Lotho Sackville-Baggins was a Hobbit of the Shire, hailing from the Sackville-Baggins family.
Lotho had a poor facial complexion and for that reason he was called the "Pimple" or the "Little Pimple".
Biography
Lotho was born in the year SR 1364 to Otho Sackville-Baggins and his wife Lobelia. He, like the rest of his family, was very unpopular and generally disliked in the Shire. Like his father and mother, he had always desired Bag End for himself - in the year SR 1418 of Shire Reckoning he had already waited sixty-two years for the inheritance, but was foiled when Bilbo's nephew Frodo was bestowed the home. Subsequently, when Frodo embarked on his journey to Rivendell, Lotho finally received Bag End and from there set himself up as Chief of the Shire.
He became an accomplice of Saruman during the War of the Ring. Trading Pipe-weed with Saruman for money, he began buying land in the Southfarthing, where Men from Isengard were stationed. With the aid of these Ruffians, Lotho was able to depose and imprison Will Whitfoot, the Shire's lawful mayor, and declared himself Chief Shirriff, calling himself "The Boss". Under his command, the Shire was industrialized. However, Lotho was soon stripped of his power, and Saruman took over. Saruman's servant Gríma Wormtongue thereafter killed Lotho, and either buried him — or ate him.[1][2]
Portrayal in adaptations
Lotho Sackville-Baggins in The Lord of the Rings Online
- Lotho is briefly seen walking around in Bywater in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring video game.
- In The Lord of the Rings Online Lotho can be found ouside Bag End. Later, he joins with Bill Ferny and Harry Goatleaf and employs a band of his own bounders in the Yondershire to harass its residents and cut the Yondershire off from the Shire proper.
Translations
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Arabic | لوثو ساكفيل-باجينز |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Лато Сацквілле-Торбінс |
| Catalan | Lotho Vilabossot i de Saquet |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | 傲梭·塞克維爾巴金斯 |
| Danish | Lotho Posenborg-Sækker |
| Dutch | Lotho Buul-Balings |
| Finnish | Lotho Säkinheimo-Reppuli |
| French | Lotho Bessac-Descarcelle |
| Georgian | ლოთო საჩქვილ-ბაგინსი |
| German | Lotho Sackheim-Beutlin |
| Greek | Λοθο τσουβάλιυιλλε-Μπάγκινς |
| Hebrew | לותו סאקוויל-באגינס |
| Kannada | ಳೊಥೊ ಸ್ಯಾಕ್ವಿಲ್-ಬ್ಯಾಗ್ಗಿನ್ಸ್ |
| Russian | Лотто Саквилль-Бэггинс |
| Spanish | Lotho Sacovilla-Bolsón |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Лото Сацквілле-Беггінс |
| Yiddish | לאָטהאָ סאַקקוויללע-באַגגינס |
References
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Ch. VIII: "The Scouring of the Shire"
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
