labingi

family name. Baggins

Baggins Family

Baggins Family

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. The name Baggins is translated in most translations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, often keeping the "bag" or "sack" meaning:

Sackville-Baggins Family

Sackville-Baggins Family

Sackville was the name of a relatively young Hobbit family. Their name had an association with Baggins in that both contained an element for "bag/sack"; Sackville was a slightly more aristocratic version. Tom Shippey argued that this "similarity" also provoked an antonymy: Bag End was used around England as a replacement of French cul-de-sac, "dead end street" - even Tolkien's own aunt Jane Neave lived in a house of that name. Tolkien did not like the Norman conquest of Britain, and made the Bagginses English. The name Sackville, however, is very Norman, as one of the few, if not the only, Hobbit family name.

Bilbo Baggins

Bilbo Baggins

John D. Rateliff has suggested that the name Bilbo is very likely a name invented by Tolkien, a "short, simple, made-up name appropriate for a hero of a children's book or light-hearted fantasy story".

It has been noted that bilbo is a kind of Spanish sword deriving its name from Bilbao. The element bil "sword" is found in some Germanic names (such as Bilihar). "Bilbo" represents a translation of the original Hobbitish Bilba.

Daisy Baggins

Daisy Baggins

Daisy, a flower name, derives from Old English dæges eage "day's eye".

Lotho Sackville-Baggins

Lotho Sackville-Baggins

The name Lotho represents an original Hobbitish Westron name Lotha which was meaningless in contemporary speech.

Pansy Baggins

Pansy Baggins

Pansy is a small garden plant of the violet family. The word derives from French pensée "she who is thought".

Peony Baggins

Peony Baggins

Peony is a genus of the buttercup family of perennial plants with flowers.