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Dates
Excavated in approximately III 28901
Location
Underhill, Hobbiton in the Shire
Race
Hobbits
Culture
Shire-hobbits
Family
Baggins

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  • Updated 31 January 1998
  • Updates planned: 13

Bag End

The great smial beneath Hobbiton Hill

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A large and comfortable hobbit-hole, well-known as the home of Bilbo Baggins and his heir, Frodo. Its round green door opened into a large, well-appointed hobbit-hole that took up much of the Hill above Hobbiton. In the tradition of hobbit-holes, all the rooms at Bag End were on the same level, and there were many of these; '...bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes ([Bilbo] had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms...'2.


Notes

1

The exact date that Bag End came into existence is unknown, but we do know that it was excavated by Bilbo Baggins' father Bungo, after he had married Belladonna Took: 'Bungo, that was Bilbo's father, built the most luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her money)...'. The latest possible date for the building of Bag End is III 2926, the year of Bungo's death, but the context of the text quoted here seems to suggest that Bungo built it rather earlier than this.

2

from The Hobbit, Chapter 1, An Unexpected Party.

See also...

Adelard Took, Bagshot Row, Balin, Bilbo Baggins, Boffin Family, Bungo Baggins, Burrowes Family, Burrows Family, Bywater Road, Daddy Twofoot, Farewell Party, First Eastfarthing Troop, Frodo Baggins, Gaffer Gamgee, Green Hill Country, [See the full list...]

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