What is the name of Bilbo and Frodo's hobbit hole?
Answer
Bag End
Answer
Bag End
Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’s hobbit hole is called Bag End. It is a comfortable underground home built into The Hill at Hobbiton in the Shire’s Westfarthing.
Bag End is where The Hobbit begins: Bilbo receives an unexpected visit from Gandalf and the Dwarves before setting out on the quest to reclaim Erebor. Years later, Frodo leaves the same home to carry the One Ring toward Rivendell and ultimately Mordor. Both adventures therefore begin at the same sheltered Shire residence.
The name is also a subtle piece of wordplay. “Bag End” can suggest the end of a bag or a dead-end road, an idea that suits a home at the end of a lane. The dwelling represents the Hobbits’ love of comfort, food, gardens, and familiar routines, all of which stand in contrast to the wider world’s dangers.
Crickhollow is a house in Buckland, while Great Smials is the ancestral home of the Tooks. Brandy Hall is the large Brandybuck family residence, so none of them is the Bagginses’ famous hobbit hole.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026