Why did Bilbo Baggins never have a partner or get married?

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Anyone remember?

Note, I'm late 30s and never married, not judging.

Because he didnt want anyone else living in his house and finding the Ring?

He was quite a weird hobbit, wasn't he?
I mean, he travelled. Proper hobbits stayed at home.

So maybe he was that odd, eccentric one who everyone tolerated but wouldn't actually want to form a relationship with?

He want exactly a great catch was he?

I always thought it was because he had his head turned by the Rivenhall elves. He does go off to spend his "retirement there.

Rivendell! Stupid auto correct

Maybe the thought of lobelia sackville baggins put them off.

I think, being one of the Inklings, he may have based Baggins on C.S.Lewis (a confirmed bachelor at the time) or the many other bachelors in Tolkien's working life.

He was gay, fell in love with Kili (who didn’t??) never got over his death!

A neighbour of mine when I was young named dogs after Lord of the Rings characters. I have the mental picture of a pug at a wedding!

Fili.. mixing up my dwarves!

The other Hobbitses thought he had ideas above his station due to his gallivanting and friendship with Gandalf IIRC that was what the films implied

DD is sort of named after an LOTR character..

According to a certain subgenre of Hobbit fanfiction, either he was happily married to Thorin, or (female Bilbo re-writes) had an unhappy marriage to Thorin, LTB, and vowed "never again". There's a reason Hobbit fanfiction doesn't float my boat.

But the Inkling theory, plus other hobbits thought he was a bit weird theory, are my top picks for "genuine" explanations.

Ooo Fili

@BillywilliamV

Fili.. mixing up my dwarves!

I do that too! Interchangeable. (In fact, in the book the only two who stand out are Thorin and Bombur - the rest are amorphous, interchangeable minor characters.)

No I do mean Kiki

@ImEatingVeryHealthilyOhYes

No I do mean Kiki

No, she was the parrot in Enid Blyton's Adventure series.

Kili (am obviously getting flustered) (also completely off topic)

I always assumed it was because his indecent travelling hobby and lack of ordinariness made him undesirable to more respectable hobbits :)

@BillywilliamV

He was gay, fell in love with Kili (who didn’t??) never got over his death!

I've never gotten over Kili and DH knows it 😄

Excellent answers guys, I was thinking the burden of the ring, I've just been on isolation so watched all 6 in a couple days.

Poor Bilbo.

Particularly liked this but am disturbed as fuck:

either he was happily married to Thorin, or (female Bilbo re-writes) had an unhappy marriage to Thorin, LTB, and vowed "never again". There's a reason Hobbit fanfiction doesn't float my boat

I think the ring was too much of an obsession. It takes over the heart and mind. No time or inclination for lesser things. Like a drug. Same thing happened to Frodo.

Frodo had Sam, (Not in the biblical sense though)

Their relationship was heavily homoerotic. At least, according to my kids it was. I read it as pure friendship!

@Zaphodsotherhead

Frodo had Sam, (Not in the biblical sense though)

Their relationship was heavily homoerotic. At least, according to my kids it was. I read it as pure friendship!

I always thought that. But at the end Sam let go and Frodo didn't. Frodo was never free either. It was the bastard wanker ring wasn't it.