#and watched all of the Hobbit and LoTR so

[edwardallenpoe]

hey, I saw your take on soft Bilbo and wanted to know which Bagginshield fics you'd recommend? My best friend got me into The Hobbit, and I need their romance!

one of us! One of us!

I'd be glad to give you my recommendations! I've only read a couple so far, but honestly they're awesome first reads! Esp if you also struggle with remembering the company members names as much as me:') all of these are on Ao3 and post-BOFTA (everyone lives in these fics)

The first one I recommend is "Green-Handed" by @lotus0kid ! It was the first fanfic I read and it absolutely blew me away! It's about Bilbo's hobbit powers coming in for "no reason" and way too strong, it's sweet sweet slowburn as well, if you're into that:)

I've also learned I'm a huge sucker for cultural misunderstandings, it's probably something I picked up from Spirk lmao, but here's a couple that I loved:

•The Color Of Possibility - northern trash

•You Got Me - drunkonwriting

•To Feel You Like A Knife - queerofdagger (this one is super angsty but so so good)

And a couple that are specifically about hair! Hair, is super important in dwarvish culture so ofc I love the trope that Bilbo does a heinous act on his hair without realizing lol (tho, they do imply and talk about s/h, if you'r not comfortable with that, that's okay.)

•Splitting Hairs - orphan_account

•A Hairy Misunderstanding - amethystviolist

and one I'm reading right now is "An Unexpected Addition" by Karategal. It's about Bilbo going back to the Shire after taking back Erebor to sort out his affairs before officially moving, and he pickes up and adopts Frodo along the way. I'm not usually into fics that talk about lotr or Frodo because I haven't watched it yet and don't want to be spoiled, but this one is absolutely adorable so far, but be fairly warned- lots of gore, for some reason.

I hope you like these recs, my friend!! I really enjoyed reading these and they've endeared me further into these characters!

#Bagginshield #fic recs #Bagginshield fic recs #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin #thorin oakenshield

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

#lord of the rings #the hobbit #lotr #hobbit #yeah guys idk i just feel like most people read it really young #but jolkein is really wordy and idk how y'all got through that at 8 yo #my attention span could neverrrrrr #obviously not as wordy as like. les mis. but you know what i mean. #lots and lots of context all the time. love that for his worldbuilding not so much for my hold on the plot #and yes i have watched the movies #i didn't completely miss the cultural zeitgeist #yay first time making a poll! if you vote or read my tags this far you are a gem 🫶🏻 #edit: i realize i spelled tolkien wrong. i feel like this proves my point #but also i feel like thats something you spell with your heart and not your mind

[meteors-lotr]

Did you know, that there’s a total of six songs in The Hobbit?

“That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates”

“Misty mountains”

“There is an Inn, A merry old inn”

“Down in goblin town”

Gollum’s unnamed lil jig

“Down in the deep of Goblin Town”

Did you also know, that for a movie to qualify as a musical, it needs at least five songs?

Kind of an insane move, make the first movie of a trilogy a musical and then just drop the ball for the other movies

#The songs are all bangers too lol #Technically only the extended version counts as a musical #Cause some of the songs are cut #the hobbit #The hobbit the musical #which it CAN BE CALLED #Also I learnt today that there is an actual lotr musical #So I’ll be watching that later

[kierancaz]

“It is a gift. A token of our friendship.” No bitch that was a proposal.

#grow a pair Thorin and just admit it for what it was #you want to MARRY HIM #ik he’s going mad rn but every time Thorin smiles a Bilbo even the slightest my heart gives out a little #tbh I really love all the dwarves they’re so ????? #maybe it’s just bc I’ve watched the movie like 3 times a week for the last month but I love them all so much now #for reference I didn’t care that much about them when I watched for the first time #and on a slightly random note I wanna know more about Legolas mom ???? #back to bagginshield I wonder what their wedding would have looked like #IMAGINE THORIN WITH HIS ABSOLUTLY HUGE HANDS TRYING TO BRAID BILBOS HAIR BC THATS DWARVISH TRADITION #AND HES JUST STUGGLING SO HARD BC BILBOS HAIR IS SO SHORT AND HIS HANDS ARE SO BIG HE CANT GET A GOOD GRIP ON THE HAIR #bilbo: Thorin you don’t have to everyone alread knows we’re married #Thorin: NO I have to do this #he’s not a quitter. he’s never been a quitter. he’s not letting a few stands of hair beat him even if it IS bilbos hair #he has to teach bilbo how to braid tho bc he doesn’t know #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo x thorin #thorin x bilbo #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thorin and company #lotr dwarves #jrr tolkien #tolkien #fili durin #kili durin #fili and kili #thorin durin

[parkercore-69]

thank you J.R.R. Tolkien for writing the most devastating romantic subplot in your lotr books without even realising it

#im talking about sam and frodo sorry everyone #guess who like watched all the extended films and cried #whether you intepret sam and frodo’s love platonically or romantically you have to understand that they are so entwined that it is #devastating nonetheless #the forehead kiss #im on the ground sobbing #dawgs it was such a real depiction of how trauma is irreversible and will change you entirely #frodo baggins #i love him so fucking much guys #i love those little hobbits #samwise gamgee #lord of the rings #i could and most likely will write an essay on this #samfro #dawg sometimes love can be both platonic and romantic as queer love is not to be constrained by heteronormative values #sorry did i read too far into the little fantasy story #dude i was not expecting a story about the horrific effects of war racism and power corrupt addiction when i sat down in front of the telly #jokes on the side frodo looking absolutely miserable at sam’s wedding is so fucking real #i get it’s because he knows he cant move on and he is forever changed by his trauma but also that hobbit gay #his wound from the witch king never healing being a symbolic representation of his trauma FUCKS ME UP #frodo you may have been a whiny bitch at times but like yeah that ring probably did weigh a fuck ton and i was worse on my dofe expedition #i may be fucking too hard with lotr #lotr #teehee

[girlscience]

i am so goddamn tired of every single fantasy story being about men. i am so goddamn tired of women being side characters and love interests and set dressing and an afterthought. i am so goddamn tired of women who are powerful but feminine. women who are "dressed to kill" and they are wearing eyeliner and a dress and heels. i am so goddamn tired of women always being healers and having water magic. i am so goddamn tired of men going on adventures and dying nobly. i am so goddamn tired of never being able to find a story about women that i can fall in love with. i am so goddamn tired of all fandom being about men.

#i have spent the past several weeks becoming increasingly upset about this #hannibal? men. lotr/the hobbit? men. stargate atlantis? men. dragon age inquistion? men. one piece? men. #the handful of superhero's i periodically read about? men. transformers? men. every goddamn anime i've ever loved? men. #the witcher? men. fantasy anachronism? men. literally every single fantasy adventurer series? men. #it's men and men and men and men and men and men and men and men #i just want ONE. one single goddamn story about women that is as well written and well made and as deep as everything else #i want ONE story about a women or women who are noble and honorable and fight in the face of impossible odds #and i don't want them to be pretty and small and feminine #make them hairy and fat and muscular and tall and wear steel toed boots and carry swords and fight monsters and sleep in the woods #and eat stew and carry heavy packs for long distances and be intelligent and sneaky and cowardly and fearful and brave #make them laugh and cry and scream and fall in love and write poetry and books and songs #make them wrestle and pick on each other and pull each others hair and sit around campfires #MAKE THEM GODDAMN PEOPLE #there are books out there about women going on adventures. they exist. i've read some #but they are not the majority and they never get big #and so many end up being poorly written or a romance or a combo of the two #i don't WANT to have to read genderbends just to read about women #i don't want to scroll tumblr and just see men on my dash #all i have ever wanted my whole life is to be a fantasy adventurer. and none of them. not ONE of them looks like me #i am tired of watching youtube critiques of fantasy shows/movies/stories and them just shitting on the women characters #i am just so tired of it

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

the funny thing, to me, about movie theaters refusing to show any other edition of lotr but the extended editions is that it makes the movies so long that you kinda have to get up and go pee at least once and in that time frame you are missing out on the scenes they added back in so what is the point i ask you there is no point please show the normal movies for us folks with bladders and limited time

#lotr #i HATE the extended editions being supposedly better it's not TRUE some of that shit was cut for a REASON #the reason the extended editions were good at all was the DOZENS of combined hours of behind the scenes footage and documentary style #stuff that came WITH the dvd which you dont even get digitally anymore and you DEFINITELY dont get by going to the movie theater #so AGAIN i ask you what is the point #in this household we care about time and efficiency so if we do a full lotr + hobbit marathon we watch #the 1977 hobbit movie fellowship of the ring most of the two towers then the 1980 rotk #which is a long afternoon and evening but it is ONLy an afternoon and evening plus they SING in half of those so you get extra endorphins

[hella1975]

if i get one more damn sam and frodo edit on my fyp im ending it all i mean it this time

#OR CHRIST HOLDDDD ME LIKEEEE A KNIFEEEE #THEYRE SO UNREAL UNEARTH DONT DO THIS TO ME #I NEED TO REWATCH LOTR. DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN ID JUST WATCH ALL OF LOTR AND THE HOBBIT #AND BY THE TIME ID WATCHED IT ALL IT WAS SO MANY HOURS OF CONTENT THAT I WAS ABLE TO JUST DO IT ALL AGAIN AND I DID THAT LIKE. FIVE TIMES #I MISS THAT ERA (THE MEDIA ACTIVELY MAKES ME WANT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT) #we set out to save the shire sam and we did BUT NOT FOR ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #PEOPLE DIEDDDD. AND TOLKEIN’S BACKGROUND WITH WAR AND WHAT THAT MEANS ABOUT ALL THOSE BOYS WHO COULD NEVER QUITE COME HOME EVEN IF THEY DID #STOP IT STOP STOP MAKE IT STOP #lotr

[nomaishuttle]

i loveeee ignoring my problems and saying thats for a later me and ik everybody does this but its funny when its me bc afternoon connor is fr a different person than bedtime connor or work connor so when im like laundry... thats a problem for afternoon connor ^_^ it truly is not my problem and its quite awesome.

#left myself a note last night like hey gorgeousss your laundry is in the dryer Just dump it on the bed and afternoon connor will deal with #it... ok allyyy ty. sry 2 afternoon connor tho sucks 2 be him LOL. 2nd class citizen in connor world #but also he gets to fuck around like 4ever and ever sooo hell be fine. been thinking abt watching lotr... i turned the books back into the. #library bc they were due and i had barely started th first one 😭😭 i rly liked the hobbit idk why my brain wouldnt let me read actual lotr #i mightve just been reading too much bc ive had trouble getting motivation to read at all. so maybe ill try again in a few months but i #think m.gonna watch rhe movies first i hope thats not blasphemous... #but anyways ya i think thats why i get so Evil shadows skull on the eay to and from work bc its like. changeover. morning connor clocking #out of his shift as connor for me to clock in and then me clocking out for afternoon connor yk. #and then we get the weird 7-10 pm phantom zone where afternoon connor and bedtime connor wage bloody war against eachother

[starrbeast]

i’ve always thought smaug looked silly (in a good way) and i couldnt place why but i just realized it’s cuz he literally goes òwó

#i really love lotd and the hobbit bro #we watched lotr so much when i was a kid #granted those was the only movies we could afford but still #they mean a lot to me ghejfijef #lotr #the hobbit #siren song #smaug #also i love smaug because i too really love gold and sleep all the time #and i also go òwó

[justiceforboromir]

The fact that they now keep watch in pairs…

The hobbits can’t ignore the danger anymore, because they have to watch for it themselves

Strider can’t protect them alone anymore, so he has to trust them (and that must be so difficult).

It says so much about how their attitudes have changed, they can’t sleep freely anymore.

#i wonder if strider sleeps now #or does he just insist on still keeping watch all night #the way that the hobbits are so on edge :((( #and this is only the start of their journey :((( #lotr #lotr newsletter

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I’m sat here crying at the ending of Return of The King 😭😭 no matter how many times I watch it when Frodo leaves I sob

#merry and pippin watches their older cousin leave 😭 #and sam looks so broken by it #but all three know that frodo needs to go and that he can heal now #the relationship between the four hobbits is so beautiful #the lord of the rings #lotr #frodo baggins

[technicalthinker]

warning ya'll that i rewatched the hobbit+lotr, all 6 movies, over the weekend and i'm now like. I GUESS IT'S TIME TO GO INTO MY ANNUAL TOLKIEN PHASE. I LOVE THESE MOVIES AND MIDDLE-EARTH SO MUCH TIME TO BE INSANE ABOUT IT.

#amanda rambles #it is just!!!! IT IS JUST SO SPECIAL IN MY HEART HUH!!! #lotr is like SO perfect and what i fell absolutely in love with and changed the trajectory of my existence lowkey #the hobbit was SUCH an influence in my teens and ive been through it with that trilogy but nOW I JUST. LOVE SO MUCH ABOUT IT. #IT IS SO SPECIAL I GOT TO SEE IT IN CINEMA AND FALL IN LOVE WITH IT OVER AND OVER AND JUST #man these 6 movies are rly like. yeah. #it is A LOT to watch them all together but it adds to the experience #and watching fotr right after botfa is like. the only way to watch botfa and not be depressed for a week+ lmao

[perplexities]

doris got me into lord of the rings after years of avoiding it so it will now be my current obsession and part of my personality for this next unprecedented lump of time :)

#everyone blame doris!!!!!!! #my dad was obsessed and is still obsessed w the entire lotr trilogy #and i never paid it no mind #like never watched it in full #only saw parts here and there and fell asleep during the hobbit when my dad dragged me to it in theatres #but bitch im on the two towers and now im INVESTED #also i do anything my wife says bc hi hello she’s everything 2 me #Frodo and Sam………. y’all mfs gay #also why are all the elves made to be so fuckable? #doriscore

[kierancaz]

Faramir deserves all the love in the world and I hate his dad

#lotr faramir #probably a very common fandom take but like #i just realized how BAD it was for him bro #when I’m paying super close attention all these characters stories get SO DEPRESSING #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #faramir #lotr boromir #boromir #about to watch the Sam and Frodo break up to damn

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Controversial opinion: so far I have enjoyed Rings of Power and will continue to watch it.

#I have hobbit in my url so I know you've been waiting for le to comment #Rings of power #<- the hashtag I'll be using for all related content if you want to blacklist it #I don't buy the argument that watching or not watching tRoP is somehow going to make or break Amazon's evil empire #Deeply tedious #post o' mine #lotr