HOUSE DESCRIPTION

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Home of Bilbo Baggins in Hobbiton in the Westfarthing of the Shire. Bag End was a spacious Hobbit-hole built in the side of the Hill near the Water. Three smaller holes were located on the at the bottom of the Hill on Bagshot Row.
Bag End had a round, green door with a brass knob in the middle. The interior doors were also round, as were the windows. The main hallway was rounded like a tunnel, with rooms on either side - the best being on the left-hand side because they had windows overlooking the garden and beyond. The rooms were all on the same level. They included bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries, wardrobes, kitchens, dining rooms, and a study. The rooms were comfortably furnished, the walls were panelled, and the floors were tiled and carpeted.
Bag End was built by Bilbo's father Bungo Baggins on the occasion of his marriage to Belladonna Took. After his mother's death in 2934 of the Third Age, Bilbo inherited Bag End and lived there peacefully for some time until Gandalf the Grey came along one day in 2941 and persuaded Bilbo to go on an adventure. When Bilbo returned he discovered that he was presumed dead and that the Sackville-Bagginses were measuring the rooms of Bag End in anticipation of moving in. They were sorely disappointed.
Bilbo lived alone at Bag End until he invited his orphaned cousin Frodo Baggins to live with him around 2989. Bilbo left Bag End to Frodo when he left the Shire in 3001. When Frodo in turn left the Shire with the One Ring, he sold Bag End at a bargain price to Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, on the pretense that his money was running out and he was moving to a smaller residence at Crickhollow in Buckland. Frodo left Bag End on September 23, 3018.
After the War of the Ring, Saruman traveled to the Shire, where he had contacts with Lotho Sackville-Baggins and others. There he hoped to seek revenge for the destruction of Isengard by spreading destruction to the Hobbits' homeland. Saruman moved into Bag End and ousted the Sackville-Bagginses by having Lobelia arrested and Lotho killed. Frodo returned and ordered Saruman to leave, but as he left Saruman was killed by Grima.
When Lobelia was released from the Lockholes, she gave Bag End back to Frodo. Bag End was restored to its former comfortable state. Frodo invitedSam Gamgee and Sam's new wife Rosie to move in with him in May of 3020. When Frodo left Middle-earth in 3021, he gave Bag End and its contents to Sam and his descendants.

"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."