How did Frodo get Bag End back?

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.
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What happened to Bag End after Frodo?

After Frodo Baggins left Middle-earth, he gave Bag End to Samwise Gamgee, whose family, the Gardners, would live in it for many years.
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Why did Frodo sell Bag End to the Sackville Bagginses?

He didn't bring much money on his journey. It would have made more sense to spend time on a detailed will, if death is the concern.
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Who bought Bag End from Frodo?

Frodo resumes living in Bag End and is joined by Sam, upon his marriage to Rosie Cotton. However, with wounds too deep to heal, in TA 3021 he names Sam his heir, and leaves across the sea. Bag End remains in the Gamgee family (later known as the Gardners) for at least three generations following Sam.
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Who lived in Bag End after Frodo left?

Samwise went on to have 13 children with his wife, Rosie Cotton, and they all lived in Bag End. The Hobbit hole was eventually passed down through three generations of the Gamgee family, only now, they were referred to as the Gardeners of the Hill -- a name they claimed in honor of Samwise replanting much of the Shire.
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Why did Frodo have to leave Middle Earth? and other questions



Did Sam go to the Undying Lands?

The Ring-bearers, Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins were among the very few mortal beings to set foot on the shores of the Undying Lands. Later Samwise Gamgee, and then Gimli and Legolas together, ventured for the Undying Lands.
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Why was it called Bag End?

Inspiration. The name Bag End name came from the real-life farmhouse in the tiny Worcestershire village of Dormston, in which J.R.R. Tolkien's Aunt Jane lived. It can also be seen as a pun on "cul-de-sac" (literally, "bottom of the bag").
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Who took Bilbos spoons?

Lobelia Bracegirdle was probably born in Hardbottle. She is presumably one of the cousins said to have been less than thrilled about Bilbo's return to Hobbiton, and Bilbo suspects that she stole his spoons. This means she had married Otho before “coming of age”, as she was only 23 years old at the time.
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Where is Bag End in real life?

We have all come to known Bag End as the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and the beginning of many adventures. Not many are aware that Bag End was a name Tolkien borrowed from a real place called Bag End, the farm at Dormston in England, where tolkien's maternal aunt Jane Neave lived.
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What's Frodo real name?

The name Frodo Baggins is an English translation of his Westron name Maura Labingi.
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Why did Gandalf choose Bilbo?

Gandalf 'felt' that he was bolder than the other hobbits and he decided to have Bilbo join Thorin and his company. Gandalf (and many others) regarded Bilbo and Frodo as the best hobbits in whole Middle-earth. Gandalf never explicitly said why he had chosen poor Bilbo to join him and the dwarves in their expedition.
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How old is Gandalf?

The closest approximation of Gandalf's physical age is 24,000 years old, according to Gandalf himself. Yet, various dates of key events in other Tolkien texts show that Gandalf has actually only walked in his physical form for just over two thousand years.
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Who designed Bag End?

After six films, and over a decade of his life, he can't say goodbye completely. Director Peter Jackson and studio Warner Bros.
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Why did Frodo leave in the end?

Since Frodo saved all of Middle Earth, he is granted access on the last ship to leave Middle Earth in place of Arwen, never to return. This shocks his friends, especially Sam who has developed an unbreakable bond of love and friendship with Frodo due to the events of the trilogy.
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Was Frodo an orphan?

In TA 2980, when Frodo was only 12 years old, his parents drowned in a boating accident on the Brandywine River. An only child, Frodo stayed in Brandy Hall until his 99-year-old "uncle" Bilbo adopted him in TA 2989. Bilbo took Frodo to live with him in his home at Bag End and made him his heir.
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Why did Frodo leave Sam?

Frodo left Middle-earth because of what happened to him during Lord of the Rings. He experienced two injuries which never completely faded, meaning he couldn't stay and be happy in Middle-earth.
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Can I visit Bag End?

As it turns, the Shire exists and you can go there! At the Hobbiton Movie Set, you can stroll up to Bag End, drink like a hobbit at the Green Dragon Inn, and walk past hobbit hole after colorful hobbit hole. For LOTR fans, it is a fantasy come true.
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Is Bag End a mansion?

That's the "Hobbit hole" home of Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo, situated in Hobbiton in the Shire. This bit of trivia was documented years ago, but until now no one knew what Jackson did with that set. Jackson's home is an enormous, 1930s mansion situated on a large farm near the New Zealand town of Masterton.
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Why does Bilbo hate the Sackville-Baggins?

Their feud dates from Bilbo's return from his adventures in the Hobbit: Bilbo's cousins the Sackville-Bagginses were, in fact, busy measuring his rooms to see if their own furniture would fit. In short Bilbo was "Presumed Dead," and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong.
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Did Bilbo get his stuff back?

Bilbo finds his belongings being auctioned off. Bilbo eventually made it back to Hobbiton, where he found an auction taking place at which his relatives, the Sackville-Bagginses, believing him dead, were selling most of his possessions to the other hobbits.
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Who is fatty in Lord of the Rings?

Fredegar "Fatty" Bolger was one of the small group of Hobbits who knew that Frodo Baggins had the One Ring. Fatty was a descendant of Hildibrand Took (TA 2849 - TA 2934), one of the many descendants of Gerontius Took. He was the son of Odovacar Bolger and Rosamunda Took.
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Is Bag End a cul-de-sac?

Bag end is a literal translation of the French term cul-de-sac, which has been in use in the English language since XVIII century, but in case of the Bag End of Middle-earth and its residents, this translation works in a fun and ironically witty way. Cul-de-sac literally means 'the bottom of a sack'.
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Why couldnt Aragorn go to the Undying Lands?

Arwen and Aragorn live happily ever after for a time. Yet no mortal can survive forever. And after their marriage, both Aragorn and Arwen are mortal. Arwen, therefore, could not set foot in the Undying Lands without special permission.
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What did Merry and Pippin do after LOTR?

After this, they traveled to Minas Tirith, where they lived out the rest of their days in great honor. Merry and Pippin died at the ages of 109 and 101 respectively, and were laid to rest in Rath Dínen with other great heroes of Gondor, with tombs that were right next to Aragorn's.
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