In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty,dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozysmell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it tosit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
- The Hobbit, Chapter 1
Bag End is a smial in Hobbiton and the residence of the Baggins family. Frodo Baggins is the sole occupier - his old relative Bilbo having left five years ago to live with the Elves in Rivendell. The smial was built by Bilbo's father. Its gardens are maintained by Samwise Gamgee.