Lotho Sackville-Baggins

Lotho Sackville-Baggins was a Hobbit of the Shire, hailing from the Sackville-Baggins family.
Lotho had a poor facial complexion for which he was called the "Little Pimple" or "Pimple".
==Biography==
Lotho was born in the year SR 1364 to Otho Sackville-Baggins and his wife Lobelia. He, like the rest of his family, was very unpopular and generally disliked in the Shire. Like his father and mother, he had always desired Bag End for himself - in the year SR 1418 of Shire Reckoning he had already waited sixty-two years for the inheritance, but was foiled when Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins was bestowed the home.
In TA 3012, after Otho had passed away, Lotho came to be considered a wealthy Hobbit through inheriting his father's pipe-weed plantations in the Southfarthing.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Ch. VIII: "The Scouring of the Shire"
In TA 3016 or TA 3017, Lotho began to quietly sell away the best Pipe-weed to Men, using great wagons at Sarn Ford, in exchange for money. Most of these Men were Ruffians in the employ of Saruman. Using this money, Lotho began buying up an excessive amount of property including inns, farms, malt-houses, leaf-plantations, and mills, supposedly including the Old Mill; while he kept his activities a secret, rumors of them inevitably spread throughout the Shire.
In TA 3018, after Frodo sold Bag End to the Sackville-Baggins, Lotho arrived at Bag End with his mother after lunch on September 23 to inspect their new home.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One, Ch. III: "Three is Company" A short time after moving into Bag End, Lotho had the Old Mill torn down, hiring outsiders to build a New Mill, bigger than the old one, in addition to other mills under the guise of grinding corn faster. By December, Lotho's trades with outsiders began to include things beyond just Pipe-weed. As a consequence, things began to become scarce as winter came and people started getting angry. To appease them, Lotho came up with an answer to their struggles; he invited some Ruffians among his buyers to stay in the Shire to assert his dominance. Initially, those harmed by the activities of the Ruffians were compensated by Lotho, but soon enough Lotho could not keep up with the Ruffions. After Will Whitfoot, the Mayor of the Shire, decided to journey to Bag End to confront him in protest, Lotho sent his Men to imprison him in the Lockholes.
Not that long within the New Year, Lotho declared himself as the Chief Shirriff, calling himself the Chief. With the aid of Sharkey's Men under his command, the Shire became a totalitarian regime. Lotho restricted the inns to the Ruffians, made a new version of The Rules, and sent his Men to gather goods "for fair distribution". While anyone who disagreed with him was sent to the Lockholes, there was resistance to his rule. Fredegar Bolger led a band of rebels in the Brockenbores near the Hills of Scary, though Lotho's Men smoked them out, sending them to the Lockholes.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six: "The Grey Havens" In Tookland, Paladin II Took also resisted and the Tooks hunted any Ruffian Lotho sent there.
Eventually however, Lotho's regime came to an end on September 22The Chronology of The Lord of the Rings, pg. 84 when he was stripped of his power after Saruman came to Bag End under the alias of Sharkey. Lotho was stabbed in his sleep by Gríma at the behest of Saruman (who suggests Gríma may have eaten him as well). Publicly, Lotho simply disappeared from the public eye and his mother was taken to the Lockholes.
==Etymology==
Lotho is a representation of Lotha in the Shire-speech variant of Hobbit-speech, though it carried no contemporary meaning.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Appendix F", "On Translation"
==Other versions==
Originally, Lotho's name was Cosimo within early drafts. In one variant of a draft, he fought Sancho Proudfoot at Bag End being supported by his mother, Lobelia, who broke her umbrella upon Sancho's head.The Return of the Shadow, "The Second Phase: XVI. Delays are Dangerous", pg. 276, 283 (Note 5) Christopher Tolkien stated in a note to this draft that in these variants, Lotho had an overshadowed wife named Miranda, though the character was removed in the very next draft.The Return of the Shadow, "The Third Phase (1): XIX The Journey to Bree", p. 324 In a separate draft, Cosimo's epithet was sandy-haired.The Treason of Isengard, "II. The Fourth Phase (1): From Hobbiton to Bree", p. 32
In an outline sketching out the Scouring of the Shire, Cosimo industrialized the Shire with factories and smoke on his own without Saruman's aid.The Treason of Isengard, "II. The Fourth Phase (1): From Hobbiton to Bree", p. 216 (Note 7) In an early version of The Mirror of Galadriel, a very wealthy Cosimo is seen by Frodo buying a lot of property.The Treason of Isengard, "XI. The Story Foreseen from Moria", p. 249 Tolkien wrote in some plot notes that the Sackville-Bagginses become pot-boys in Bree after they are kicked out of the Shire,The Treason of Isengard, "XIII. Galadriel", p. 286 presumably including Cosimo.
In a draft of The Land of Shadow chapter, Sam speculated that Cosimo made a mess in the Shire, causing there to be trouble when they got back.Sauron Defeated, "Part One: The End of the Third Age: III. The Land of Shadow", pp. 32, 34 Tolkien wrote in another group of plot notes that Cosimo was driven out of the Shire after the Hobbits returned there.Sauron Defeated, "Part One: The End of the Third Age: V. The Field of Kormallen: The Story Foreseen from Kormallen", p. 52
In a draft of the Many Partings chapter, Saruman directly mentions Cosimo when he genuinely warns the Travellers about events in the Shire.Sauron Defeated, "Part One: The End of the Third Age: VII. Many Partings", pp. 65-6
Upon mapping out a conversation, Tolkien was originally going to call Cosimo the New Mayor before changing this to the Chief Shirriff. In a later draft, the Bucklanders were going to be among those who rebelled against Cosimo (Fredegar, Tooks) as they would not allow him to dictate them. In another draft, Cosimo was going to drop "Baggins" and simply call himself Sackville. Eventually, Tolkien changed Cosimo to Lotho.Sauron Defeated, "Part One: The End of the Third Age: IX. The Scouring of the Shire", pg. 77-9, 82-5, 88-92, 94-6, 97-9, 101, 103-4, 106-7, 110
==In adaptations==
* Lotho is briefly seen walking around in Bywater in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring video game.
* In The Lord of the Rings Online, Lotho can be found ouside Bag End. Later, he joins with Bill Ferny and Harry Goatleaf and employs a band of his own bounders in the Yondershire to harass its residents and cut the Yondershire off from the Shire proper.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Arabic 	لوثو ساكفيل-باجينز
Belarusian Cyrillic	Лато Сацквілле-Торбінс
Catalan 	Lotho Vilabossot i de Saquet
Chinese (Hong Kong)	傲梭·塞克維爾巴金斯
Danish 	Lotho Posenborg-Sækker
Dutch 	Lotho Buul-Balings
Finnish 	Lotho Säkinheimo-Reppuli
French 	Lotho Bessac-Descarcelle
Georgian 	ლოთო საჩქვილ-ბაგინსი
German 	Lotho Sackheim-Beutlin
Greek 	Λοθο τσουβάλιυιλλε-Μπάγκινς
Hebrew 	לותו סאקוויל-באגינס
Kannada 	ಳೊಥೊ ಸ್ಯಾಕ್ವಿಲ್-ಬ್ಯಾಗ್ಗಿನ್ಸ್
Russian 	Лотто Саквилль-Бэггинс
Spanish 	Lotho Sacovilla-Bolsón
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Лото Сацквілле-Беггінс
Yiddish 	לאָטהאָ סאַקקוויללע-באַגגינס
==References==
Category:Hobbits
Category:Sackville-Baggins
Category:Agents of Saruman
Category:Minor characters (The Lord of the Rings)
Category:Shirriffs
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