Tag: bilbo baggins

As a thank you for that wonderful response to the racism post that is going around, have a headcanon about Belladonna: In her travels she found this little walking stick crafter who made her a beautiful walking staff. It hangs in a place of honor above the fireplace, long before Sting ever joins it.

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(I bet it’s the one Bilbo took when he left Bag End in lotr ahhhh)

hi hi dets!! how are you today? :D i hope you are well! out of burning curiosity, can i ask two things please? both about sansukh? during the quest, how did bilbo cope with any feelings for thorin and what sort of future, realistically or wishfully, did he think they could have had on the off chance their mad quest was to succeed (ie thorin actually becomes king)? 2) will we be getting more indepth bilbo perspective/exploration in the fic? your bilbo is SO PERF, so opaque, private, selfcontained

Hi there Nonnie!

Ooooh, okay. Well, here are my ideas. 

I think that Bilbo was more than a little exasperated, with himself AND with Thorin, tbh. It’s one of Bilbo’s default positions, in my head: something happens, I SHALL BE IRRITATED ABOUT IT. THERE SHALL BE GRUMBLING. ALSO MUTTERING. 

His little attraction was inconvenient and impossible and completely ill-advised, and furthermore the Dwarf in question was intolerably rude. Oh, Baggins, you have to get a grip on yourself not like that and focus on the matter in hand also not like that. There are far more important things to deal with! 

Now, if only the dratted Dwarf would stop… looking like that. Utterly insupportable. 

Later, of course, after Bilbo had proven himself and after Thorin had learned to appreciate the odd prim little creature he had dragged into the wilds, Bilbo did a lot of scolding himself. You’re friends now. Friends! No – no don’t smile at me, you dratted… oh botheration. Friends. It’s not appropriate. You’re a Hobbit, a Baggins of Bag End. Comport yourself as one!

Oh, confusticate him!

Later still, Bilbo was just worried. Very worried. Worry worry worry. He also does a good line in fretting.

I don’t think he even hoped for so much as a relationship. It was a bothersome little secret all of his own. If he let his eyes linger now and then, it was his own business and nobody else’s. If he hovered close to hear that lovely voice, well, he wasn’t the only one who worried, was he?

I don’t think he ever considered what would happen if everything had turned out for the best. He still wanted his own home, after all: his books, his garden, his armchair, his fireplace, his kettle whistling merrily on the stove. It was only after he came back to them that he found that they were not quite as he remembered. 

I don’t think he would have stayed in Erebor. Balin would probably have died of mortification if anyone had suggested making Bilbo a diplomat. I mean, Bilbo is learned and clever, and terribly terribly brave – but patient he is not. Also, he says some truly spectacular gaffes now and then. (The ‘Furrier’ comment springs to mind. Also – a gentlehobbit talking to Bard and the Elvenking in a proper, haughty Shire business manner – like he is a debtor. !!!)

And of course, Thorin was meant to be King. Thorin was meant to have a home, the Dwarves were meant to belong somewhere at long last. Bilbo wouldn’t have dreamed of interfering with that. 

Absolutely impossible, all of it. 

(Yes, we are definitely seeing more of our evasive private and prickly old Hobbit’s POV! He’s too much fun to write!)

Thank you again, Nonnie 🙂 

May I ask you a question? I love your dwarrowdams, they’re all awesome! But what do you think of the idea that at least some of the company were female? Bilbo was a hobbit, after all, and dwarrowdams look different than female hobbits would. And, although the story is in third person, it is vaguely from Bilbo’s perspective. So, do you think that some of the company could be female, masquerading as male while on the road for various reasons, and Bilbo just didn’t realize?

Hi Nonnie!

I do enjoy that idea. I haven’t used it, obviously, but it is one that I like a lot. I know that Tolkien said something along the lines of keeping the female Dwarves in the Mountains etc, but my own prejudices and inclinations don’t much line up with that! It seems oppressive and isolating and controlling to me. I dislike the total invisibility of anything other than the male Dwarves, so I made my horde of Dwarrowdams. But I do also enjoy stories where one or more of the Company is female, be they cis, trans or other.

I particularly like the idea that perhaps Dwarves have a different concept of gender and gender identity than the other races. dain-mothafocka​ has some truly awesome ideas on Orocarni dwarf gender. Tolkien DOES say that female Dwarves are basically indistinguishable from the boys, too. So I think – why not? Bilbo wouldn’t have been able to tell just by looking at them, their culture is not his (and tbh, unless they say so explicitly to him, it’s not his business).

(I see Ori or Kili written as female most often: myself, I would LOVE to see more AUs where it is Gloin and/or Bifur. Mama Bear and badass berserker vegetarian, yes please!)

Hey look.

liketotessecret:

Bilbo poetry: depressing Sansukh edition.

Ey, you all knew it was coming. Don’t look at me like that.

–

I sit inside this empty room

Alone inside my head

Echoes of love within this tomb

Broken sobs of the dead

 –

Ragged halves of a whole

Cursed to be forever apart

A tortured soul

A broken heart

–

K I L I  W H Y 

A question that popped in my head when you talked about the affect that the Ring had on Bilbo. How do the Elves handle his outbursts of anger, and suspicion, and paranoia? Or does he still have them as badly now that the Ring has been out of his possession for some time, or can they still crop up from time to time? Btw, you’re so super sweet to give such detailed and amazing insights into all these characters, and I’m super excited to see where you take this epic story. <3

Headcanony things to follow, all totally subjective!

They’re receding, yes. Mentions of the Ring can bring a resurgence of vague anger, possessiveness and secretiveness. However, as his mind begins to drift and age creeps up on him at last, the obsession is beginning to fade. It took the very sight of it to bring Bilbo to near-violence, after all… and even then he controlled himself (brrr). 

The Elves have not really been subjected to any unpleasantness: these matters, as Bilbo would say, are his own private business and no nosy busybodies need go poking about. He would most likely seclude himself when he has a “funny turn”. I expect he always did, tbh, and didn’t realise that it was the Ring encouraging to do so, pushing him further into his own isolation.

Thank god for Frodo. 

It’s remarkable, actually, just how resilient Hobbits are – and Bilbo in particular. I honestly don’t know if anyone else could have carried the Ring for so long, and retained so much of themselves. But yeah. Thank god for Frodo. Those 12 years that Bilbo lived with Frodo might (and this is just a personal idea) have been the saving of him.

(And you are super-sweet to say so! Thank you so much!)

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lacefedora:

So god this is embarrassing. I made up a little ditty for ‘I sit beside the fire and think’ from chapter 10 of Sansukh and I’ve been humming it all day so I decided to record it. I will probably delete this out of embarrassment at some point so listen while you can. (The things I find myself doing for determamfidd’s creation)

rohnoc:

Inspired by Sansukh and Dain Ironfoot’s battle piggies, some heraldic scribbles for the line of Durin

The basic shield of the kings of Erebor would have a crown above, with a black chevron representing the mountain under an arc of 7 stars. Beyond this base, each king would have personal elements.

Dain’s Arms have a hammer crossed with his red axe under the mountain, with a raven in flight above, a chevronel under the black to represent his lordship of the Iron Hills, and has, most importantly, boar supporters.

Notes for the Arms of Thror and Thorin under the cut.

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*dies and is transported to heaven*

YOU ARE A GEM BEYOND COMPARE OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING. And I ADORE your thoughts on them!!! Gosh, thank you!

With the dead dwarf peanut gallery, were any of them watching when Bilbo said goodbye to the dwarves of Erebor and the ‘To me he was…’ scene? Did any of the dead dwarves see it? And if they did what were their reactions to that?

I honestly don’t know. Most of Thorin’s family were, at the time, rather preoccupied with the very angry, very guilt-ridden, PTSD -riddled, very dead former King that had joined them, after all!

When I wrote that scene, also, it was LONG before even DOS had come out. And so I used the book-lines, rather than the eventual movie-lines: “Farewell, Thorin Oakenshield! And Fili and Kili! May your memory never fade!”