#* &. bilbo baggins.

[atrustfulplace]

imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.

this is what happened to bilbo baggins

#i don’t think this has been done before??? #maybe it has if so sorry 😔 #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #gandalf #thorin oakenshield #lotr #jrr tolkien

[invisiblewashboard]

The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.

#jirt #jrr tolkien #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #Bilbo is a menace #change my mind

[thethirdromana]

I don't know if this was obvious to everyone else, but I just realised that one of the reasons why the Hobbit is so effective as a children's book is that while Bilbo is an adult, the skills that make him a hero are all those of a child.

By human standards he's child-sized, which makes him unobtrusive and light on his feet. He can slip by unnoticed where bigger people can't.

He's good at playing games, and even cheats (successfully!) in a way that - let's face it - is not so different to how children try to cheat at games. He's polite in a way that's fully comprehensible to children (rather than, say, being able to perform courtly manners). He's quick-witted, but the trick of keeping the trolls talking is also one that would be achievable for a child.

He doesn't have magic powers, he's not a great fighter, and he's not some kind of Chosen One. There's not much that he does that couldn't be done by a ten-year-old, but the story shows just how valuable all those skills and traits are. It's very empowering.

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

gay people can never say 'I love you' it's always gotta be some shit like "I have never been so wrong, in all my life"

#bagginshield #i was going to do the 'plant your trees watch them grow' speech but i am not in the mood to cry rn #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #thorin x bilbo #the hobbit #the hobbit movies

[seven-eyes]

king under the mountain (at least he was, for like two days)

#thorin oakenshield #thorin #the hobbit #digital art #artwork #illustration #king under the mountain #the line of durin #fanart #fan art #bagginshield #thorin x bilbo #bilbo baggins

[retellingthehobbit]

Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 16: The Song of the Lonely Mountain First chapter / Previous / Next

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*crumbles into dust after finishing this* Thank you for reading! This The Hobbit webcomic adaptation thing takes a lot of effort to put together and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate every comment. I also really appreciate the people who’ve spread the word of this comic to their friends! <3

And finally, we’re at the Song of the Lonely Mountain! Within Tolkien’s canon, The Hobbit is an in-universe book that was “written” by Bilbo Baggins, who occasionally lies/embellishes/exaggerates things. The tonal differences between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are explained by Bilbo and Frodo/Sam being different kinds of storytellers, with different relationships to “the truth.” This idea is the core of how I’m adapting the novel!  Bilbo is an unreliable narrator who is literally ‘drawing’ from his own limited experiences;  the different art styles reflect the different perspectives of other characters.   The “dwarf art style” in this chapter is inspired by stonework/metalwork in general— but especially by a mix of art deco, Celtic art, and European folk art. 

The central tension of the comic is between Bilbo and Thorin, who each have wildly different ideas about what kind of  story they’re in. Thorin is in a grand fantasy epic, while Bilbo is in a lighthearted children’s book adventure.  The tragedy is, obviously, that only one side of the story ever gets to be fully told.

On a sillier note, a few years ago I had my first gay crush on a lesbian who sang while playing the piano. This chapter is dedicated to the piano lesbian. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are. XD

I think I might need a bit of a break but I’m hoping for the next chapter, titled “Dawn,” to arrive on January 13th. And your comments/support really do help motivate me to get more done! ^_^

#lotr #the hobbit #bagginshield #the hobbit comic #retelling the hobbit #lord of the rings #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET #anyway *crumbles into dust* #the slowest burn bagginshield fic of all time??? #it will become canon in approximately 84 years #i would say its the most high effort fanfic in the hobbit fandom but ive got lots of competition for that #god works hard but Hobbit fans work harder and etc etc #long post

[ahhrenata]

when you catch your crush very obviously staring 🤭

| these two melted the shit out of my heart |

#binged the movies with my dad #every time Thorin smiles at bilbo it kills me #this is post-botfa..no sadness here! #just longing stares and blushing faces #I’m erasing the sad feels the movie has left me with #the hobbit #lotr #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #bagginshield #lotr fanart #bagginshield fanart #I’m entering a phase #misc fanart

[chardysstuff]

Bagginshield + Frodo out shopping on Black Friday 🛒💨(Lobelia’s nightmare)

#digital drawing #drawing #fanart #the hobbit bilbo #bilbo fanart #bilbo baggins #bagginshield #frodo baggins #frodo fanart #the hobbit thorin #thorin oakenshield #thorin fanart

[chechula]

Rivendell: Frodo in The House of Healing and Bilbo in the Hall of Fire ♥ (I prefer drawing landscapes over interiors ...but I wanted to give it a try *_* )

#tolkien #rivendell #frodo baggins #bilbo baggins

[verk0my]

lazy mornings

you can get a print here!

#bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thilbo #everyone lives au #lotr #tolkien #fanart #my art #verkomy #verkomy 2023 #procreate

[unicorngunter]

Happy 10th anniversary to my favourite part of The Hobbit trilogy!

AUJ anniversary art, support me with commission

#The hobbit #desolation of smaug #The hobbit dos #thorins company #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #Thilbo #Gandalf the gray #bard the bowman #Tauriel #Legolas

[amoebeau]

gandalf and bilbo my dear friends gandalf and bilbo

#im cringe but im free. grins real wide. #the hobbit #gandalf #bilbo baggins #my art #my friend asked where gandalfs big naturals went #he still has them somewhere

[smolestboop]

Bilbo 'Not Like Other Hobbits' Baggins

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #my art #bagginshield #i love him the girlboss to end all girlboss #i spent way too long on this hfdjgdkg #lotr #thorin oakenshield #smaug the dragon #smaug

[marinscos]

throwback to my bagginshield delusion era where thorin is FINE and they raise frodo together

#artists on tumblr #digital art #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #lotr fanart #lotr #the hobbit

[lllemonsoda]

The road goes ever on and on…

…and Thorin Oakenshield will pass into legend.

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #thilbo #bagginshield #tolkien #the hobbit fanart #illustration

[eglerieth]

Some of y’all are not appreciating Bilbo Baggins enough. I am here to remedy that. This guy has:

• somehow managed to establish himself as a respectable, staid hobbit by the time he was fifty, despite being both a grandson of Bullroarer Took and the Shire champion of pretty much every aiming-game known to hobbitkind

• had an in-depth debate on pleasantries with a random guy passing by in the street, who turned out to be GANDALF

• collapsed in front of his own fire shaking and muttering “struck by lightning” over and over again in response to hearing about dragons and danger

• mind you, this was after he screamed loud enough to startle a roomful of Dwarves

• signed up for a dangerous quest completely outside of his league out of spite

• when told to scout out a mysterious light, saw some trolls, and instead of reporting back with the information, decided to PICK THE TROLLS POCKET

• arrived in Rivendell for the first time and said it “smelled like elves”

• upon meeting a strange creature that visibly wanted to eat him, he decided to play a riddle game with him- and guessed pretty much every one, and made up his own riddles, afraid and alone, that not only were good and full of linguistic puns, but actually stumped the other guy- AND THEN CHEATED AND WON WITH A QUESTION

• showed mercy to said strange creature who wanted to kill him, and was now standing between him and freedom

• eavesdropped on the dwarves arguing over whether to try to save him, then popped up casually smack in the middle of them just as they were debating

• somehow managed to sleep like a log at the really really high eyrie full of wild predators

• found himself in a bad situation, said eff it, and turned around and antagonized and fought off an insane amount of man eating spiders, like enough of them that fifty was a small portion, by singing at them with incredibly complex and punny insulting songs composed on the spot, while simultaneously slaying them in multitudes despite having zero combat training. Seriously, we don’t discuss enough how epic the spider scene is.

• broke a company of dwarves out of the very secure prison of the Elvenking by inventing white water rafting with barrels

• charmed his way out of being eaten by a dragon

• stole the frickin Arkenstone from the guys who employed him, one of whom was a king

• took part in an epic battle, only to be knocked out in the first ten minutes and miss the entire thing

• was named elf-friend by the guy who’s prisoners he sprung

• wrote his own autobiography, complete with all the narrative recognition of his own heroics

• spent 60 years writing said autobiography

• taught his lower class neighbor’s kid how to read

• taught his nephew Elvish- not only Sindarin, but Quenya too

• spent decades telling his cousins his own story as fairy tales, complete with character impressions accurate enough that one of them was able to fool a servant of the Enemy with a second hand impression

• used the One Ring of Power to hide from his neighbors

• planned an elaborate feast with multiple social faux pas to mess with his neighbors, complete with a purposefully bewildering speech and culminating in him vanishing into thin air in front of everyone

• left his cousins and neighbors very unsubtle passive aggressive gifts in his will

• settled into Rivendell, randomly befriended the heir to the throne of like half of Middle Earth, and apparently spent his time writing very personal poems about his hosts and reciting them to crowds of elves

• after being invited to a Council of basically every major kingdom in the continent, spent a quarter of the time reciting vague poems about his friends, a quarter of the time telling anyone who would listen about his heroic past, and half the time interrupting to ask when lunch would be

• volunteered to bring the ring to Mordor

• became one of only four or five mortals in history to live in Valinor

Seriously, Bilbo Baggins may well be the most chaotic, insane person in the entire legendarium, and that includes the likes of people like Finrod “bit a werewolf to death to save the life of guy who he just met and gave up his kingdom for” Felagund.

#eglerieth #tolkien #lotr #silmarillion #lord of the rings #hobbits #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #bilbo