Bilbo, the main character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, has the surname Baggins. Bilbo Baggins lives in Bag End, a comfortable hobbit-hole in Hobbiton, before the wizard Gandalf recruits him for an expedition.
Bilbo’s identity is important because he begins as a respectable, home-loving hobbit rather than an experienced warrior. During the journey to the Lonely Mountain, he becomes resourceful and courageous. He encounters Gollum beneath the Misty Mountains and obtains the One Ring, although he does not yet understand its full significance.
The Baggins family is associated with comfort and good standing in Hobbit society. Bilbo’s Took ancestry supplies a contrasting adventurous influence, which helps explain why he is capable of leaving home. The surname is sometimes confused with Took or Gamgee, but those belong to other hobbit families: the Tooks are Bilbo’s mother’s family, while Samwise Gamgee later becomes Frodo’s companion.