Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo Baggins, fictional character, the diminutive hero of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (1937). Bilbo Baggins joins a group of dwarfs on an expedition to recover their stolen goods. It is on this journey that Bilbo finds the ring that is the centrepiece of Tolkien’s later three-part novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).