Sometime after Tolkien's death, Joy Hill showed the poem to Donald Swann, who liked the poem so much that he set it to music and included it in the second edition of The Road Goes Ever On in 1978.
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The phrase "home is behind, the world ahead" is first uttered by Gandalf near the beginning of the film of The Hobbit, as Bilbo and the dwarves leave the Shire for the first time.
He is best known for his controversial 1947 recording, "Bilbo Is Dead", a song relating to the demise of Theodore G. Bilbo.
Bywater is a village which is situated in close proximity to the Shire, the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, who are the two main characters in the story.
He does not age, but has a sense of becoming "thin and stretched." Toward the end of his possession of the Ring, Bilbo begins to show some of the obsessive tendencies of Gollum — calling the Ring "my precious," and showing flashes of dark hostility when asked by Gandalf to give the Ring to his heir, Frodo.
The Fellowship of the Ring opened with a celebration of Bilbo's birthday.
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Hobbit Day is the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Azurmendi, J. 2012: "Unamunoren atarian" in Alaitz Aizpuru (koord.), Euskal Herriko pentsamenduaren gida, Bilbo, UEU.
The beach is also home to Bilbo, the first ever UK canine lifeguard.
In 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien published the fantasy novel The Hobbit, whose plot centres on a group consisting of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and thirteen dwarves, who go in search of a treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug.
In the Inn at Bree ("At the Sign of the Prancing Pony", The Fellowship of the Ring Chapter 9) Frodo jumps on a table and recites "a ridiculous song" invented by Bilbo.
In the 2012 film Lincoln, the character of William Bilbo was portrayed by actor James Spader.