'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.'
Bilbo IS a Hobbit. Etymologically, a Hobbit is literally a "hole dweller" while Bilbo means "a short sword".
The hobbit is the main character in the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.The word hobbit may come from the Old English word holbytla, which means hole-dweller.
bag end
The hobbit hole Frodo lived in was known as Bag End. It formerly belonged to his uncle Bilbo, but after Bilbo left the Shire all his possessions and Bag End went to Frodo. It was known as one of the most respectable hobbit holes, and it had a circular green door.
Bilbo returns to Bag End in Hobbiton in the Shire.
A hobbit barrow is referred to as a 'smail.'
'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.'
He says that it simply popped into his head. He was grading exams and came upon a blank page. He wrote "In a hole there lived a hobbit." There is a similar word used in some Scandanavian stories that he may have recalled subconsciously.
Bilbo IS a Hobbit. Etymologically, a Hobbit is literally a "hole dweller" while Bilbo means "a short sword".
The hobbit is the main character in the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.The word hobbit may come from the Old English word holbytla, which means hole-dweller.
he lived in a hole with a 7 to 8 change of getting out of the hole so that's why he started to invent things because he had nothing better to do
THE GREAT holy hole
bag end
Chapter 1 An Unexpected Party 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.
The hobbit hole Frodo lived in was known as Bag End. It formerly belonged to his uncle Bilbo, but after Bilbo left the Shire all his possessions and Bag End went to Frodo. It was known as one of the most respectable hobbit holes, and it had a circular green door.
holbytla, a word from rohan, meaning hole dweller.