Bag End

Bag End, or Bag-End, was a smial situated at the end of Bagshot Row in Hobbiton. It was the home of Bilbo Baggins, afterwards of Frodo Baggins, and later of Samwise Gamgee and his wife Rosie Cotton.
==History==
Bilbo Baggins had inherited the home from his parents, Bungo and Belladonna (Took) Baggins. It was Bungo who built the smial for Belladonna, around the year TA 2889. The hobbit-hole was noted to have a green door with a round brass knob, all but countless rooms with round windows, and a garden. Bag End was frequently visited, at least during Bilbo's time.The Hobbit, Ch. I: "An Unexpected Party" The grounds and home were maintained by the Gamgee family, most notably Hamfast ("The Gaffer"), and later his son, Samwise.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One
The beautiful home was a point of contention between Bilbo and his relatives the Sackville-Bagginses, who very much desired to own it. Here, Bilbo lived a quiet existence until the Wizard Gandalf appeared with thirteen Dwarves at the beginning of The Hobbit, and Bilbo went off on his first adventure. Upon his return long later, he discovered his possessions being auctioned off, since the local population had assumed he had died. The Sackville-Bagginses in particular were disappointed at his return.
By the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo adopted his cousin (and nephew) Frodo as his heir. Frodo became the Master of Bag End on their mutual birthday, when Frodo turned 33 and Bilbo turned 111. Bilbo left to live with the Elves at Rivendell. Frodo remained content at Bag End until Gandalf returned and confirmed that Bilbo's Ring was actually the One Ring. Preparations for departure ensued, with Frodo selling Bag End to the Sackville-Bagginses and moving to Crickhollow before departing on the Quest of the Ring.
Upon their return, during the Scouring of the Shire, Frodo and company discovered that Lotho Sackville-Baggins had made Bag End his power base as he became the Chief Shirriff of the Shire. He succeeded only too well and lost control of the entire enterprise; after Saruman arrived, Gríma killed Lotho in his sleep. Frodo and his companions would later see Saruman killed on his front porch, thus ending the Battle of Bywater. Afterwards, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins ceded Bag End back to Frodo.
Frodo then resumed living in Bag End and was joined by Sam, upon his marriage to Rosie. However, with wounds too deep to heal, in TA 3021 Frodo named Sam his heir and left to cross the sea into the Uttermost West. Bag End remained in the Gamgee family (later known as the Gardners) for at least three generations afterward.
==Inspiration==
The name Bag End came from the real-life farmhouse in the tiny Worcestershire village of Dormston, in which J.R.R. Tolkien's Aunt Jane lived.J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, "Northern venture", pg. 113 It can also be seen as a pun on "cul-de-sac" (literally, "bottom of the bag"). In the books, it is said to be a translation of the Westron Labin-nec, which has much the same meaning, and bears the same relationship to the Westron form of Baggins: Labingi.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Sak Einde
Albanian 	Fundi Qese
Amharic 	ቦርሳ መጨረሻ
Arabic 	حقيبة النهاية
Armenian 	պայուսակ վերջը
Azerbaijani 	Torba Son ?
Belarusian Cyrillic 	сумка канец
Bosnian 	Torba Kraj
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Торбодън
Burmese 	ဘက်ဂ်အန်းဒ်
Cambodian 	កាបូបបញ្ចប់
Catalan 	Atzusac
Chinese (Hong Kong) 	袋底洞
Cornish 	Diwedh Sagh ?
Croatian 	Vrećasti vijenac
Czech 	Dno Pytle
Danish 	Sækkedyb
Dutch 	Balingshoek
Esperanto 	Sako Fino
Estonian 	Kott Lõpp
Finnish 	Repunpää
French 	Cul-de-Sac
German 	Beutelsend
Haitian Creole 	Sak Fen
Hausa 	Jakar Karshen
Hebrew 	מעון-באג
Hindi 	बैग का अंत
Hungarian 	Zsákvég
Italian 	Casa Baggins
Irish Gaelic 	Deireadh Mála
Japanese 	バッグエンド
Javanese 	Tas Mburi
Kannada 	ಚೀಲ ಕೊನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ
Kazakh 	Сөмке соңы (Cyrillic) Sömke soñı (Latin)
Korean 	백 엔드
Kurdish 	Dawiya Tûr ? (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	аягы сумка
Latin 	Bag-Finis
Lithuanian 	Begendas
Malaysian 	Beg Akhir
Maltese 	Tmiem Borża
Marathi 	बॅग समाप्त
Nepalese 	झोला अन्त्य
Norwegian 	Sekkershus / Lommekroken
Occitan 	Saca Acabar
Pashto 	کڅوړه پای ?
Persian 	پایان کیسه
Polish 	Pagórek
Portuguese 	Bolsão (Brazil) Fundo do Saco (Portugal)
Romanian 	Sfârşitul de Sac
Russian 	Бэг Энд
Scottish Gaelic 	Deireadh Poca
Serbian 	Багремовој улици (Cyrillic) Bagremovoj Ulici (Latin)
Sindhi 	بيگ آخر
Sinhalese 	බෑග් අවසානය
Slovak 	Koniec Lazov (Krupa tr.) Vreckany (Kořínek tr.)
Slovenian 	Mošnjičkov kot
Somalian 	Bacda Dhamaadka
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Bolsón Cerrado
Swahili 	Mwisho wa Mfuko
Swedish 	Baggershus (Old) Säcks ände (New)
Tajik Cyrillic 	Баг Енд
Tamil 	பேக் முடிவு
Telugu 	బ్యాగ్ ముగింపు
Thai 	ปลายถุง
Turkish 	Çıkın Çıkmazı
Turkmen 	Bukja Ahyr ?
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Торбин Кут
Urdu 	بیگ اختتام
Uzbek 	Баг Энд (Cyrillic) Xalta Oxiri (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Đáy Bao
Volapük 	Trök Fin
Welsh 	Diwedd Bag
Yiddish 	באַג סוף
==References==
==External links==
*Fans who building a Hobbit Hole
ru:Бэг Энд
Category:Houses
Category:The Shire
Category:Westfarthing
Category:Shire-buildings
__NOTOC__
de:Beutelsend
es:Bolsón Cerrado
fr:Cul-de-Sac
it:Casa Baggins
nl:Balingshoek
pl:Bag End
ru:Бэг Энд
tr:Bag End
uk:Торбин Кут