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Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. ‘You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad,’ said Bilbo one day ‘and then we can celebrate our birthday-parties comfortably together.’ At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three. Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the same birthday, September 22nd. When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his heir, and brought him to live at Bag End and the hopes of the Sackville-Bagginses were finally dashed. The eldest of these, and Bilbo’s favourite, was young Frodo Baggins. But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. He remained on visiting terms with his relatives (except, of course, the Sackville-Bagginses), and he had many devoted admirers among the hobbits of poor and unimportant families. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive him his oddities and his good fortune. ‘It isn’t natural, and trouble will come of it!’īut so far trouble had not come and as Mr. ‘It will have to be paid for,’ they said. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth. At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved but unchanged would have been nearer the mark.

At ninety he was much the same as at fifty. Time wore on, but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. And if that was not enough for fame, there was also his prolonged vigour to marvel at. The riches he had brought back from his travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure.

Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.īilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return.