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  Bilbo Baggins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bilbo Baggins is the central character in the J.
According to the Appendices of the Lord of the Rings, Bilbo was born on September 22, 2890 of the Third Age, son of Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took.
Bilbo was the Ring-bearer for many decades with no idea of its significance, and it prolonged his life beyond normal limits and slowed his aging.
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 Baggins family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were seen as respectable (indeed, as more respectable than the aristocratic Tooks) until Bilbo Baggins set out on the quest for Erebor with Gandalf the Grey and thirteen Dwarves: when he returned he was seen as odd or queer, but also extremely rich.
The Baggins clan traces their origin to the first recorded Baggins, one Balbo Baggins, who was born in or near Hobbiton in 1167 of the Shire reckoning (2767 Third Age).
Bilbo is a great-grandson of Balbo, as was Frodo's father Drogo.
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 Bilbo Baggins - The Lord of the Rings Wiki
Bilbo Baggins was a notable Hobbit of the Shire.
Bilbo was also the first of the ring-bearers to voluntarily give up the One Ring, although he found that act extremely difficult to do.
Bilbo Baggins was born on 22 September 2890 T.A. Third Age).
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 Baggins Family
Drogo Baggins was born in 2908 to Fosco Baggins and Ruby Bolger Baggins.
Laura Baggins died in 2916 at the age of 102 and was succeeded by her eldest son Bungo, father of Bilbo.
When Bilbo left the Shire in 3001, Lobelia was angered to discover that she had only been left a set of spoons and tried to sneak several other valuable items out of Bag End in her umbrella.
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 Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins had settled into a comfortable life in the Shire when thirteen Dwarves and one Wizard showed up on his doorstep and whisked him off on an adventure.
Bilbo was reluctant at first, but his adventurous spirit was awakened and he used his quick wits to help his companions out of a number of tight situations.
Bilbo escapes and is reunited with Gandalf and the Dwarves.
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 Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins, hobbit of the Shire, was born in TA 2890.
Bilbo Baggins was the key figure of the journey.
Bilbo Baggins went down in history of the Shire as a long-liver for he lived as long as 131 years and 8 days.
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 TheOneRing.net™ | Movies | Characters | Bilbo
Biography: Bilbo's involvement with the tale begins with Gandalf's goading his acceptance into Thorin Oakenshield's party on their quest to destroy the dragon, Smaug, at his lair in Lonely Mountain.
Unknown to Bilbo, this ring belonged to Gollum, a filthy slimy creature who lived on the small underground lake, in the center of the cave.
Bilbo returned home after his quest, and did not do anything especially important to the tale until his 111th birthday, upon which he had an enormous party.
www.theonering.net /movie/char/bilbo.html   (350 words)

  
 Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo, growing quite bored of the white city, decides to write something in his journal to pass a few moments.
Bilbo has arrived in Minas Tirith, finding quite the surprise when he ran into Gandalf and learned that Frodo may be in the city.
Baggins then turned and began to walk, leaving only a note in his room for Elrond and taking one of those elvish songs in his heart for the road.
thehobbit.greatestjournal.com   (653 words)

  
 Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins lived alone for years at Bag End, in his comfortable Hobbit Hole that had been left to him by his mum and dad.
Bilbo's mother was a real blue-blood, Miss Belladonna Took. ; My Gaffer always said she was the most beautifulest Hobbit in the Shire, and he should know.  She was friends with Mr.Gandalf long afore the rest of us was even born.
Frodo Baggins, who would be the one destined to carry the Ring across Middle Earth on a quest to destroy the Ring. ; That was a hard task for Mr.Frodo, but it was actually old Mr.
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 The Lord of the Rings - Bilbo Baggins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo found the One Ring when he accompanied the company of Thorin II Oakenshield over the Misty Mountains to retake Erebor from the great dragon Smaug the Golden in the year 2941.
Bilbo had spent the intervening years researching the vast store of knowledge in Elrond's house, and became a poet and scholar, as well as resting some of the hurt that bearing the Ring had done to his soul.
Bilbo's resistance to the Ring seems to have been greater than Frodo's, as he bore it for sixty years and rarely gave in to it.
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 Love and Armour - Bilbo Baggins / Bilbon Sacquet
Born in the year 2890 of the Third Age, Bilbo was a bachelor, who was chosen by Gandalf to make up the lucky number for the Quest for Smaug's treasure in 2941.
After he disappeared, Bilbo traveled to Dale, and saw the changes the Dwarves had made, and then back to Rivendell where he stayed until after the War of the Ring when he sailed into the West with the Keepers of the Three Rings and Frodo, the other Ringbearer.
Bilbo wrote the early parts of the Lord of the Rings, which shows in the early tone of the tale.
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 mc1- Bilbo Baggins & Gollum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
He accompanied Thorin and co. on their quest to slay the Dragon Smaug and regain the ancient kingdom under the mountain, and en-route chanced to find the One Ring of Sauron, which had been lost to the world for centuries.
Bilbo was blessed with a good deal of common sense and a great good luck, which never deserted him.
The effects of his troglodyte existence and the corrupting power of the ring itself, gradually changed his appearance, turning him into a wretched slimy creature, animated only by his obsession with the powerful talisman.
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 Lord of the Rings Characters: Bilbo Baggins
While Bilbo Baggins does not play a large role in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, he does have an extremely important role in The Hobbit and is the one who found The One Ring in the dark dwelling of Gollum's Lair located in the Misty Mountains.
Bilbo percieves the ring to just be a magical ring giving him the ability to disappear.
During his quest not only does he find The One Ring, but he is given the sword Sting from plunder in a troll cave, and he is also given a coat of Mithril from Thorin.
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 myprecious.co.uk
Head of the Baggins family, he dwelt alone at Bag End, Hobbiton, until Gandalf involved him in the Quest of Erebor in 2941 (Third Age), and so drew the Hobbits into the great affairs of the end of the Third Age.
Bilbo's records of his travels, and those of his heir Frodo, were compiled into the Red Book of Westmarch, and became the basis of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
More than a hundred and fifty years before Gandalf disturbed Bilbo in his garden that spring morning, the dragon Smaug had descended in flame on Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, an ancient kingdom of the Dwarves far to the east of the Shire.
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 Bilbo Baggins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, lived in The Hill at Bag-End.
Bilbo was quite content living in his hobbithole in The Hill, when the wizard Gandalf visited him.
Bilbo was fleeing from the creature who wanted Bilbo for lunch.
members.aol.com /gymnastaim/Bilbo.html   (422 words)

  
 Middle-earth Quiz Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
He was crawling through the dark goblin tunnels and his hand came upon it.
Bilbo felt much fiercer and bolder after doing something all by himself.
Bilbo didn’t want any of the treasure of Thorin but finally agreed to take something.
tolkien.scoon.com /bilbo.htm   (223 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Frodo Baggins
Although Bilbo often referred to Frodo as his 'favourite nephew', he was in fact his first cousin once removed (through his mother), and also his second cousin once removed (through his father).
It was said that he would meet with Elves in the woods, for example, and Bilbo allowed him to read his diary of the journey to Erebor.
In 3001, Bilbo held the great Birthday Party on 22 September (a birthday Frodo happened to share) and afterwards departed from the Shire, leaving Frodo to come into his inheritance, including (after much persuasion by Gandalf) the Ring.
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 Riddles in the Dark
Bilbo could not see him, but Gollum was watching him now from the distance, with his pale eyes like telescopes.
Bilbo was sitting on the water’s brink, at the end of his way and his wits, when up paddled Gollum, his eyes glowing softly in the dark.
NARRATOR 1: Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard of, but not one of them had done all these things.
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 Tea at Bag-end
THE BAGGINS clan, an old and respected family of Middle-earth Hobbits, live in the Shire, and around the Hobbiton region of the Westfarthing.
The Baggins family had always been prominent in the Shire, and gave rise to the two most important Hobbits of the Third Age, Bilbo the Ring-finder and Frodo the Ring-bearer.
The history of Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo, reads like a mirror of human fantasy, not withstanding the 'simple life' wholly appreciated by Tolkien.
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 The Hobbit (Lord of the Rings trilogy) | SUPER READERS Book Review
Bilbo and a crew of a few dwarfs set off and search for the treasure that lies at the feet of Smaug the Dragon on the Lonely Mountain.
The Hobbit is about a young hobbit named, Bilbo Baggins, who wants to live a peaceful life in his cozy hobbit-hole, but some unexpected guests show up one day and he gets wound up in the adventure of his life.
Bilbo meets creatures that are both evil and friendly, and ones he had never even dreamed about.
www.ga.k12.pa.us /Academics/LS/superreader/title/H/hobbit.htm   (877 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo's father Bungo died in 2926, and his mother Belladonna in 2934, after which Bilbo lived alone at Bag End for seven years until a fateful morning in the spring of 2941, when his pleasant, uneventful life was disturbed by the arrival of Gandalf.
He chose Bilbo largely because of his Took inheritance, but he later suggested that Bilbo might in some sense have been 'fated' to go on the Quest.
2941, Gandalf returned to Bilbo's house with Thorin and his twelve companions, and the Quest of Erebor was begun.
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 Bilbo Baggins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo pinched himself and slapped himself; he gripped on his little sword; he even felt in his pocket with his other hand.
Bilbo Baggins was discussed in Hobbiton, and indeed all over the Shire, for a year and a day, and was remembered much longer than that.
It became a fireside-story for young hobbits; and eventually Mad Baggins, who used to vanish with a bang and a flash and reappear with bags of jewels and gold, became a favourite character of legend and lived on long after the true events were forgotten.
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 Memorable Quotes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo: 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.
Bilbo: I am sorry that I have brought this upon you, my boy.
Bilbo: Of course he does, he's a Baggins, not some blockheaded Bracegirdle from Hardbottle.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo and Thorin & Co. had a nasty surprise in the cave.
When Bilbo awoke after falling off of Dori’s shoulders when the goblins grabbed Dori, what was strange about his surroundings?
Why did the dwarves have a better opinion of Bilbo Baggins when he rejoined them after his adventures with Gollum and the goblins?
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 SpenceMusic - Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins' version was recorded around the same time.
Unlike Bilbo Baggins all tracks were now written by Brian Spence alone.
In August 2005 Brian met up with three of the former members of Bilbo Baggins in Edinburgh.
www.spencemusic.co.uk /bilbo.html   (622 words)

  
 Natse Tolkieno - Tolkiens nett - www.tolkiens.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Bilbo: So there I was, at the mercy of three monstrous trolls.
You'll have to leave the name of Baggins behind you, for that name is not safe outside the Shire.
The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of the Ring.
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