Otho Sackville-Baggins is the first cousin of the famous burglar Bilbo Baggins. He and his wife Lobelia were never on good terms with Bilbo, always bitter that Bag End, the beautiful hole of the Baggins family upon the Hill in Hobbiton, had not come to them. When Bilbo was presumed dead after leaving on the Quest of Erebor with Thorin Oakenshield and Company, Otho and Lobelia moved into Bag End and started auctioning off Bilbo’s belongings; unfortunately for them, Bilbo returned just in time to stop them.

Bilbo foiled the Sackville-Bagginses once again when he adopted Frodo, his young cousin who had been living with his Brandybuck relatives at Brandy Hall. It appeared that the Sackville-Bagginses would never again see the inside of Bag End, for the hole would go to Frodo when Bilbo left. Their luck changed, however, when Frodo made the strange decision to move away from Hobbiton to Crickhollow in Buckland, there to live with his friends Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took, and Fatty Bolger. Otho had died by that time, but Lobelia and their son, Lotho, took ownership of Bag End.

The Sackville-Bagginses appear in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, in which they play a pivotal role behind the scenes...a role which can be seen in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ by players who know what to look for....

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[edit] Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (née Bracegirdle)

[edit] The widow of Otho Sackville-Baggins

A renowned character of the Shire, she married Bilbo's cousin Otho Sackville-Baggins. Her envy of Bag End was well-known, but she stood up bravely to the Men of Saruman when they invaded the Shire in the last stages of the War of the Ring.

[edit] Otho Sackville-Baggins

[edit] The frustrated heir of Bilbo Baggins

The son of Longo Baggins and Camellia Sackville. Otho's father Longo was Bilbo Baggins' uncle, making Otho himself Bilbo's cousin and heir. He and his wife Lobelia eagerly anticipated their inheritance: Bilbo's home at Bag End. Otho would never inherit that smial, though, because Bilbo changed his will to make Frodo Baggins his heir. Eventually, Frodo sold Bag End to Lobelia, but Otho had died six years earlier, and never owned the home he had coveted throughout his life.

[edit] Sackville-Baggins Family

[edit] The descendants of Longo Baggins and Camellia Sackville

A short-lived family of the Shire-hobbits, formed by the marriage of Longo Baggins to Camellia Sackville. It came to an end with the death of Longo's grandson Lotho in the War of the Ring.