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Hobbit
Father Bungo Baggins / Mother Belladonna Took
Other Names: "Mad Baggins"
Notable Quotes:
"I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!"
"Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread."
"I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!"
"I got here without much adventure...and after a rest I went on with the dwarves to Dale...I shan’t travel again."
"I don’t suppose you will be able to keep a diary, Frodo my lad, but I shall expect a full account when you get back."
"I evidently came back by much too straight a road from my trip. I think Gandalf might have shown me round a bit."
Biography:
Head of the Baggins family, he dwelt alone at Bag End in Hobbiton, until Gandalf involved in the Quest of Erebor in April 2941 (Third Age), and so drew the Hobbits into the great affairs of the end of the Third Age.
During his journey to the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo came upon The One Ring in an orc-hold of the Misty Mountains. Bilbo's encounter with the creature, Gollum and the rest of his travels and his involvement with the Dragon Smaug, the Battle of the Five Armies and his travels with Gandalf and the dwarves (including Glóin, the father of Gimli, who would later factor into the War of the Ring) are recorded in the Red Book of Westmarch.
Bilbo returned from his journeys and eventually (reluctantly) passed the Ring on to his nephew and adopted heir, Frodo Baggins, who would later himself become a paramount factor in the War of the Ring.
At the end of the Third Age, Bilbo crossed over the sea with Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, Frodo and others and left Middle-Earth.
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