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A Hobbit family tree derived from those constructed and presented by Tolkien himself, including the Baggins family.

The Baggins family was a prominent, respectable, and wealthy family of Hobbits that lived in the Shire.

History[]

The Baggins family lived in the Shire, mostly in or near the town of Hobbiton, hence they were often referred to as the family "Baggins of Hobbiton". They were seen as respectable until Bilbo Baggins set out on the Quest of Erebor with Gandalf the Grey and thirteen Dwarves; when he returned he was seen as odd or queer, but also extremely rich.

Bilbo adopted his "nephew" Frodo Baggins, who inherited the smial of Bag End after Bilbo left. Frodo himself was involved in the Quest of the Ring, which ended the War of the Ring.

The Baggins clan could trace their origin to the first recorded Baggins, one Balbo Baggins, who was born in or near Hobbiton in 1167 of the Shire Reckoning (2767 Third Age). Bilbo was a great-grandson of Balbo, as was Frodo's father Drogo.

After Bilbo and Frodo left Middle-earth, the only recorded Bagginses were the descendants of Bilbo's great-nephew Posco Baggins, although many other descendants of Balbo Baggins were also recorded, under the Sackville-Bagginses, as well as Peregrin Took and Meriadoc Brandybuck (through various inter-familial marriages).

The name Baggins is a translation in English of the actual Westron name Labingi, which was believed to be related to the Westron word labin, "bag".[citation needed]

List of Bagginses[]

Notable Bagginses[]

  • Balbo Baggins (TA 2767 - c.TA 2863) was the first recorded Baggins, and the ancestor of the Baggins family of Hobbiton. He married Berylla Boffin and had five children: Mungo, Pansy, Ponto, Largo, and Lily.
    Note on Balbo's dates: In the published Baggins genealogy, only Balbo's birthdate is shown, but by looking at his children, it is possible to estimate his deathdate.
  • Mungo Baggins (TA 2807- TA 2900) was the grandfather of Bilbo Baggins. Mungo was the eldest son of Balbo Baggins and Berylla Boffin. Mungo had four younger siblings as listed above. Mungo married Laura Grubb and had five children.
  • Bilbo Baggins (TA 2890 - ?) was the first Baggins to have a great adventure. He became extremely wealthy, and was quite eccentric: known to some as "Mad Baggins".

Other Bagginses[]

  • Polo Baggins, son of Ponto Baggins and Mimosa Bunce, brother of Rosa Baggins (see above), had two children, Posco and Prisca Baggins.

Sackville-Baggins family[]

The Sackville-Baggins family was founded by the marriage of Longo Baggins to Camellia Sackville, heiress of the Sackville family headship. Their son, Otho Sackville-Baggins, adopted a double name, kept by his wife Lobelia (née Bracegirdle). They had a son Lotho, who was murdered. At Lobelia's death, the brief-lived family disappeared.

  • Otho Sackville-Baggins (TA 2910 - TA 3012) adopted the name of both his parents, effectively founding a new family. His and his son Lotho's ambition was to succeed Bilbo (and later Frodo) as head of the Baggins family; had that happened, Lotho would have called himself 'Baggins-Sackville-Baggins.'
  • Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (TA 2918 - TA 3020) married Otho, and had a son, Lotho. Lobelia had tried to claim Bag End together with Otho during Bilbo's disappearance, but could only move in when Frodo sold it to her. Much of Bilbo's silverware vanished during his disappearance; when Bilbo left the Shire permanently, he gave Lobelia a box of silver spoons labeled "For Lobelia, from Cousin Bilbo, as a present." During the War of the Ring, she opposed Saruman, and was imprisoned. Freed after the Scouring of the Shire, Lobelia granted Bag End back to Frodo, and moved back to her original family, She died in 3020, and she was over 100 years old.

The name Sackville was a familiar "aristocratic" name in J.R.R. Tolkien's day, especially in double-barrelled names such as Sackville-West, and he presumably used it (and the contrast with the more mundane Baggins) to imply the somewhat snobbish nature of the Sackville-Bagginses. Notes in the guide for translators of the LotR show Tolkien also had the "sack"/"bag" connection in mind, which is kept in most translations, e.g. in Dutch the name becomes Buul-Balings, "buul" and "baal" both being words for sack or bag.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Arabic باجنز
Armenian Բագգինս
Asturian Bolsona
Basque Zorrozabal
Belarusian Cyrillic Баггінс
Breton Sac'heg
Bulgarian Cyrillic Баггинс
Catalan Bolsón
Chinese (Hong Kong) 巴金斯
Colognian Büggels
Czech Pytlík
Danish Sækker
Dutch Balings
Esperanto Baginzo
Estonian Paunaste
Finnish Reppuli
French Sacquet / Bessac
Galician Bulseiro
German Beutlin
Greek Μπάγκινς
Hebrew בגינס
Hindi बैगिन्स
Hungarian Zsákos
Icelandic Baggi
Irish Gaelic Baigíns
Japanese バギンズ
Kannada ಬ್ಯಾಗ್ಗಿನ್ಸ್
Kazakh Бэггинс (Cyrillic) Beggins (Latin)
Korean 배긴스
Kurdish Torbikan (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Бэггинстин
Laotian ແບັກກິ້ນສ໌
Latvian Baginss
Macedonian Cyrillic Баггинс
Marathi बॅगेन्स
Mongolian Cyrillic Баггинс
Nepalese बैगिन्स
Norwegian Lommelun / Skrepping
Occitan Saquet
Persian بگینز
Polish Baggins (Skibniewska tr.)

Bagosz (Łoziński tr.)

Portuguese Bolseiro (Brazil)
Russian Бэггинс
Serbian Баггинс (Cyrillic) Baggins (Latin)
Sinhalese බැගින්ස්
Spanish Bolsón
Slovak Bublík

Lazník (Ancient)

Slovenian Bisagin
Swedish Secker

Bagger (Ancient)

Telugu బాగ్గినస్
Thai แบ๊กกิ้นส์
Ukrainian Cyrillic Торбин
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