Bilbo Baggins’s home in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is called Bag End. It is a comfortable Hobbit-hole in Hobbiton, a settlement in the Shire. Tolkien describes it as being built into the side of a hill, with a round green door and a long, pleasant interior passage.
The house represents Bilbo’s settled life before Gandalf and the Dwarves interrupt it. Bilbo begins The Hobbit as a respectable, comfort-loving hobbit who values regular meals, good clothing, and predictable routines. His departure from Bag End marks the beginning of his transformation into an adventurer.
Bag End later becomes associated with Frodo Baggins, Bilbo’s younger cousin and heir. The house is sometimes confused with Crickhollow, where Frodo briefly settles after leaving Hobbiton in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien chose “Bag End” as a playful English name: it refers to a dead-end location and echoes the French place-name “Cul-de-Sac.”