
Bilbo took Frodo to live with him in his home at Bag End and made him his heir. An only child, Frodo stayed in Brandy Hall until his 99-year-old "uncle" Bilbo, his father's second cousin, adopted him in TA 2989.

In TA 2980, when Frodo was only 12 years old, his parents drowned in a boating accident on the Brandywine River. They would often steal mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's farm Bamfurlong. Frodo was known as something of a rascal, befriending Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck and Peregrin (Pippin) Took and causing trouble wherever they went. Much of Frodo's youth was spent at Brandy Hall in Buckland, the ancestral home of the Brandybuck family, including his mother ( Primula Brandybuck).

5.1 Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings.1.2 Coming of age & flight from the Shire.
