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Bilbo Baggins
The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and Bilbo's Last Song character
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J. R. R. Tolkien's illustration of Bilbo in his comfortable hobbit-hole, Bag End
In-universe information
Race Hobbit
FamilyBelladonna Took (mother)
Bungo Baggins (father)
Gerontius "The Old" Took (grandfather)
Frodo Baggins (younger cousin)
HomeBag End, The Shire

Bilbo Baggins (Westron: Bilba Labingi) is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit , a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings , and the fictional narrator (along with Frodo Baggins) of many of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. The Hobbit is selected by the wizard Gandalf to help Thorin and his party of Dwarves reclaim their ancestral home and treasure, which has been seized by the dragon Smaug. Bilbo sets out in The Hobbit timid and comfort-loving and, through his adventures, grows to become a useful and resourceful member of the quest.

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Bilbo's way of life in the Shire, defined by features like the availability of tobacco and postal service, recalls that of the English middle class during the Victorian to Edwardian eras. This is not compatible with the much older world of Dwarves and Elves. Tolkien appears to have based Bilbo on the designer William Morris's travels in Iceland; Morris liked his home comforts but grew through his adventurous journeying. Bilbo's quest has been interpreted as a pilgrimage of grace, in which he grows in wisdom and virtue, and as a psychological journey towards wholeness.

Bilbo has appeared in numerous radio and film adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and video games based on them.

Appearances

The Hobbit

The protagonist of The Hobbit , Bilbo Baggins, is a hobbit in comfortable middle age. He is hired as a "burglar", despite his initial objections, on the recommendation of the wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves led by their king in exile, Thorin Oakenshield. The company of dwarves are on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasures from the dragon Smaug. [T 1] The adventure takes Bilbo and his companions through the wilderness, [T 2] to the elves haven, Rivendell, [T 3] across the Misty Mountains where, escaping from goblins, [T 4] he meets Gollum and acquires a magic ring. [T 5] His journey continues via a lucky escape from wargs, goblins, and fire, [T 6] to the house of Beorn the shapeshifter, [T 7] through the black forest of Mirkwood, [T 8] to Lake-town in the middle of Long Lake, [T 9] and eventually to the Mountain itself. [T 10]

As burglar, Bilbo is sent down the secret passage to the dragon's lair. He steals a golden cup and takes it back to the Dwarves. Smaug awakes and instantly notices the theft and a draught of cold air from the opened passage. He flies out, nearly catches the Dwarves outside the door, and eats their ponies. Bilbo and the Dwarves hide inside the passage. Bilbo goes down to Smaug's lair again to steal some more, but the dragon is now only half-asleep. Wearing his magic ring, Bilbo is invisible, but Smaug at once smells him. Bilbo has a riddling conversation with Smaug, and notices that the dragon's armour does indeed have a gap. He escapes the dragon's flames as he runs up the passage, and tells the Dwarves about the gap in Smaug's armour. An old thrush hears what he says, and flies off to tell Bard in Lake-town. [T 11]

Smaug realizes that Lake-town must have helped Bilbo, and flies off in a rage to destroy the town. The Dwarves and Bilbo hear that Smaug has been killed in the attack. The Dwarves reclaim the Lonely Mountain, and horrify Bilbo by refusing to share the dragon's treasure with the lake-men or the wood-elves. Bilbo finds the Arkenstone of Thrain, the most precious heirloom of Thorin's family, but hides it. Thorin calls his relative Dáin to bring an army of Dwarves. [T 12] Thorin and his dwarves fortify the entrance to the mountain hall, and are besieged by the Wood-elves and Lake-men. Bilbo tries to ransom the Arkenstone to prevent fighting, but Thorin sees his action as betrayal, and banishes Bilbo. Dain arrives, and the army of Dwarves faces off against the armies of Elves and Men. As battle is joined, a host of goblins and wargs arrive to take over the mountain, now that Smaug is dead. The armies of Elves, Men, and Dwarves, with the help of Eagles and Beorn, defeat the goblins and wargs. [T 13] Thorin is fatally wounded, but has time to make peace with Bilbo. Bilbo accepts only a little of the treasure which was his share, though it still represents great wealth for a Shire hobbit. Bilbo returns to his home in the Shire to find that several of his relatives, believing him to be dead, are trying to claim his home and possessions. [T 14]

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings begins with Bilbo's "eleventy-first" (111th) birthday, 60 years after the beginning of The Hobbit . The main character of the novel is Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's cousin, [lower-alpha 1] who celebrates his 33rd birthday and legally comes of age on the same day. Bilbo has kept the magic ring, with no idea of its significance, all that time; it has prolonged his life, leaving him feeling "thin and stretched". At the party, Bilbo tries to leave with the ring, but Gandalf persuades him to leave it behind for Frodo. [T 15] Bilbo travels to Rivendell and visits the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain before returning to retire at Rivendell and write books. [T 16] Gandalf discovers that Bilbo's magic ring is the One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, and sets in motion the quest to destroy it. [T 17] Frodo and his friends set off on the quest, finding Bilbo, now obviously old, but spry, in Rivendell. [T 16] When they have destroyed the Ring, they return to the Shire, via Rivendell, where Bilbo looks "very old, but peaceful, and sleepy". [T 18] [T 19] Two years later Bilbo accompanies Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, and Frodo to the Grey Havens, there to board ship bound for Tol Eressëa across the sea. [T 20]

Narrator

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, translator of various "works from the elvish", [T 21] and the author of the following poems and songs:

Interpretations

Name

Baggins vs Huggins: Tolkien invented the name Baggins, which sounded like a real English surname such as Huggins or Dickens, but was a Huddersfield dialect word meaning an extra meal. He used Huggins as a Troll's surname. Baggins vs Huggins.svg
Baggins vs Huggins: Tolkien invented the name Baggins, which sounded like a real English surname such as Huggins or Dickens, but was a Huddersfield dialect word meaning an extra meal. He used Huggins as a Troll's surname.

The philologist and Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey notes that "Baggins" is close to the spoken words bæggin, bægginz in the dialect of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. [5] where it means a substantial meal eaten between main meals, most particularly at teatime in the afternoon; and Mr Baggins is definitely, Shippey writes, "partial to ... his tea". [5] Tolkien worked in Yorkshire early in his career, at the University of Leeds; from 1920 he was a reader in the school of English studies, and he rose to become a full professor there. [6] More specifically, he wrote the foreword to Walter E. Haigh's 1928 A new glossary of the dialect of the Huddersfield district, which included these spoken words. [5] [6] [7]

In addition, "Baggins", while not a name by etymology, sounds very much like one of a class of English surnames such as Dickens, Jenkins, and Huggins. These names, Shippey notes, are formed from personal names, in the diminutive form; and Tolkien uses Huggins as the name of one of the Trolls in The Hobbit. [4]

Tolkien's choice of the surname Baggins may be connected to the name of Bilbo's house, Bag End, also the actual name of Tolkien's aunt's farmhouse, which Shippey notes was at the bottom of a lane with no exit. This is called a "cul-de-sac" [lower-alpha 2] in England; Shippey describes this as "a silly phrase", a piece of "French-oriented snobbery". [4]

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins's desire to acquire 'Bag End', Bilbo's hobbit-hole, has been compared to Vita Sackville-West's frustrated desire to inherit Knole House (pictured). Knole, Sevenoaks in Kent - March 2009.jpg
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins's desire to acquire 'Bag End', Bilbo's hobbit-hole, has been compared to Vita Sackville-West's frustrated desire to inherit Knole House (pictured).

Shippey observes that the socially aspiring Sackville-Bagginses have similarly attempted to "Frenchify" their family name, Sac[k]-ville = "Bag Town", as a mark of their bourgeois status. [4] The journalist Matthew Dennison, writing for St Martin's Press, calls Lobelia Sackville-Baggins "Tolken's unmistakable nod to Vita Sackville-West", an aristocratic novelist and gardening columnist as passionately attached to her family home, Knole House, which she was unable to inherit, as Lobelia was to Bag End. [9] The opposite of a bourgeois is a burglar who breaks into bourgeois houses, and in The Hobbit Bilbo is asked to become a burglar (of Smaug the dragon's lair), Shippey writes, showing that the Bagginses and the Sackville-Bagginses are "connected opposites". [4] He comments that the name Sackville-Baggins, for the snobbish branch of the Baggins family, [5] is "an anomaly in Middle-earth and a failure of tone". [10]

Period

Bilbo's distinctly anachronistic period, compared to the characters he meets, can be defined, Shippey notes, by the presence of tobacco, brought to Europe in 1559, and a postal service, introduced in England in 1840. [4] [lower-alpha 3] Like Tolkien himself, Bilbo was "English, middle class; and roughly Victorian to Edwardian", something that as Shippey observes, does not belong to the much older world of elves, dwarves, and wizards. [4]

Character

Bilbo's character and adventures match many details of William Morris's expedition in Iceland. Cartoon of Morris riding a pony by his travelling companion Edward Burne-Jones (1870) William Morris on Pony in Iceland 1870 cartoon by Edward Burne-Jones.jpg
Bilbo's character and adventures match many details of William Morris's expedition in Iceland. Cartoon of Morris riding a pony by his travelling companion Edward Burne-Jones (1870)

Marjorie Burns, a medievalist, writes that Bilbo's character and adventures match the fantasy writer and designer William Morris's account of his travels in Iceland in the early 1870s in numerous details. Like Bilbo's, Morris's party set off enjoyably into the wild on ponies. He meets a "boisterous" man called "Biorn the boaster" who lives in a hall beside Eyja-fell, and who tells Morris, tapping him on the belly, "... besides, you know you are so fat", just as Beorn pokes Bilbo "most disrespectfully" and compares him to a plump rabbit. Burns notes that Morris was "relatively short, a little rotund, and affectionately called 'Topsy', for his curly mop of hair", all somewhat hobbit-like characteristics. Further, she writes, "Morris in Iceland often chooses to place himself in a comic light and to exaggerate his own ineptitude", just as Morris's companion, the painter Edward Burne-Jones, gently teased his friend by depicting him as very fat in his Iceland cartoons. Burns suggests that these images "make excellent models" for the Bilbo who runs puffing to the Green Dragon inn or "jogs along behind Gandalf and the dwarves" on his quest. Another definite resemblance is the emphasis on home comforts: Morris enjoyed a pipe, a bath, and "regular, well-cooked meals"; Morris looked as out of place in Iceland as Bilbo did "over the Edge of the Wild"; both are afraid of dark caves; and both grow through their adventures. [11]

Quest

The Christian writer Joseph Pearce describes The Hobbit as "a pilgrimage of grace, in which its protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, becomes grown up ... in wisdom and virtue". [12] Dorothy Matthews sees the story rather as a psychological journey, the anti-heroic Bilbo being willing to face challenges while firmly continuing to love home and discovering himself. Along the way, Matthews sees Jungian archetypes, talismans, and symbols at every turn: the Jungian wise old man Gandalf; the devouring mother of the giant spider, not to mention Gollum's "long grasping fingers"; [13] the Jungian circle of the self, the ring; the escape from the dark underground imprisoning chambers of the wood-elves and Bilbo's symbolic rebirth into the sunlight and the waters of the woodland river; and the dragon guarding the contested treasure, itself "an archetype of the self, of psychic wholeness". [13] Later research has extended Matthews' analysis using alternative psychological frameworks such as Erik Erikson's theory of development. [14]

Genealogy

The Tolkien scholar Jason Fisher notes that Tolkien stated that hobbits were extremely "clannish" and had strong "predilections for genealogy". [15] Accordingly, Tolkien's decision to include the Baggins and other hobbit family trees in Lord of the Rings [T 25] gives the book, in Fisher's view, a strongly "hobbitish perspective". [15] The tree also, he notes, serves to show Bilbo's and Frodo's connections and familial characteristics, including that Bilbo was both "a Baggins and a Took". [15] Fisher observes that Bilbo is, like Aragorn: a "distillation of the best of two families"; he notes that in the game The Quest of Erebor, Gandalf is given the (non-Tolkien) lines "So naturally, thinking over the hobbits that I knew, I said to myself, 'I want a dash of the [adventurous] Took ... and I want a good foundation of the stolider sort, a Baggins perhaps.' That pointed at once to Bilbo". [15]

The Tolkien critic Tom Shippey notes that Tolkien was very interested in such names, describing Shire names at length in The Lord of the Rings "Appendix F". [T 26] One category was the names that meant nothing to the hobbits "in their daily language", like Bilbo and Bungo; a few of these, like Otho and Drogo in the family tree, were "by accident, the same as modern English names". [16]

Adaptations

The illustrations of Bilbo in the 1976 Russian translation of The Hobbit were based on the actor Yevgeny Leonov (shown here on a postage stamp). Russia-2001-stamp-Yevgeny Leonov.jpg
The illustrations of Bilbo in the 1976 Russian translation of The Hobbit were based on the actor Yevgeny Leonov (shown here on a postage stamp).

In the 1955–1956 BBC Radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings , Bilbo was played by Felix Felton. [18] In the 1968 BBC Radio serialization of The Hobbit , Bilbo was played by Paul Daneman. [19]

The 1969 parody Bored of the Rings [20] by "Harvard Lampoon" (i.e. its co-founders Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard) modifies the hobbit's name to "Dildo Bugger". [21]

In the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean. Bean also voiced both the aged Bilbo and Frodo in the same company's 1980 adaptation of The Return of the King . [22]

The 1976 Russian translation of The Hobbit was illustrated with drawings by Mikhail Belomlinsky; he based his Bilbo character on the actor Yevgeny Leonov, who he described as "good-natured, plump, with hairy legs". [17]

Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Young Bilbo.jpg
Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo was voiced by Norman Bird. [23] Billy Barty was the model for Bilbo in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping. [23] The 3000th story to be broadcast in the BBC's long-running children's programme Jackanory was The Hobbit, in 1979. Four narrators told the story with Bilbo's part being played by Bernard Cribbins. [24]

In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier. [25] In the unlicensed 1985 Soviet version on the Leningrad TV channel, Хоббита ("The Hobbit"), Bilbo was played by Mikhail Danilov  [ ru ]. [26] In the 1993 television miniseries Hobitit by Finnish broadcaster Yle, Bilbo is portrayed by Martti Suosalo. [19]

Ian Holm as an older Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo Baggins.jpg
Ian Holm as an older Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

In Peter Jackson's films The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003), Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier. [27]

Throughout the 2003 video game The Hobbit , the players control Bilbo, voiced by Michael Beattie. [28] The game follows the plot of the book, but adds the elements of platform gameplay and various side-objectives along the main quests. [29] In The Lord of the Rings Online (2007) Bilbo resides in Rivendell, mostly playing riddle games with the Elf Lindir in the Hall of Fire. [30]

In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, a prequel to The Lord of the Rings, the young Bilbo is portrayed by Martin Freeman [31] while Ian Holm reprises his role as an older Bilbo in An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). [32]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Although Frodo calls Bilbo his "uncle", they were in fact first and second cousins, once removed either way (Bilbo is Frodo's paternal great-great-uncle's son's son and his maternal great-aunt's son).
  2. ↑ The French words in this phrase mean "bottom-of-[a]-bag", "Bag End", but the French word for a street with no exit, Shippey observes, is impasse. [4] [8]
  3. ↑ The Annotated Hobbit notes also that Bilbo feels for matches (a 19th century invention) to light his pipe. [T 5]

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  1. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 1 "An Unexpected Party"
  2. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 2 "Roast Mutton"
  3. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 3 "A Short Rest"
  4. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 4 "Over Hill and Under Hill"
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  6. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 6 "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"
  7. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 7 "Queer Lodgings"
  8. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 8 "Flies and Spiders"
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  11. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 12 "Inside Information"
  12. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 15 "The Gathering of the Clouds"
  13. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 17 "The Clouds Burst"
  14. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 19 "The Last Stage"
  15. ↑ Tolkien 1954a , book 1, ch. 1 "A Long-expected Party"
  16. 1 2 Tolkien 1954a , book 2, ch. 2 "Many Meetings"
  17. ↑ Tolkien 1954a , book 1, ch. 2 " The Shadow of the Past "
  18. ↑ Tolkien 1955 , book 6, ch. 6 "Many Partings"
  19. ↑ Tolkien 1955 , book 6, ch. 8 " The Scouring of the Shire "
  20. ↑ Tolkien 1954a , Prologue, "Of the Ordering of the Shire"
  21. ↑ Tolkien 1955 , "Appendix A – Annals of the Kings and Rulers"
  22. ↑ Tolkien 1954a , book 1, ch. 3 "Three is Company"
  23. ↑ Sung by Frodo but said to have been created by Bilbo.Tolkien 1937 , book 1, ch. 9 "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
  24. ↑ Tolkien 1937 , ch. 19 "The Last Stage"
  25. ↑ Tolkien 1955 , "Appendix C – Baggins of Hobbiton "
  26. ↑ Tolkien 1955 , "Appendix F", 2, "On Translation"

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