#Arkenstone

[idontcarecarebear]

I think burying Thorin with the Arkenstone was kind of a dick move on behalf of the dwarves.

Imagine how gut wrenching it is for Bilbo to watch Thorin being buried with the thing he almost murdered Bilbo for taking, the thing that drove him to his madness, to his death and the death of his nephew’s.

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[msbilberry]

The night before the battle.

Dwarves in the Lonely Mountain: build fortifications, put on armor, choose weapons.

Meanwhile, Bilbo and co. in Thranduil's camp tent:

#bagginshield #ms bilberry #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #bilbo x thorin #thilbo #thorin x bilbo #erebor #lonely mountain #thranduil #bard the bowman #botfa #hobbit #king under the mountain #arkenstone #bilbo #thorin #dwarves #elves #elven king

[khorazir]

“Dwarvish still life”

Watercolour created as part of a logo for the Tolkien Thing, the annual meeting of the German Tolkien Society.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #tolkien art #tolkien illustration #dwarves #hobbit #thrors map #thrors ring #arkenstone #drawing #ink #watercolour #illustration

[ihobbit]

I think Bilbo was the greatest treasure in Thorin’s life, and definitely more important than the Arkenstone. This is proven by his behavior immediately after the showdown on the ramparts. The shock of being betrayed by Bilbo was overwhelming. The closest, the most beloved, the one whom Thorin trusted ABSOLUTELY. Thorin is dressed in armor and armed, but the most important thing is that now he knows exactly where the stone is - it is in Bard’s pocket! If the Arkenstone really was that important to Thorin, he would attack immediately! But Thorin suddenly doesn’t care. From this point on we hear nothing more about the Arkenstone. He goes into the throne room and just sits there, filled with pain and resentment. We must understand that Thorin has a difficult fate and hard life, and Bilbo became a real salvation for his wounded soul. And now he feels that he has lost the only one that was really important to him. And of course it's not a stone.

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[the-spirit-of-yore]

The Arkenstone par Ted Nasmith

#tolkien #middle earth #the hobbit #Arkenstone #smaug #ted nasmith

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

I forgot I made these a long time ago.

[8-21-2021]

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[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

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[stilltrails]

The Arkenstone being a Silmaril will always be my favorite hc, partly because it gets half of the fandom unreasonably mad for no reason, and secondly because it could work.

and i like to throw the feanorians in the mix whenever i can. like how cool would it be to chisel out an elf too

#the hobbit #arkenstone #thorin #maedhros

[glorfindelridesagain]

Bilbo (about Thorin): “I can fix him” this “I can make him worse” that, Pathetic. I can love him so much that it changes the course of the entire narrative.

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[theworldsoftolkein]

King Under the Mountain - by Sceith-A

#the arkenstone #arkenstone #thorin oakensheild fanart #thorin oakenshield #roac #erebor #the heart of the mountain

[arofili]

The Silmaril melted away in the fires of the earth.

It is no longer there; its power diffused into the heart of Arda. The piece of its maker that was trapped within was released, and the soul of the one who bore it down into its unmaking was set free.

But the earth remembered.

Some of that power dissipated into the soil, and great flowers and trees grew up, up, into the sky, reaching for the Star of High Hope that was their kin.

Some of that power escaped into the air, and echoes of song floated along the breezes, guiding lost travelers always, always to the sea.

Some of that power vanished into the waters, and shone upon pearls brighter and more beautiful than any seen before.

And some of that power was carried down, down, down into the forges of the world itself, and with time and pressure and heat was reshaped into something resembling its former self.

The Silmaril was not found in the mines deep below the Lonely Mountain. But a spark of its power did travel there, and settled into an ordinary gem, and by the skilled hands of the dwarves who delved there was made into a jewel worthy of a king.

The Arkenstone, the heart of the mountain: it remembers what once it was, the blood that was spilled for it, the power it wielded. Its echoes linger, like mournful songs carried along by sea-breezes.

The Arkenstone is not the Silmaril. It is not the same jewel for which Oaths were sworn and kin were slain. But it remembers. And those who hold it feel that history in their hands, and some part of them remembers, too.

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@funwithfanon fest day 2, fanon inversion

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[amadeusamantius]

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#art #fanart #hobbit #lotr #middle earth #digital art #digital fanart #bilbo baggins #smaug the dragon #arkenstone #sketch

[sawboyx3]

OH MY GOD. OKAY.

Sit down PREPARE YOURSELF.

Not only the reflection of Thorin with the Arkonstone and Bilbo with the Ring, but.

What if they became fucked up, together?

Corrupt Bagginshield save me....

#Evil lovers #evil gays #fucked up and evil #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #dragon sickness #Gold sickness #the one ring #Arkenstone #Call it DragonGold

[ihobbit]

The full range of Thorin's emotions during the showdown with Bilbo on the ramparts💔

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[acornsandoaktrees]

ok but Thranduil definitely thought Bilbo was a master burglar. the guy hanging out with the dwarves that miraculously got free of their cells shows up with the fucking Arkenstone.

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[ithrilyann]

“The Arkenstone, it’s this mystic rock that the Dwarves uncovered. It doesn’t essentially have power, it’s not something that’s gonna be able to melt tanks and blow things up. But it’s become so symbolic that it’s the only thing that will unite the seven Dwarf families who are scattered around Middle-earth”.

“Rather than just being a shiny stone or jewel we wanted the Arkenstone to be something quite special. Its uniqueness wasn't in its form, but in its properties. I think it might have been something Philippa [Boyens] said that sent us down the cosmic route with the design – thinking of it as a kind of seed of creation, a mirror of the beginning. Captured within it is some kind of hologram of what the universe looked like at the moment of its creation”. 

“We would look at photographs from the Hubble space telescope. That would give us the kind of reference that we were using for that sense of deep space that we see when we peer into the stone. And then Peter wanted that to sort of expand, sort of trail out into the air from the Arkenstone itself”

– Peter Jackson and his design team (from ‘The Hobbit: Art & Design’ and the BOTFA ‘Behind the Scenes’)

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Personally, I never quite liked it when in post-botfa AU fanfics the authors made Thorin destroy the Arkenstone. Like, to smash it with his hammer or cast it to the abyss – ‘cause having now freed himself from the dragon spell he’s tormented by remorse and cannot bear to look at it. This is unfair. The Arkenstone isn’t the One Ring, it does not contain evil in itself. It wasn’t the cause of Thorin’s dragon sickness, just a symbol that in his deluded mind he’s given too much significance to. This jewel is a marvelous object, a wonder of creation – almost a living thing, in the same sense that Feanor’s Silmarils were. It deserves to exist.

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