The Lord of the Rings · Location
Bag End
Also known as Bag End hole
- house
- hobbit-smial, round doors/windows, turf-covered
Bag End is a desirable and beautiful hobbit-hole dug into the Hill featuring a round front door, round windows set in turf walls with red and golden flowers trailing and peeping in. The garden has a lawn, long sloping path, hedge and gate. Inside are comfortable interconnected rooms including a hall, west-facing study with hearth, and dining-room, lit by sun or fire but growing dark with shadows at sunset.
- Type
- house
- Style
- hobbit-smial, round doors/windows, turf-covered
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 2
- Books
- 2
Bag End begins as the quintessential comfortable hobbit-hole in the Hill, its round door and flower-framed windows embodying the domestic peace of the Shire. After the Fellowship departs, the once-pristine residence is stripped bare and occupied by the ruffians of Sharkey, its rooms left cold and empty. By the end of the War of the Ring, the hobbit-hole is lovingly restored, its furniture returned and its hearth rekindled, symbolizing the resilience of home and the healing of the Shire.
History
BOOK 1The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings
Bag End is a desirable and beautiful hobbit-hole dug into the Hill featuring a round front door, round windows set in turf walls with red and golden flowers trailing and peeping in. The garden has a lawn, long sloping path, hedge and gate. Inside are comfortable interconnected rooms including a hall, west-facing study with hearth, and dining-room, lit by sun or fire but growing dark with shadows at sunset.
BOOK 3The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
The hobbit-hole at Hobbiton, later restored with its old furniture and gear so that it looks much as it always had. Yellow light and a fire again fill the familiar rooms.
Key events
- Book 1
Ch. 4Bilbo's Farewell PartyBilbo Baggins hosts his eleventy-first birthday party in Hobbiton, sharing it with Frodo's coming of age. After a magnificent feast and fireworks, he delivers a cryptic speech and vanishes using the Ring, departing the Shire permanently with dwarves. - Book 1
Ch. 5Gandalf Reveals the Ring's True NatureAfter seventeen years, Gandalf returns to Bag End and reveals that Bilbo's ring is the One Ring of Sauron. He recounts its history from Isildur through Gollum to Bilbo, explaining its corrupting power and the need to destroy it in Mount Doom. - Book 3
Ch. 19The Battle of BywaterThe hobbits return to find the Shire under ruffian control led by 'Sharkey' (Saruman). Merry and Pippin rally the hobbits; at the Battle of Bywater, they defeat the occupying Men. Saruman is killed by Wormtongue at Bag End's door.
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