In J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins’s hobbit-hole is called Bag End.
Bag End is Bilbo’s comfortable home in Hobbiton, a village in the Shire. It is built into the Hill and has the round door and many rooms associated with an idealised hobbit dwelling. Bilbo’s life there is orderly and respectable before Gandalf and the dwarves arrive to recruit him for Thorin Oakenshield’s quest.
The name is a local English expression for a dead-end place, fitting the house’s position at the end of a lane. Tolkien drew heavily on English rural landscapes and place-name traditions when depicting the Shire.
Bag End is sometimes confused with other hobbit locations, including Crickhollow, where Frodo later pretends to move. Bag End remains Bilbo’s home during the opening of The Hobbit and later becomes Frodo’s home in The Lord of the Rings.