So far as I can find out, no one has ever written a definitive "biography" of the life of Bilbo Baggins.  This is my attempt to do so. 

It will be grounded firmly in the fanon space of "my" Shire-universe, and there may occasionally be passages you recognize from some of my other stories.  I will try to keep that to a minimum as much as I can.  Also, I will be using the two-thirds age conversion for hobbits that I have always used. 

I hope all of you will enjoy this story of young Bilbo and how he grew up to become the hobbit who followed Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves "off into the Blue for mad adventures"!

I completed this story as a part of the  wipbigbang, and the artist assigned to me made me two beautiful large banners, and small chapter banners for each chapter. If you'd like to see her lovely work you can find it here at Banners for Eleventy-One: Too Short a Time by Knowmefirst.