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The '''Baggins Family''' were a remarkable and rich [[Hobbits|Hobbit]] family from [[The Shire]] which included two [[Ringbearer]]s: [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] and [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo]].<br />
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==History==<br />
The Baggins clan traced their origin to the first recorded Baggins, one ''Balbo Baggins'', who was born in or near Hobbiton in {{SR|1167}}.<br />
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The Baggins family lived all around in [[the Shire]], mostly in or near the town of [[Hobbiton]]. They were seen as well to do and respectable, but those with [[Took]] blood were more adventurous. A notable example was [[Bilbo Baggins]] who set out on the quest for [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] with [[Gandalf]] the Grey and thirteen [[Dwarves]]: when he returned he was seen as odd or queer, but also extremely rich.<br />
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Bilbo adopted his "nephew" [[Frodo Baggins]], who inherited the ''[[smial]]'' of [[Bag End]] after Bilbo left. Frodo himself was involved in the quest which ended the [[War of the Ring]].<br />
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After Bilbo and Frodo left the only recorded Bagginses are the descendants of Bilbo's great-nephew ''[[Posco Baggins]]'', although many other descendants of Balbo Baggins are also recorded, under the ''[[Sackville-Baggins Family|Sackville-Bagginses]]'', the ''[[Chubb-Baggins Family|Chubb-Bagginses]]'', as well as [[Peregrin Took]] and [[Meriadoc Brandybuck]] (through various interfamiliary marriages).<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The name Baggins is a translation in English of the actual [[Westron]] name ''[[Labingi]]'', which was believed to be related to the Westron word ''[[laban]]'', "bag". The name is associated with '''[[Bag End]]'''.<ref name="Nomen">{{HM|N}}, p. 753</ref><br />
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The name Baggins is translated in most translations of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', often keeping the "bag" or "sack" meaning:<br />
*In the German translation the family name is Beutlin<br />
*In the Dutch translation it is Balings<br />
*In the French translation it is Sacquet in most books, but Bessac in the new ''Hobbit'' translation<br />
*In the Norwegian translation it is Lommelun<br />
*In the Finnish translation it is Reppuli<br />
*In the Spanish translation it is Bolsón<br />
*In the Swedish translation it is Bagger<br />
*In the Portuguese translation it is Bolseiro<br />
*In the Frisian translation it is Balsma<br />
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==Inspirations==<br />
{{quote|Intended to recall bag — cf. Bilbo’s conversation with Smaug in The H. [Chapter 12] — and meant to be associated (by hobbits) with Bag End...|[[Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings|''Nomenclature'']]}}<br />
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==Genealogy==<br />
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