Editing Bag End (section)

== Description ==

=== J. R. R. Tolkien ===

[[File:Tolkien_drawing_Bilbo_Baggins_in_Bag_End.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|left|''The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Baggins Esquire'': Tolkien's drawing of Bilbo Baggins in the front hall of Bag End, showing it as a sizeable room with 20th century fittings including a clock and a [[barometer]].]]

''[[The Hobbit]]'' begins with "among the most famous first lines in literature":<ref name="Vollrodt 2017">{{cite web |last=Vollrodt |first=Kim |title=Tolkien trivia: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" |url=https://blog.oup.com/2017/09/tolkien-trivia-facts/ |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=20 August 2022 |date=20 September 2017}}</ref>

{{quote|In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.{{sfn|Tolkien|1937|loc=Chapter 1. An Unexpected Party}} }}

The [[protagonist]]s of ''The Hobbit'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]] and [[Frodo Baggins]], lived at Bag End, a luxurious ''smial'' or Hobbit-burrow, dug into The Hill on the north side of the town of Hobbiton in [[the Shire]]'s Westfarthing. Tolkien made [[J. R. R. Tolkien's artwork#The Hobbit|drawings of Bag End and Hobbiton]]. His [[watercolour]] ''The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water'' shows the exterior and the surrounding countryside.<ref name="Brooke 2017"/> Tolkien made several pencil and ink sketches for these subjects, only gradually settling on Bag End's final location and architecture.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hammond |editor1-first=Wayne G. |editor1-link=Wayne G. Hammond |editor2-last=Scull |editor2-first=Christina |editor2-link=Christina Scull |title=[[J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-261-10322-1 |pages=96–107}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=McIlwaine |first=Catherine |title=[[Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth]] |publisher=[[Bodleian Library]] |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-851-24485-0 |pages=295–298}}</ref>

Another of Tolkien's drawings, ''The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Baggins Esquire'', depicts the interior, complete [[Anachronism in Middle-earth|with 20th century fittings]] such as a [[wall clock]] and [[barometer]].{{sfn|Hammond|Scull|1995|p=146 "The Hall at Bag-End"}} Another clock is mentioned in chapter 2 of ''The Hobbit''.{{sfn|Tolkien|1937|loc=Chapter 2. Roast Mutton."If you had dusted the mantelpiece you would have found this just under the clock,' said Gandalf, handing Bilbo a note" [from Thorin].}} The barometer is mentioned in Tolkien's drafts of ''The Hobbit''.<ref>[[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien, J. R. R.]] [https://archive.org/stream/BilbosLastSongJ.R.R.Tolkien/The%20Return%20of%20the%20Shadow%20%28Not%20retail%29/The%20Return%20of%20the%20Shadow_%20The%20H%20-%20J.%20R.%20R.%20Tolkien_djvu.txt Bilbo's last Song]: (for "XIV. Return to Hobbiton" note 21) "the Hornblower who received the barometer now changes from Cosimo (by way of Carambo) to Colombo." (A Long-expected Party): "For Cosimo Chubb, treat it as your own, Bingo: on the barometer. Cosimo used to bang it with a large fat finger whenever he came to call. He was afraid of getting wet, and wore a scarf and macintosh all the year round."</ref>{{-}}

=== Peter Jackson ===

[[File:Bag End, Bilbo Baggins House, Hobbiton Movie Set, Matamata, New Zealand 2016 (50797473207).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Jackson's version of the Hill at Hobbiton on the Water. The image may be compared with Tolkien's watercolour painting ''The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water'' (above).]]

[[Peter Jackson]] had an elaborate [[Hobbiton film set]] built on the Alexander sheep farm at [[Matamata]] in New Zealand for his [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film series]]. It included a water-mill, the [[Green Dragon Inn]], and several Hobbit-holes as well as Bag End in a small hill, with garden.<ref name="LA Times 2003">{{cite news |last=Huffstutter |first=P. J. |title=Not Just a Tolkien Amount |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-24-fi-frodoecon24-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=24 October 2003}}</ref> Jackson said of the set, "It felt as if you could open the circular green door of Bag End and find Bilbo Baggins inside."<ref name="Brodie 2004">{{cite book |last=Brodie |first=Ian |title=The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook |edition=Extended version |year=2004 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |location=Auckland |isbn=978-1869505301 |page=19}}</ref>

Chad Chisholm and colleagues, reviewing Jackson's 2012 film ''[[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]'' for ''[[Mallorn]]'', write that Jackson humorously has the "rough and ready" Dwarves "bursting into Bilbo's neat little home and cleaning out his pantry", providing "a sort of constant comic relief to the dangers in the dark".<ref name="Chisholm 2013">{{cite journal |last1=Chisholm |first1=Chad |title=Review: A journey to the cinema. Reviewed Work: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' by Peter Jackson |journal=[[Mallorn]] |year=2013 |issue=54 (Spring 2013) |pages=14–26 |jstor=48614797}}</ref>