Tag: hobbits

I feel like Hobbits would be that one race that unknowingly domesticates some wargs or something. Like a ranger comes along one day and just sees one of the farmers petting the warg they found and won over with good food and just ‘that’s a warg…’ ‘no no his name is Heather, he’s just a big ol softie’ ‘no that is literally a warg wtf’ ‘is he? Well he’s good at guarding the crops so…’ Heather just sits there all scruffy and tongue lolling.

holy HECK ems…! This is so perfect, this is amazing. 

I need this. I need Ole Gammer Greenhand and her big happy lollopy puddle of a warg doggo, Heather. 

With his big sad eyes whenever she is cooking, so that he gets the scraps. “Bottomless pit… all right, here you are. I spoil you rotten, y’know that?”

 And his tendency to try and curl up on her tiny lap, even though he can only fit his head and maaaaaaybe his front paws on there. “Ooof! Oh, you big goof. All right, who wants an ear-scratch? Whosagoodboy? Whoosagooboyden! YOU ARE!”

And his goofy, tongue-lolling grin after he has done a good job chasing the birds off the seedlings. “That’s a lad! Good boy, Heather.”

And oh yes FINE, sure – and his teeth that can crack an ox’s thighbone in one bite. “Oh, that’s just the dog, that crunching noise – pay it no mind me dears.”

and the ranger sees him and stares.

And Gammer Greenhand notices where the ranger is looking, and waves a tiny, wrinkled hand. “That’s just Heather, the great lummox. He’s a big soft lump, but I keep him for the company, you know? It’s nice t’ have someone to talk to, at my age.”

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FOTR also has a doggo barkin at the Black Rider, looks like a mutt of some kind, very cute (maybe Hobbits have big doggos then, ironically…)

I honestly, honestly love the idea of proper, staid little Hobbits and their big ole woofinpuppers. <333

So I just found out that Tolkien wrote the hobbits as people of color and now I’m just imagining all the possibilities. Like dark skinned hobbits with brightly colored eyes or hair. So cool.

YES! I know, right!!! One of my fave things. That’s why I go out of my way to mention the ‘brown’ face or ‘brown’ hands (BROWN HOBBITS). 

Also, Aragorn is explicitly and constantly referred to as ‘dark’, so make of that what you will (MY MIND’S ARAGORN IS A POC)

Courtesy of the Gimizh & co., Gimli and the remainder of the company send a package to Bilbo and the hobbits of the Fellowship. In it? A set of fake beards and mustaches for them, all in the correct colors, made by Dori, Dis, and even one made by Wee Thorin, since, “They don’t got no hair on their faces at all!” Merry and Pippin often wear theirs, especially when they finally *visit* Erebor. Bilbo and Frodo’s *might* make their across the sea with them.

Sam: “Well, look at me, Mister Frodo! Why, I could be as Stoorish as a Breelander!” It gets Frodo to smile. That means it’s worth its weight in gold, as far as Sam’s concerned. 

(Tiny little Elanor finds it one day. She looks HYSTERICALLY FUNNY in it.)

Merry & Pippin: *die of laughter, use them to prank each other and everybody else*

Frodo: sends a very polite ‘thank you’ letter… and never wears it.

Bilbo: secretly tries it on in the mirror when nobody else is watching, checks himself from all angles, preens and prances about a bit and chuckles and uses all the Dwarvish swear-words he remembers… and then grows quiet, letting the funny beard fall to his knees and sighing. 

Hi! I just wanted to ask, since you’ve done a lot on dwarven aging, what do you think about hobbit aging?

Hey there! Lovely to hear from you!

Luckily, there’s HEAPS of info here. Tolkien loved his fussy little Hobbitses, and gave them plenty of attention (unlike Dwarves, I am not bitter I am bitter). So all this here? Is canon.

Hobbits age slowly, in comparison to Men. They come of age at 33 years old.

The period of their twenties is a wild and heady, irresponsible sort of time, known as the ‘tweens.’ 

For reference, during LOTR? Pippin is 29. (Yes, he’s not even an adult!!!) Frodo was meant to be a particularly rambunctious tween, who loved to steal Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms. 

50 is literally their middle-age, as the average Hobbit’s lifespan is around 100 years old. 

Bilbo is a VERY exceptional hobbit. He says at one point that his aim is to live longer than the Old Took, his grandfather Gerontius, who made it to 130 – and thanks to the Ring (and probably his own innate stubbornness) he made it to 131, before leaving for Aman where he would have eventually passed away. 

Just had a cute HC: Boromir survives the quest, and at the end he goes to Hobbiton to visit the hobbits every so often once they’re back home. Him with Sam and Rosie’s kids. All wide-eyed and ‘OMG what is this tiny small thing, I do not remember Faramir being this small’, holding a newborn baby hobbit because he’s a friend to all Hobbits thanks to what Pippin and the others said about him. Hobbit kids clinging to his legs and asking why his feet are so tiny.

(1)Oh god the ficlet with Thorin and the fauntling is so preeeecioooouuus *3* I imagine that, when Thorin moves to the Shire with Bilbo after handing the crown to Fíli some years after the quest (shhhh, nobody died), the little fauntling …

(2) … has grown into a pretty hobbit lass and still remembers how Thorin saved her! She asks Thorin to be at her wedding, and Bilbo is very cross with his husband that he didn’t tell him that he saved a fauntling when he got lost in the Shire x3

AHHH INJAAAA ❤

NOBODY GOT HURT, HAHAHA YES, THOSE ARE LIES SPREAD BY MORGOTH I am so thrilled you liked it, thank you! ! that nice Nonnie sparked an image of Thorin braced in a tree, with a shy little Hobbit lass tentatively poking at his shoulder, it was soooo cute, I had to write it!

AAaaaah! You know the best part about this idea…

it means that Thorin and Bilbo went to the wedding of Hamfast and Bell Gamgee. And I really freaking love that idea. (SMOL SAM WITH HIS HONORARY ODD UNCLES)