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(56,582 posts) Tue Jun 21, 2016, 05:11 AM Jun 2016

Tolkien fans: did Frodo have a job before he left the Shire? [View all]

I mean, he lives in Bag End for 17 years between Bilbo's party and his departure from the Shire. How did he eat? Does Bag End grow enough on its own to both feed a hobbit and support a full-time gardener on the sales of the excess? (Also he apparently had some money with him at Bree, so there must have been some revenue stream, but he made it clear Bilbo didn't leave him any money at all.)

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Tolkien fans: did Frodo have a job before he left the Shire? [View all] Recursion Jun 2016 OP

Nothing off hand sakabatou Jun 2016 #1

For that matter what did Bilbo do? Recursion Jun 2016 #2

I know Bilbo did some trading sakabatou Jun 2016 #3

I think he was a consultant LiberalEsto Jun 2016 #4

He lived off Bilbo's gold. hobbit709 Jun 2016 #5

Bilbo left him nothing Recursion Jun 2016 #13

Is this a joke? Bilbo was independently wealthy. Aristus Jun 2016 #6

He worked the red light district of Bag End. Kaleva Jun 2016 #7

The Baggins were landed gentry MosheFeingold Jun 2016 #8

The Tooks, really Xithras Jun 2016 #14

What a few others are saying here DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #9

He was a gentleman of leisure. malthaussen Jun 2016 #10

He was a naive 1%-er... a puppet for the neocon candidate Gandalf LanternWaste Jun 2016 #11

Hear, hear...and Sauron was a revolutionary opposed to the oppressive class system... First Speaker Jun 2016 #15

Well, he did go to Vegas to work with Moe Green. No wait, that was Fredo. CBGLuthier Jun 2016 #12

he lived off royalties from "Africa" Enrique Jun 2016 #16