less the same"", so that Halimath is translated as"
"R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"". The Shire Country Park ranger office is located at Sarehole Mill. Tolkien and his brother spent their childhood in Birmingham with their widowed mother. They first lived in the hamlet of Sarehole, which Tolkien said were the happiest years of his youth. Sarehole is said to have been the model for The Shire, home to the hobbits. Every year the Tolkien Weekend is held at Sarehole Recreation Ground and Moseley Bog Local Nature Reserve part of the Shire Country Park. 2005 commemorated the 50th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the"
"the suffering of the people of Lake-town. However, at the Lonely Mountain, Bard discovers that Thorin Oakenshield, King under the Mountain, is very much alive, along with all his companions. Their response to Bard's claim is to barricade themselves inside the mountain, refusing to surrender any of the treasure under threat of war. To break the stalemate, Bilbo Baggins slips out of the mountain at night and offers the Arkenstone to Bard in order to put pressure on Thorin to make peace with the Elves and Men. However, Thorin is unwilling to share any of Smaug's treasure with an armed"
"Ring himself. The Council drove Sauron from Dol Guldur, unaware that he knew the Ring had been found. Just prior to Sauron's departure, the Ring passed to another hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who used it to assist in the victory of elves, men and dwarves at the Battle of the Five Armies. Sixty years later, Gollum was captured by orcs, and taken to Mordor, where he was tortured into revealing the owner and location of the Ring; Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. In the meantime, Bilbo had left the Shire to live in Rivendell, and upon the advice of Gandalf had"
"Bree, setting in motion the events recounted in ""The Hobbit"". Both were interested in the dragon Smaug at the Lonely Mountain. Together they planned the Quest of Erebor, which resulted in the death of Smaug and the finding of the One Ring by Bilbo Baggins. Directly west of Bree were the Barrow-downs and the Old Forest. Bree was the chief village of Bree-land, a small wooded region near the intersection of the main north-south and east-west routes through Eriador. Bree-land was the only place in Middle-earth where men and hobbits dwelt side by side. The hobbit community was older than"
"passed into their keeping, becoming known as the ""Red Book of Westmarch"". The Shire was first settled by Hobbits in the year 1601 of the Third Age (Year 1 in Shire Reckoning); they were led by the brothers Marcho and Blanco (modelled on Hengist and Horsa). The Hobbits (who originally lived in the vale of Anduin) had migrated west over the perilous Misty Mountains in the decades before that, and before entering the Shire they had lived in Dunland and parts of the depopulated Arnorian splinter-realms Cardolan and Rhudaur. It has been speculated that the Hobbits had originally moved west"
"Shire using corrupt Men and half-orcs, and had begun felling trees in a gratuitous programme of industrialization (which actually produces nothing except destruction and misery for the locals). The worst area was around the villages of Bywater and Hobbiton, leading the hobbits to realize that Mordor had come home to them. Merry, Pippin, Frodo and Sam make plans to set things right once more. With the help of the Cotton family, they lead an uprising of Hobbits and are victorious at the Battle of Bywater which effectively frees the Shire. At the very doorstep of Bag End, they meet Sharkey,"
"source for all proper authority in the Shire, and during Saruman's intervention in the Shire in , Thain Paladin II, aided by many Hobbits and particularly his Took clan, led armed opposition to Saruman's forces from his capital at Tuckborough. When Frodo Baggins left the Shire at the outset of ""The Lord of the Rings"" , the office of Thain had existed for 1,039 years. The first Thain, Bucca of the Marish, took office in ; he and his 11 successors of the Oldbuck family held the Thainship for 361 years. When Gorhendad Oldbuck led his family to settle Buckland"
"the mountain to a subterranean lake. Occasional goblins sought fish here for the Great Goblin. Gollum made his home on an island in this lake in about . During the quest to Erebor in , Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarves of Thorin Oakenshield were sheltering in the front porch when they were captured by soldiers of Goblin-town. The captives were brought before the Great Goblin, who accused them of spying, and was enraged to find out Thorin was carrying the sword Orcrist ""Orc-cleaver"". With the help of Gandalf, Bilbo and the Dwarves escaped and killed the Great Goblin, after which"
"of the race of Men. Elsewhere, Tolkien describes Hobbits as a ""variety"" or separate ""branch"" of humans. Within the story, hobbits and other races seem aware of the similarities (hence the colloquial terms ""Big People"" and ""Little People"" used in Bree). However, within the story, hobbits considered themselves a separate people. At the time of the events in ""The Lord of the Rings"", hobbits lived in the Shire and in Bree in the north west of Middle-earth, though by the end, some had moved out to the Tower Hills and to Gondor and Rohan. Tolkien believed he had invented the"
"the eastern shoulder of the Hill and on to Overhill. Bagshot Row led off the Hill Road at the foot of the Hill, and Bag End's front gate was near the crest of the road. Bilbo Baggins ran down along the Hill Road at the start of his adventure in ""The Hobbit"". In ""The Lord of the Rings"", when Frodo Baggins and his companions eventually returned home along the Hill Road, it was described as ""one of the saddest hours in their lives"". The author's visualization of the Hill Road is depicted in ""The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water"", one of the illustrations"