Even though, like Bilbo Baggins, he may not be eager for adventure, he is willing or somehow brought into a fantasy affair.

In Portugal, it's called " azeda " ( sour ), and is usually chewed raw, just like Bilbo Baggins did on the second from last line on page 87 of the Hobbit 50th anniversary edition.

* Hobbit Day, a day celebrating the fictional characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, as a part of Tolkien Week.

The evolution and maturation of the protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is central to the story.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

* Sting ( Middle-earth ), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

In, Gandalf arranged ( and frequently accompanied ) a band of thirteen dwarves and the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim from the dragon Smaug the Dwarves ' lost treasure in Erebor.

These recordings are generally regarded as unintentionally camp, though his tongue-in-cheek performance of " The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins " received a fair amount of airplay when Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were released.

The book recounts the tale of a party of dwarves ( consisting of a few of the original residents of the Lonely Mountain and their descendants ) and Bilbo Baggins ( the titular hobbit ) to recapture the mountain and kill the dragon.

Smaug was intimately familiar with every last item within his hoard, and instantly noticed the theft of a relatively inconsequential cup by Bilbo Baggins.

* Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.

In The Hobbit, the Wargs appear twice, once by working with goblins, in hunting Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and the dwarves just east of the Misty Mountains, and once at the Battle of Five Armies.

Gandalf insisted burglary was the best approach and recommended the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, whom he represented to be a professional thief.

Hobbits first appeared in the novel The Hobbit, in which the main protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is the titular hobbit.

Two Hobbits, Bilbo Baggins and the Old Took, are known to have lived to the age of 130 or beyond, although the race's average life expectancy is 100 years.

Hobbits are also featured in Leonard Nimoy's " Ballad of Bilbo Baggins ".

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit.

The Hobbit relates how Bilbo Baggins, in comfortable middle age at 50 years old, is hired in spite of himself as a " burglar " by the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves led by their king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.

In (), Bilbo, a lifelong bachelor, adopted Frodo, the orphaned son of his first cousin Primula Brandybuck and his second cousin Drogo Baggins, and made him his heir.

According to the Appendices of The Return of the King, Bilbo was born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took on 22 September, T. A.

Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* A brief character study of Bilbo Baggins

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Freed of the Ring's power over his senses, Bilbo travelled to Rivendell, where for the next 17 years he lived a pleasant life of retirement: eating, sleeping, writing poetry, and working on his memoirs, There and Back Again, known to us as The Hobbit.

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins and his Hobbit companions journeyed to Rivendell, where they met with Bilbo, who had retired there after his 111th birthday, spending his time on his memoirs, There and Back Again.

There are hints in the History of Middle-earth series of books, ( especially in Morgoth's Ring in the section " Myths Transformed "), that some Orc leaders, such as the First Age's Boldog, or the Great Goblin encountered by Bilbo and the Dwarves, may in fact have been fallen Maiar which had taken Orc form:

Bilbo thinks of calling his work There and Back Again, A Hobbit's Holiday.

There is no such framework in the published version of The Silmarillion ; Tolkien eventually changed the intended framework of the saga, altering its mode from tales told by Ælfwine to one based around Bilbo Baggins's Red Book translations of " Elvish lore ".

In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier.

McCoy was the second choice to play the role of Bilbo Baggins in the Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of The Hobbit.

Freeman will play Bilbo Baggins, the main character in the three-part Peter Jackson film series The Hobbit.

Ian Holm, who played Frodo Baggins in the radio serial, went on to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy.

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo was voiced by Norman Bird.

In the BBC's 1981 radio serialization of The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo is played by John Le Mesurier.

At the end of The Lord of the Rings Gildor is seen accompanying Bilbo, Elrond, and Galadriel to the Grey Havens.

In January 1980 Le Mesurier played The Wise Old Bird in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and appeared on the same channel as Bilbo Baggins in the 1981 radio version of The Lord of the Rings.

Other well-known film roles include the android Ash in Alien, Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element, and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and the forthcoming The Hobbit ( film series ).

The same year he appeared as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, having previously played Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins in a 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

The time frame is shortly before the onset of the main events of The Lord of the Rings with Bilbo having gone to Rivendell.

However, in the published Silmarillion it is stated that Orcs " had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar ", implying that they exist ; in The Hobbit the Orc Bolg is the son of one Azog, while Gollum is described as having eaten a young Goblin-imp ( Goblins often being synonymous with orcs ) shortly before he first met Bilbo ( which seems to be alluded to in The Lord of the Rings movie when Gollum goes on ( with himself ) about how unpleasant-tasting orcs are and that sweet Hobbit meat would suit Shelob better ).

* It is also known as " eleventy ", a term made famous by linguist and author J. R. R. Tolkien ( Bilbo Baggins celebrates his eleventy-first birthday at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings ) and derived from the Old English hund endleofantig.

Bilbo later expands his memoirs into a record of the events of The Lord of the Rings, including the exploits of his kinsman Frodo Baggins and others.

After the defeat of Sauron ( the Lord of the Rings ) Bilbo gives these volumes to Frodo.

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo recounts his altercation with the three stone-trolls and later on, the four hobbits and Aragorn are shown resting in the shelter of the petrified trolls.

When he revised The Hobbit to bring the story of the finding of the Ring in line with The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien retained the original version as the tale Bilbo told to justify his acquisition of the Ring.

* Bagshot Row, a fictional street near Bag End, the residence of Bilbo Baggins, and later Frodo Baggins before he bequeathed it to Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings

Second oldest is 16-year-old Larry ( Kyle Sullivan ), an odd misfit given to emotional outbursts ( such as when Vicky denies him permission to see Brian Boitano star as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings On Ice ).