The moment they first meet, Thorin just can’t keep his hands off Bilbo :3
I’m not quite sure what’s going on here 😡
Thorin helps Bilbo with his pack :3
Thorin keeps putting his arm around Bilbo and touching him a lot :3
The mithril scene :3
Thorin’s famous quote about cleaning and redecorating Erebor, which was sadly left out of the Jackson movie version (but I live in hope for the Extended Edition) :3
On Thorin’s deathbed they hold hands also in this version ;____;
excuse me but i’ve just found out that the 80th anniversary of marriage is caLLED “OAK WEDDING” AND I CANNOT
And here’s something to add to this. Bilbo was 51 when the quest happened and when botfa happened. Bilbo lived to be about 131 yrs before he set sail at the Grey Haven. That’s 80 years of Bilbo’s life without Thorin.
You can go ahead and kill me now. I’m basically dead inside anyway.
*genuinely begins to consider that tolkien is the Actual Father of bagginshield*
Don’t think of it as sad. Think of it this way.
In honour of Thorin’s memory, Bilbo shows his love for the dwarf by continuing to live his life to the best he can, even if it was painful at times.
He took Frodo under his wing after his parents died. Samwise Gamgee wouldn’t be Samwise the Brave that we know, if it weren’t for Bilbo being his tutor. Bilbo did live a heavy burden of 60 years under the grasp of the One Ring, but he had been able to withstand the whispers of the Ring and give up his possession of it, with Gandalf’s help.
Free from the Ring, he took on his last adventure towards the east to Dale before going back and retiring Rivendell due to his rapid aging. In those remaining 20 years of his life, he devoted and continued his written account of the Thorin’s quest for Erebor.
It just seems so poetic and perfect that their years of separation, because of death, landed on the 80th wedding anniversary. Thorin told Bilbo that he should plant his [acorn] trees, and watch them grow.
Oak trees are one of the strongest wood in the world, and it symbolizes strength and endurance, as it stands strong through all the hardships of life.
Basically in this case, I like to think that Bilbo represents that acorn itself that grew into the oak tree. His love for Thorin grew as strong as an oak tree. And I just want to keep it in my heart that they reunite on this anniversary after all the hardship they have gone through after being separated from each other. (lmao I’m not listening to the fact that it’s impossible for them to meet in the afterlife and lol kinda went in Sansukh territory here haha)
“You may yet have that chance,” Tauriel said, very close and Kili opened his eyes. “Not all agree with the decision of the King, and believe that your quest–the destruction of the dragon, is our fight as well. Most of the kingdom will be at the feast, and you may need to act quickly. Be prepared.”
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“Quit hogging the boy,” Oin said, far too loud. He had his horn back, miracles of miracles, and it looked as if someone with no little skill had taken tool to it to finally hammer out the damage inflicted by the goblins. He pulled Gimli into a tight hug. “I knew you’d make our way back to us,” Oin said. “All the signs point to our victory.”
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And there, atop the tallest tower, a Dwarvish windlance–a broken memorial to the destruction of the wrath of dragons.
Laketown was exactly that–a town built on Long Lake. Several man-made islands carried carious houses that pitched and tilted with the sway of the water. The roads were waterways, lined with footpaths and crossed by the occasional bridge. The whole town seemed to stink of poverty and fish.
6.7k and it’s maybe halfway done. Maybe. Holy shit.
To elaborate: my autism makes it so that having to interact socially with other people drains my writing impetus. There are only so many spoons I can dispense and only so many fucks I can give. It’s always been like that, and as a result, I’ve had a more or less steady case of writer’s block since high school. And now I’ve been writing AT LEAST 500 words a day every day (except on the few days after I post a chapter) for almost TWO MONTHS.
I can legitimately say that I am prouder of this coming chapter than of the lab rotations I’m going to do this summer.
Ahhhhhh, Dain is a fun character to write – because he is so blunt and honest and funny, but he is not necessarily forthcoming. He is very, VERY smart – easily one of the smartest characters in the whole story. He is also very perceptive. He can conceal all of this behind his loud, bluff, good-humoured exterior. People don’t expect that savagely sharp brain: they expect a Dwarf like that to be dumb.
Last mistake they’ll ever make, lol.
Dain knows his cousin. He knows that Thorin tends to latch onto causes, and he knows that they always have huge personal significance to him.
So, Thorin knew a hobbit – and there would have been rumours about that floating around the remainder of the Company the whole time Dain ruled Erebor. Nothing explicitly said, just hints here and there, but Dain is easily intelligent enough to pick up on nuance. He’d know that there was something unsaid, something there, between Bilbo and Thorin.
Therefore, Dain would know that Thorin’s interest in these two hobbits must have personal significance as well. It’s not too hard to put two and two together to make four: particularly after discovering that Merry and Pip are Bilbo’s cousins.
Aw Yiss 