BAG END

 Plan of Bag End

~The most luxurious hobbit-hole in Hobbiton~

"Bag End is the underground dwelling of the Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. From there, both Bilbo and Frodo set out on their adventures, and both return there, for a while. As such, Bag End represents the familiar, safe, comfortable place which is the antithesis of the dangerous places that they visit.

Bag End is a vision of Tolkien's ideal home, and effectively an expression of character. Tolkien stated "I am in fact a Hobbit", and scholars agree that he was in many ways like his Hobbits, enjoying good food, gardening, smoking a pipe, and living in a familiar and comfortable home. Tolkien makes Bag End a place where most readers feel severely tempted to put on their imaginary slippers and settle down to a piece of cake and some tea."

"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."

Opening lines of The Hobbit