Bag End facts for kids
Bag End is a famous underground home for Hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy books, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It's where the main characters, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins, live. Both of them start their big adventures from Bag End and eventually return there.
Bag End is a safe, warm, and comfortable place. It's the complete opposite of the scary and dangerous places they visit on their journeys. Because both Bilbo and Frodo begin and end their quests at Bag End, it's a very important spot in their stories.
Tolkien himself said he was like a Hobbit, just bigger! Many experts believe Bag End shows what Tolkien thought was the perfect home. It also helps us understand the characters who live there. For the Lord of the Rings movies, director Peter Jackson built a detailed Hobbiton film set in New Zealand, including a real-life Bag End.
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What is Bag End Like?
How J. R. R. Tolkien Described It
The Hobbit starts with a very famous line:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
Bilbo and Frodo, the heroes of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, lived in Bag End. It was a very fancy Hobbit-hole, or "smial," dug into a place called The Hill. This hill was on the north side of Hobbiton, a town in the Shire.
Tolkien drew many pictures of Bag End and Hobbiton. His painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water shows what the outside looked like and the countryside around it. Tolkien made many sketches before deciding exactly where Bag End would be and how it would look.
Another drawing by Tolkien, The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Baggins Esquire, shows the inside of the house. It even has modern things like a wall clock and a barometer. A clock is also mentioned in The Hobbit.
How Peter Jackson Showed It
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Director Peter Jackson had a detailed Hobbiton film set built for his Lord of the Rings movies. It was made on a sheep farm in Matamata, New Zealand. The set included a water-mill, the Green Dragon Inn, and many Hobbit-holes, along with Bag End itself.
Jackson said that when he saw the set, "It felt as if you could open the circular green door of Bag End and find Bilbo Baggins inside." This shows how real and magical the set felt.
In the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the rough Dwarves burst into Bilbo's neat home. They clean out his pantry, which is a funny scene. It offers some lighthearted moments among the dangers of their adventure.
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In Spanish: Bolsón Cerrado para niños
