Bilbo Baggins

plural Bilbo Bagginses

1. A dogged but unlikely hero.

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   Steve is indebted to many fisheries professionals for his inspiration and knowledge. First and foremost, the late Dr. Weldon (Larry) Larimore, as well as others at the Illinois Natural History Survey; the late Michael Sule; Dr. Michael Wiley; and Thomas Skelly. Steve's late colleague at the DNR, Robert Rung, shared his vast knowledge of the Chicago Region and its fishes and collected specimens from countless sites across northeastern Illinois. His tireless dedication and energy were pivotal to Steve's career. And to Joel Greenburg, the Bilbo Baggins of the Chicago Region

   2025, Francis M. Veraldi, Stephen M. Pescitelli, Philip W. Willink, Fishes of the Chicago Region, University of Chicago Press

   Josephson's impression of Lissitzky was typical. Universally welcomed, he was an instant member of the family. Short, balding, perennially sucking on his pipe, with a constant twinkle in his eye, Lissitzky comes across in memoirs as the Bilbo Baggins of his kind. Unassuming and unimposing, he was everyone's favorite houseguest.

   2015, Jed Rasula, Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, Basic Books, page 229