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Bungo Baggins

The builder of Bag End

""Every worm has his weak spot," as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience."
Bungo Baggins' son Bilbo
from The Hobbit 12
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The eldest of Mungo Baggins' five children, Bungo married into the Took family when he wed Belladonna, the eldest of the Old Took's three daughters. He thus acquired a part of the Took wealth, and with its help he set about creating a luxurious Hobbit-hole in Hobbiton Hill: Bag End.

Bungo and Belladonna had just one child, a son named Bilbo. Bungo brought up Bilbo with a hoard of useful sayings, several of which Bilbo quoted in the course of his adventures later in life1. In the year III 2916, Bungo's mother Laura died, and he became the official head of the Baggins clan, though not for long. A decade later Bungo himself passed away at the age of eighty, and Belladonna died just eight years later, leaving their son Bilbo as master of Bag End and head of the Baggins family.


Notes

1

Apart from Bungo's unaccountable advice on the killing of Dragons given above, his other quoted sayings were 'Third time pays for all' (The Hobbit 12) and 'While there's life there's hope!' (ibid 13).

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