Mr Headbutt once actually made it to the Shire. Bilbo was bemused, and sent it back with a sketch of the critter sailing on the Water by his home in a little boat. There is a little Ereborean flag on the boat.

ohhhhhhh i love it. Little toy ram floating about on a boat. LOVE IT.

Does Dwalin still have the conkers Bilbo gave him all the way back in chapter 5? Does he still use them? I’m imagining him playing conkers with all the kids and grandkids of the Company (plus Dis and Dain and family). There are shenanigans.

Awww, Nonnie, what a lovely image!

He does still have them! Unlike a traditional game (in which the horse-chestnuts get cracked) the special Dwarven set that Bilbo gave him were coated in resin and cut into two halves, each fitting together snugly so that it would fall open if struck – but not shatter. Rather like the join around Russian Nesting Dolls.

They are also painted in the colours of the Company’s hoods, btw 😉

Balinith is a bit of a demon at conkers. He squints at them until he has decided which way he will throw, and click! His chosen target is lying in its two neat halves. He always wins. Dwalin is very proud. Gimizh is very annoyed.

Frerinith is also a demon – but mostly that’s because he’s not so much invested in playing the game as he is in chucking the chestnuts at his brothers. He’s definitely smack-bang in the ‘THROWING IS NOT NICE, FRERIN!’ stage of his life.

therebutneverback:

“Bilbo went to sleep with that in his ears, and it gave him very uncomfortable dreams”

aka Thorin sings and Bilbo has ‘uncomfortable’ dreams

don’tjudgemyeditingskillsthankyou

fullmetalnation:

Inspired by Peter Hollens’s cover of The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd, and determamfidd’s fic Sansûkh, which by the way is amazing and you should 10/10 go check that out!

Tbh i drew this while thinking of those scenes where thorin was talking to bilbo and bilbo never noticed

rip

OH GOSSSSH AUGH

Gorgeous! So gorgeous!

Happy headcanon: Dwalin totally writes back and forth with Bilbo, has done so for years. He lets his kids put in a bit of stuff as well. Frerin scribbles, maybe puts an “F,” Balinith goes on about his newest project (currently growing beans), and Wee Thorin talked about his pie heist for half a page.

I like to think that Dori, Dwalin, Gloin and Bofur & Bombur write to Bilbo on the regular 🙂

(Bombur and Bofur write theirs together!)

Bilbo would giggle at Dwalin’s letters, particularly at Wee Thorin’s descriptions. He knows a young Took who would get on with this Gimizh like a house on fire. Screaming, smoke, people running away – that sort of thing.

(He’d absolutely write back with a few pointers for Balinith, possibly after a little chat with Hamfast.)

In a universe where Bilbo and Hrera meet, they would almost immediately have High Tea and complain about the bad habits of the Line of Durin. With awkwardly hovering dwarf hubbies.

Ooooooh, eventually! I have answered something very like this here 🙂

flamesburnonthemountainside:

iriarty:

He follows Bilbo around everywhere

Hehe have you seen this determamfidd

Having a bad week! Oh No! Have some cartoony Bilbo expressions to cheer you up

You are a diamond. *hugs* THEY ARE GORGEOUS AND DELIGHTFUL AND TERRIBLY TERRIBLY HOBBITY. I LOVE HIM. Thank you, Lace!

So Bofur knows that some of Bilbo’s cousins dress up their Dwalin dolls in skirts and play tea party. So Bofur makes up some Dwarrowdam dolls and sends them over. They are most popular with fauntlings, and are often found at tea-tables. The gag gift of a Dwalin-doll in a formal court gown has pride of place in Bilbo’s study.

AWWWWW ❤ ickle Hobbits with their pretty and ferocious Dwarf toys, sipping tea from toy cups. I love it.

(and everyone expects Dwalin to be annoyed by it. The first time he comes across one of his dolls in a lovely red gown, he picks it up and frowns at it. The room takes a collective breath.

Then Dwalin whirls upon Bofur and shoves the doll into his face. “Red? RED? Line of Durin, remember? Bofur. Should be blue. Get it right.”

Then he purses his lips and squints at the doll a little more. “Nice lace though.”

He buys one for Orla, who puts it with the others. Wee Frerinith likes to play with its hair.)

At some point, Bofur made nutcracker-versions of the now-famous Dwalin doll. Bilbo got one for Yule one year and laughed himself sick. The dolls are /especially/ scowly. Dis keeps one in her apartments and uses it regularly to get kids to eat green foods.

OH MY GOODNESS NONNIE, that is SO CUTE

Orla absolutely bought one. She absolutely did. She makes it ‘talk’ back at Dwalin, her face impassive as always but her eyes dancing.

(I can imagine Bilbo using his to unstopper particularly stubborn wine-bottles, ha)