19 Facts About Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of JR R Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings, and the fictional narrator of many of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.

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

Protagonist of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is a hobbit in comfortable middle age.

Bilbo Baggins 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.

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Bilbo Baggins's journey continues via a lucky escape from wargs, goblins, and fire, to the house of Beorn the shapeshifter, through the black forest of Mirkwood, to Lake-town in the middle of Long Lake, and eventually to the Mountain itself.

Bilbo Baggins goes down to Smaug's lair again to steal some more, but the dragon is only half-asleep.

Bilbo Baggins has a riddling conversation with Smaug, and notices that the dragon's armour does indeed have a gap.

The Dwarves reclaim the Lonely Mountain, and horrify Bilbo Baggins by refusing to share the dragon's treasure with the lake-men or the wood-elves.

Bilbo Baggins finds the Arkenstone of Thrain, the most precious heirloom of Thorin's family, but hides it.

Bilbo Baggins tries to ransom the Arkenstone to prevent fighting, but Thorin sees his action as betrayal, and banishes Bilbo Baggins.

Bilbo Baggins accepts only a little of the treasure which was his share, though it still represents great wealth for a Shire hobbit.

Bilbo Baggins 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 Baggins tries to leave with the ring, but Gandalf persuades him to leave it behind for Frodo.

Two years later Bilbo Baggins accompanies Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, and Frodo to the Grey Havens, there to board ship bound for Tol Eressea across the sea.

The opposite of a bourgeois is a burglar who breaks into bourgeois houses, and in The Hobbit Bilbo is asked to become a burglar, Shippey writes, showing that the Bagginses and the Sackville-Bagginses are "connected opposites".

Bilbo Baggins observes that the name Sackville-Baggins, for the snobbish branch of the Baggins family, is "an anomaly in Middle-earth and a failure of tone".

Dorothy Matthews sees the story rather as a psychological journey, the anti-heroic Bilbo Baggins being willing to face challenges while firmly continuing to love home and discovering himself.

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