Vimes’ thoughts on “Us vs Them” in Jingo is my favorite and one of the reasons why Jingo is my favorite book
You know, I’ve been thinking about Jingo so much recently. I guess current events are always bringing it back around. Vimes has so many good bits in that one; Jingo is just bursting with Big Deal Moments.
And then he realized why he was thinking like this.
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to
imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by
privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this
sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the
fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who
brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of
then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It
was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to
think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s
fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all I’m one of Us. I
must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
Thorin Oakenshield slowly wakes to the sounds of Bilbo and his nephews softly talking, colder and heavier than he has ever been in his life, but before he can get a word out Bilbo is punching him square on the nose. Quite rightly, as it turns out, because he’s been dead for a week and has just sat up in his tomb with no warning whatsoever.
Following the aftermath of the Battle of the Five Armies where Thorin must fight with his own guilt and mind over his choices and what they mean and meant, where he must decide whether or not to rule, and how to live with himself after dying. Focusing on many different characters and relationships, as well as building on the lore of Erebor and Middle Earth. A story about coming home.
Bagginshield | Kíli/Tauriel | Gimli/Legolas | Thranduil/Elrond | Thranduil/Bard | Dwori | And many more probably | Everyone lives au | Fix-It | Fake Marriage |Thorin in the Shire | Mental health |Angst |Pining |Fluff |Smut | And many many more tags to come as they happen most probably | Slow Build | Slow Burn | Happy ending | Diverse genders / sexualities / neurotypes | Lots of Angst | Loads of pining
Aw Yiss 