Lotho Sackville-Baggins

Lotho Sackville-Baggins (TA 2964–3019) was a Hobbit of the Shire, son of Otho and Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, probably unmarried.

In September TA 3018, Lotho and his mother moved into Bag End after buying it from Frodo. Shortly afterward, using money obtained from Isengard and elsewhere from the sale of pipeweed grown on his lands in the Southfarthing, he began buying up property and supporting outside Men, known as Ruffians or the Chief's Men. Lotho then imprisoned Will Whitfoot, the mayor of Michel Delving and, naming himself Chief Shirriff, took over the Shire, industrializing and regimenting it's life.

In September TA 3019, with the arrival of Saruman, his power collapsed. Sometime in September or October he was slain - perhaps by Gríma, who may have eaten him.

Lotho was frequently called, at his own insistence, "the Chief", which was short for Chief Shirriff. The Hobbits of the Shire called him Pimple or Little Pimple; he seems to have had a number of facial blemishes.