THILBO REQUESTES by cielo! make a request you too!
‘He sounds like a very strange creature, this thief of yours,’ said a young Dwarf called Fili (Thorin’s nephew, as I afterwards learned). ‘What is his name, or the one that he uses?’
‘Hobbits use their real names,’ I said. ‘The only one that he has is Bilbo Baggins.’
‘What a name!’ said Fili, and laughed.
Gandalf’s account of the Quest of Erebor, Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
‘Poor Thorin! He was a great Dwarf of a great House, whatever his faults; and though he fell at the end of the journey, it was largely due to him that the Kingdom under the Mountain was restored…’
Gandalf’s account of the Quest of Erebor Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (via woodland-realm-wandering)
someone needs to talk to me about how gandalf’s retelling of thorin dying is to say “poor thorin”
My bagginshield feels have come back full force and I still can’t get over how utterly gay the hobbit movies are they’re like a damn disney movie
Case and point:
Two people who initially have a bit of a rocky start, mainly due to the taller grumpyish one
Then one of them risks their life to save the other
Which brings about a mutual respect between them
And a friendship begins to blossom
Then they’re separated and the not-so-grumpy anymore one has to fight the bad guy
They manage to kill the bad guy, but not before being mortally wounded. The other one had been desperately trying to reach them but didn’t get there in time
The dying one states that they’re glad the other is there and begin to say goodbye. The other replies that everything is going to be fine and not to say otherwise but then watch the other slip away.
But then a final declaration of love breaks the spell and the dying one is brought back to life and everything is magical and they live happily ever after
!!!! I wholeheartedly agree, Thorin does have PTSD. (I think @yubiwamonogatari wrote some about this while i was on my tumblr hiatus and i bet her opinions on the subject are very real and true.)
Even without “evidence” in the films, it’s very easy to reason that Thorin would have PTSD. Look at the traumatic life experiences he’s been through – the dragon attacks and takes Erebor when Thorin is only (i believe) 24 years old, which is practically childhood for Dwarves. Thorin fights in the bloodiest battle in Dwarven history when he’s in his early 50′s, loses his younger brother, his father, and his grandfather/king all in one day, and has to shoulder the burden of leading his people when he’s still so very young, barely of age to do so. And that’s only what we know about. These traumatic experiences are going to alter him and stay with him and change him, and he’s going to struggle to overcome negative feelings and fear for a long time.
Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Durin’s Sons thundered: ‘Forward, the Company! Charge for the Orcs’ he said: Into the valley of Death Durin’s Sons thundered.
‘Forward, my Company!’ Did they so fearfully? Not tho’ the Dwarves knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Durin’s Sons thundered.
Orcs to right of them, Orcs to left of them, Orcs in front of them Pillaged and plunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and sword, Boldly and in accord, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Durin’s Sons thundered.
“Since they were to come in the days of the power of Melkor, Aulë made the Dwarves strong to endure. Therefore they are stone-hard, stubborn, fast in friendship and in enmity, and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples; and they live long, far beyond the span of Men, yet not forever.”
Aw Yiss 