This is the love theme that I have chosen for Bilbo & Thorin.
When you have 3 minutes to spare, you can start thinking about these two and listen to “their” theme here.
This was really tough for me to search through my library of instrumental pieces from film scores to find something that fit our favorite dwarf/hobbit pairing. I’m sure not everyone will agree with my choice.
This piece is from the great 1947 film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (highly recommended), composed by the genius Bernard Herrmann.
I know the gentle and slow melody doesn’t fit the fiery tempers of either character. But I picked this as a leitmotif for their relationship, and the main reason is the amount of yearning and unfulfillment in it. It captures that sense of a slow burn doomed by tragedy to never fully blossom.
Mostly, it brings two images to my mind:
(1) Bilbo and Thorin in Lake-town the night before they head for Erebor, looking out and up at the mountain and talking about Thorin’s history there and his dreams for its future.
(2) Bilbo sitting in Bag End, remembering the dwarf he loved and all the things they said with their eyes but never with their words, and telling young Frodo about him.