| Character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium | |
| Name | Bilbo Baggins |
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| Other names | Multiple, see below |
| Titles | Ring-bearer, Elf-friend |
| Race | Hobbit |
| Culture | Shire-hobbit, Baggins family |
| Date of birth | September 22, T.A. 2890 |
| Date of departure to Aman | September 29, T.A. 3021 |
| Date of death | F.A. ? |
| Realm | Eriador |
| Book(s) | The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings Unfinished Tales |
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of The Hobbit and a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, two of the most well-known of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings. Tolkien's Legendarium (ISBN 0-313-30530-7 is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F A title is a prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration an official position or a professional or academic qualification This is a list of all animals that appear in J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth legendarium In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium, Hobbits are a diminutive race that inhabit the lands of Middle-earth. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic The Shire is a region of J R R Tolkien 's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works In J R R Tolkien 's Fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Baggins family is known to be a remarkable and rich Hobbit family Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians The Third Age is a time period from J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth fantasy writings Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. The Third Age is a time period from J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth fantasy writings The Fourth Age and the later ages that followed it are time periods from J This is a list of the known realms of Arda in J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium. Eriador (the "Lone Lands" is a large region in J R R Tolkien 's fictional world of Middle-earth. The Hobbit or There and Back Again is an award-winning fantasy The Lord of the Rings is an epic Unfinished Tales (full title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) is a collection of stories and essays by J The Hobbit or There and Back Again is an award-winning fantasy The Lord of the Rings is an epic Tolkien's Legendarium (ISBN 0-313-30530-7 is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F The story of The Hobbit featuring Bilbo is also retold from a different perspective in the Chapter The Quest of Erebor in The Book of Unfinished Tales,
In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are 'really' translations from the fictitious volume of The Red Book of Westmarch, Bilbo is the author of The Hobbit and translator of The Silmarillion.
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Appearances
The Hobbit
The Hobbit relates how Bilbo (in comfortable middle age at 50 years old), in spite of himself, is hired as a burglar, by Gandalf and 13 dwarves led by their exiled king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug. Concept and creation Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a Postcard entitled Der Berggeist ("the mountain Characteristics Thorin is described as being very haughty stern and officious In J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth Legendarium, the Lonely Mountain ( Sindarin Erebor) is a Mountain in the northeast Smaug is a fictional dragon character in The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien. His adventure takes Bilbo through the wilderness, to the haven of Rivendell, through the black forest of Mirkwood, and a lake-community, eventually reaching the Mountain. Here, after the mountain has been reclaimed, the Battle of Five Armies takes place.
In his journey, Bilbo encounters other fantastic creatures like trolls, elves, giant spiders, a man who can change into a bear, and a mysterious, murderous creature named Gollum. In J R R Tolkien 's world of Middle-earth, Trolls are very large (twelve feet tall or more humanoids of great strength and poor intellect In J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium, an Elf is an individual member of one of the races that inhabit the lands of Arda. This is a list of all animals that appear in J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth legendarium Appearances Literature He lived with his animals (horses dogs and ponies among others in a wooden house between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood In Gollum's underground lair, Bilbo finds a magic ring of invisibility, which he uses to escape from Gollum after winning a riddle competition.
While Bilbo initially is a mild-mannered, easygoing bumbler, he grows confident and wiser as the story progresses. He rescues the dwarves from giant spiders with a short sword he acquired and his magic ring. He also uses his ring to sneak about hostile areas like the Wood-elves' stronghold; he later uses his wits to break the dwarves out of the elves' prisons. He is able to hold his own in conversation with the wily Smaug. When tensions arise regarding the ownership of the recovered treasure he unsuccessfully tries to get the opposing sides to bargain, using a stolen heirloom jewel as leverage. Though this strains his relationship with Thorin they later part as friends. Bilbo also impresses leaders of men and elves, as well as Gandalf, who knew there was more to him than it seemed.
At the end of his adventure, Bilbo becomes even wealthier from his share of the treasure. Upon his reappearance, he loses his and his family's respectability among his neighbours.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings begins with Bilbo's "eleventy-first" (111th) birthday, 60 years after The Hobbit. The main protagonist of the novel is Frodo Baggins, Bilbo's kinsman.
In 2989 (SR 1389), Bilbo, a lifelong bachelor, adopted Frodo, the orphaned son of his first cousin Primula Brandybuck and his second cousin Drogo Baggins, and made him his heir. Though Frodo was actually "his first and second cousin once removed either way",[1] the two regarded each other as uncle and nephew. cousin in Kinship terminology is a relative with whom one shares a common Ancestor, but in modern usage the term is rarely used when referring to a
All this time Bilbo had kept his magic ring, with no idea of its significance. He had mostly used the ring to hide from his obnoxious cousins, the Sackville-Bagginses, when they came to visit. In J R R Tolkien 's Fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Baggins family is known to be a remarkable and rich Hobbit family Gandalf's investigations reveal it to be a Ring of Power, the very Master-Ring, or One Ring, forged by the Dark Lord Sauron to corrupt and dominate the bearers of the other Rings, and by extension their races. The Rings of Power are fictional artifacts of J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth Legendarium. Sauron (ˈsaʊrɒn Quenya: /sawrɔn/ literal meaning "Abhorred") is the title character and the principal Antagonist of the Fantasy
The Ring had prolonged his life beyond normal hobbit limits, and at 111 he still looked 50. While the Ring didn't initially corrupt him as it had its previous owners, it did have some negative effects upon him; over the years, he began to obsess over it, losing sleep and feeling "stretched out and thin"[2], as he says to Gandalf, when he was out of its sight.
On the night of his birthday party, he reacts with panic and suspicion when Gandalf tries to persuade him to leave the Ring behind with Frodo along with his other belongings. Bilbo refers to the Ring as his "precious" — the same name the wretched Gollum gives it in The Hobbit. Gandalf loses his temper with his old friend, putting some sense into him. Bilbo then admits he would have liked to be rid of it, and leaves it behind, becoming the first person to do so voluntarily.
Bilbo leaves the Shire that night, leaving the Ring and all the rest of his estate, including his home, Bag End in Hobbiton, to Frodo. The Shire is a region of J R R Tolkien 's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works He puts on the Ring and vanishes from sight at his own birthday party, and is never seen in Hobbiton again.
This, coupled with his (for a hobbit) eccentric doings and a flash that Gandalf, in on the joke, sets off at the moment of his disappearance, leads to him being immortalized in hobbit folklore as "Mad Baggins", who disappears with a flash and a bang and returns with gold and jewels.
Bilbo travels to Rivendell, where he lives a very pleasant life of retirement: eating, sleeping, writing poetry, and working on his memoir, There and Back Again, known to us as The Hobbit. Rivendell ( Sindarin: Imladris) is an Elven outpost in Middle-earth, a Fictional realm created by J Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely The Hobbit or There and Back Again is an award-winning fantasy He also wrote a book called Translations from the Elvish, which formed the basis of what is known to us as The Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is a collection of J R R Tolkien 's mythopoeic works edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in
At the end of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo accompanies Frodo, Gandalf, Elrond, and Galadriel to the Grey Havens, there to take ship for Tol Eressëa across the sea, on September 29, 3021. Character overview Elrond was Lord of Rivendell, one of the mighty rulers of old that remained in Middle-earth in its Third Age. Appearances Literature Stories of Galadriel's life prior to The Lord of the Rings are collected in the Unfinished Tales. The Elven ports of Mithlond or the Grey Havens was an Elvish port on the Gulf of Lune in the northwest of J In early versions of J R R Tolkien 's Legendarium (see The History of Middle-earth) Tol Eressëa was an island visited by the Anglo-Saxon Events 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. He had already celebrated his 131st birthday, becoming the oldest living Hobbit ever in Middle-earth.
The Appendices
According to the Appendices of the Lord of the Rings, Bilbo was born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took on September 22, 2890, or SR (Shire Reckoning) 1290, of the Third Age of Middle-earth. In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians The Third Age is a time period from J R R Tolkien 's Middle-earth fantasy writings The Bagginses of Bag-End were one of the oldest, wealthiest, and respectable hobbit families in Hobbiton until the year 2941 (SR 1341), when Bilbo inexplicably disappeared and was thought dead. In J R R Tolkien 's Fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Baggins family is known to be a remarkable and rich Hobbit family He had in fact, gone on an "adventure" arranged by the Wizard Gandalf the Grey.
Posthumously Published
The poem "Bilbo's Last Song", illustrated by Pauline Baynes was published after Tolkien's death. Bilbo's Last Song is a poem by J R R Tolkien. It was given by Tolkien as a gift to his secretary Joy Hill in 1966. Pauline Baynes ( September 9, 1922 - August 1, 2008) was an English book illustrator whose work encompassed more than 100 books notably
Names and titles
In The Hobbit Bilbo calls himself "Ring-Finder", "Ring-Winner", "Luck-Wearer", "Lucky Number", "Stinging Fly", and "Barrel-Rider" in front of Smaug, who is pleased by the riddling.
He is later dubbed "Ring-bearer", and Elf-friend
Going by the conceit that Tolkien's books were translated from the Red Book of Westmarch, his true name in Westron was Bilba Labingi. Aside from its common usage signifying "excessive pride" in literary terms a conceit is an Extended metaphor with a complex Logic that governs The Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes Red Book of the Periannath, and The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings, also known as the Thain's Book after its principal Westron, or the Common Speech, is an Artificial language developed by J Labingi is related to the Westron laban, bag.
Portrayals in adaptations
In the 1966 BBC Radio serialization of The Hobbit, Bilbo was played by Paul Daneman. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light.
Nicol Williamson portrayed Bilbo with a light West Country accent in the 1974 performance released on Argo Records. Nicol Williamson (born 14 September 1938) is a Scottish Actor who was described by English Playwright John Osborne The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region [3]
In the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean. The year 1977 in film involved some significant events Events In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway Rankin/Bass Productions Inc (formerly Videocraft International Ltd J R R Tolkien 's The Hobbit was adapted into an animated Television movie by Rankin/Bass Productions in 1977 Orson Bean (born Dallas Frederick Burrows July 22, 1928) is an American Film, Television, and stage Bean also voiced both the aged Bilbo and Frodo in the same company's 1980 adaptation of The Return of the King. The year 1980 in film involved some significant events Events April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film McVicar, opens The Return of the King is an animated adaptation of the novel by J
In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo was voiced by Norman Bird. Ralph Bakshi (born October 29 1938 is an American director of animated and occasionally live-action films The year 1978 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 animated Fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. Billy Barty was the model for Bilbo, as well as Frodo and Sam, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping. Billy Barty ( October 25, 1924 – December 23, 2000) born William John Bertanzetti, was an American Film Actor Samwise Gamgee, later known as Samwise Gardner and commonly known as Sam, is a Fictional character in J Rotoscoping is an Animation technique in which Animators trace over live-action film movement frame by frame for use in Animated films Originally
In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 In 1981 the UK radio station BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatisation of J John Le Mesurier (born John Charles Elton Le Mesurier De Somerys Halliley; 5 April 1912 &ndash 15 November 1983 was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor
In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier. Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961 is a three-time Academy Award -winning New Zealand director producer and writer best known for directing The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 Fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the similarly titled first The year 2001 in film involved some significant events (For more about non-English films check sources in those languages This article is about the live-action movie which shares a title with a book, video game, and animated film. The year 2003 in film involved some significant events Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings The Return Sir Ian Holm CBE (born 12 September, 1931) is an English award-winning Actor known for his stage work and for many film roles
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Appearances in popular culture
In 1968, Leonard Nimoy released a record, "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy," which contained the song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. In J R R Tolkien 's legendarium Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and " The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins " is a Song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo "
In 2006, The TV Show Class of 3000 came out. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Class of 3000 was an American Emmy Award -winning comedy Animated television series on Cartoon Network that was created executive produced In one episode the class is looking for Sunny's home. While looking in a deep forest the main character Li'l D bumps into an invisible thing which turns out to be Bilbo Baggins with the stolen ring from Gollum on. Class of 3000 was an American Emmy Award -winning comedy Animated television series on Cartoon Network that was created executive produced Character overview Originally known as Sméagol, this character was later named Gollum after his habit Philly Phil acknowledges him, but no one listens. Class of 3000 was an American Emmy Award -winning comedy Animated television series on Cartoon Network that was created executive produced There were also other mentions of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in the episode.
In the episode of the TV show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, one of the many crossed out spellings of a new student's name (Bolbi) was Bilbo, an apparent reference to Bilbo Baggins. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius (often shortened to just Jimmy Neutron is an American Animated television series, and Spin-off of
In an episode of Mind of Mencia in which the main character plays an Indian electronic store clerk, right before he badmouths a nerd, he says "Oh Mighty Krishna, please look the other way while I verbally kick Bilbo in the Baggins. Mind of Mencia is an American Television Comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari kṛṣṇa in IAST, ˈkr̩ʂɳə in classical Sanskrit is a deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism "
In a Simpsons episode Principal Skinner is blackmailed with peanutes to suckle a Bilbo Baggins action figure in the Comic book store window.
References
- ^ J. R. R. Tolkien (April 1, 1987), The Fellowship of the Ring, vol. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J 1, The Lord of the Rings, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, "A Long-expected Party", ISBN 0-395-08254-4
- ^ The Fellowship of the Ring, book I, Chapter 2: "The Shadow of the Past". The Lord of the Rings is an epic Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States.
- ^ Nicol Williamson on IMDB
External links
- Bilbo Baggins at the Tolkien Gateway
- Bilbo Baggins at the Internet Movie Database
- For an alternate, fuller, version of Bilbo's family tree see Rodovid Engine.
- A brief character study of Bilbo Baggins
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