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I love the hobbit fandom so much but please, my loves, my sweet baby pebbles, please… stop using really bad metal working analogies
Work hardened/annealed=
When you want to soften a metal to make it more pliable you heat it, this is called annealing. This is done when something you are working gets work hardened or develops tenseness that makes it fragile
So like.. if you’re writing some Bagginshield smut or fluff like you do (ha) you could say “Bilbo seemed to anneal under the heat of Thorins hands”
You’re welcome
- your local dwarrow jeweler