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My 5-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl. The first time she made this claim, I protested. Part of the fun of reading to your kids, after all, is in sharing the stories you loved as a child. And in the story I knew, Bilbo was a boy. A boy hobbit. (Whatever that entails.) But my daughter was determined. She liked the story pretty well so far, but Bilbo was definitely a girl. So would I please start reading the book the right way? I hesitated. I imagined Tolkien spinning in his grave. I imagined mean letters from his testy estate. I imagined the story getting as lost in gender distinctions as dwarves in the Mirkwood. Then I thought: What the hell, it’s just a pronoun. My daughter wants Bilbo to be a girl, so a girl she will be. And you know what? The switch was easy. Bilbo, it turns out, makes a terrific heroine. She’s tough, resourceful, humble, funny, and uses her wits to make off with a spectacular piece of jewelry. Perhaps most importantly, she never makes an issue of her gender—and neither does anyone else.
Bilbo Baggins is a girl: Until children’s books catch up to our daughters, rewrite them. (via sashimigrade)
Moving my LotR, Hobbit, Rings of Power fan webcomics to their own Tumblr blog - The Green Dragon Inn. Go check 'em out...
Sooo... i finished my door project, and there is officially nothing more to do in the Design and Architecture classes anymore. The door ended up nicely, not as planned ( but then it never does), and it is definitely a Hobbit door, though I honestly wouldn't mind having such a door myself.
I have this door assignment at school right now, and for some kind of reason I am much better at drawing Hobbit doors than real normal doors people would actually buy.... Maybe I was a Hobbit in my previous life, that would explain everything!! Why I have curls, love walking barefoot, like cooking and such. Oh my, what an amazing realisation!! Now I suddenly understand why 42 is the meaning of everything
How i love this soundtrack!
It is the perfect drawing music! Love it!
My illustration of @lisellelascelles 's fic, Weary is my brow beneath the crown for Thorin's Spring Forge 2025! I really enjoyed this event, and feel honored that my art can accompany such beautiful writing!! You can find more of their work here ☆
My illustration of @lisellelascelles 's fic, Weary is my brow beneath the crown for Thorin's Spring Forge 2025! just a little soggy is all. You can find more of their work here ☆
My illustration of @evadne01 's fic, It's all yours for Thorin's Spring Forge 2025! this story is so so cute and i had a wonderful time. You can find more of her work here ☆
@jonmartinweek day nine: "au day"
had to combine the boys with my otp of course
dragon practice with our fav golden plated guy
happy holidays, everyone! 🌟
I don't know what it is about coffeeshop AUs, I find them very christmassy! and a leather-wearing Thorin is also quite festive in its own merit, I'd say...
please come munch on the compilation/short comic for this AU: 🎁click here to read on AO3! 🎁
one broken stylus, twenty-two flower crowns, and *checks notes* eighteen hours later. happy holidays
Someone sedate me. I finally got around to making art of these two.
i have not caught a single fish in this game outside the tutorial
i think the sofa cuddling drawing thing is becoming a trend of mine
☆Prints☆
so i rewatched the hobbit-
Thank you so much Razzy! This is so beautiful! 💙
↳ NOW ON AO3!
Thank you so much for sending me this beautiful prompt, @dinchenrockt, I had such a fun time with it!! Also, thank you so much for your continued support, it is very much appreciated!!
So he went to Dwalin–a dwarf whose craft was bloodier than most, but Bilbo wasn’t sure who he could go to with such a request on his hands, and even if those hands of his shook something fierce, he would not be deterred from his course of action. Not this time. Items were fine and dandy, like stitched handkerchiefs and engraved wooden trinkets, but what he was asking for was something he would never lose.
“Dwalin?” Bilbo poked his head into the training arena, watching the burly dwarf smack at a dummy with one of his fists, a new (and better) set of knuckle-dusters coating his hands that were far more intimidating than the last. Bilbo didn’t squirm, even as Dwalin’s gaze settled on him. This was a friend and one that Bilbo felt comfortable with–much like family. “Might I trouble you in…helping me with something?”
“Aye.”
It was a simple and straightforward response, and for a moment Bilbo wished Dwalin had been wordier. “Yes, um, well…I was wondering if you might be able to help me secure…one of those…” Bilbo pointed a jittery hand towards Dwalin’s hands, not thinking to be a bit more specific.
The laugh that escaped Dwalin though was one of those sounds that Bilbo should have been delighted to hear. A belly laugh straight from the gut and echoing within the stone room they were currently conversing in. “A pair of these?” Dwalin held up his fists, clenching them tightly as if he were about to throw out a few jabs.
“What–no! Not those! Goodness knows I don’t plan on throwing hands anytime soon!” Bilbo fussed rather quickly, not even wanting to imagine him attacking anything with his bare hands as the burly dwarf might do.
While watching The Fellowship Of The Ring yesterday I - for the first time in like two hundred reruns - noticed that Bilbo drew a sketch of Thorin's Harp into his There And Back Again.
It seems he sketched and drew merely important bits like the Shire Map or some signature weapons of the Company ..
So .. he watched and listened to Thorin sing and play his harp and deemed it important enough to draw it into his book of the Quest.
I'm sobbing in a corner since then ..
This sounds like a good song for a funeral.
My friend shares a birthday with Wanderer (and Tolkien) so this was their birthday card this year
Yes this is late
I made this like a month ago when the Nintendo direct dropped. I had yet to actually upload it
These are the games I’m most excited for.
really just saw an online book blog say that Frodo was the main character of The Hobbit smh
It’s been almost twenty years, but I still tear up every time I hear the Hobbits’ theme played any time during the LotR and Hobbit soundtracks.
Absolute. Perfection.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved Ian Holm’s portrayal of Bilbo in the LotR trilogy, but it was really Martin Freeman’s rendition of the character that really made me fall in love with him, and let me finally finish The Hobbit book. I’d read LotR at ten years old and loved it, and despite trying to read The Hobbit, I simply couldn’t do get through it. Martin brought Bilbo to life for me that breathed life into him when I read the book and allowed me to understand the full beauty and fun of the character of Bilbo Baggins as written by the Professor.
50 y.o. Bilbo: You want ME to go on adventure? Jail for Gandalf! Jail for a thousand years!
130 y.o. Bilbo: I suppose I'm about to fight Satan.
(- Bilbo, no.)
Bilbo Baggins, (not) at your service.
I feel like Edge of Night was written by Bilbo, it's just make so much sense. He's definitely the hobbit who has songs for great halls and evil times.
Okay, hear me out. The Lord of the Rings…but they’re allowed to use curse words…
“They have a fucking cave troll...”
“I cannot jump the distance! You’ll have to fucking toss me!”
“Merry! It’s Frodo fucking Baggins!”
“Gods damn it…a Balrog of fucking Morgoth.”
“Fool of a fucking Took.”
“Bitch, please. I am no man.”
“Peregrin Took, you little shit!”
“By nightfall, these hills will be crawling with fucking orcs.”
“I think I’ve fucking broken something.”
“Your bodyguard?” “His fucking gardener.”
“I would cut off your head, you little shit, if it stood but a little higher from the ground.”
“You’re late…you look fucking terrible.”
“And for you Frodo Baggins…Elrond’s father in a fucking bottle.”
“PO-FUCKING-TA-TOES!”
Accountant AU where the reader works for a small town firm called “Istari Financial.” Making her living after coming home from college, looking after the books for the following local businesses…
The local vineyard, “Greenwood Acres” which has been around longer than anyone can remember, run by a single father as head of the business and a very dedicated team of young employees. Everyone from college hires to long time employees, but nobody in town can quite tell just how old anyone is.
A local business ring run by the Durinson Family who own nearly every business in town. The local brewery, the auto repair shop, the car dealership, the pawn shop, etc. They run everything as a family, but all answer to the head of the family, a bachelor who’s yet to get married as he’s “married to his work.” Though, he secretly has his eyes set on someone in town. Who though? Nobody knows…
The bakery at the center of town, called “Lorien Confection” where the man behind the counter greets customers, serves icecream and brags about his wife while the white witch in the kitchen rolls out goodie after goodie by the dozen of sugar-coated goodness. The baker earning the title of witch as she always seems to know what people want before they do.
The coffee/tea shop doubling as a wholistic whole foods store run by three best friends who rejected their respected posh lifestyles and struck out on their own straight out of college to bring clean, organic food to the town sourced from local farms. A store called “Three Hunters Whole Foods.”
A fish farming organization called “Bard & Son Fishery,” that works hard to protect local wildlife conservation run by a father of three which provides clean, non-gmo fish, hydroponic-grown greens, vegetables and strives to teach young people about respecting the planet and sustainable farming on field trips for the local elementary school.
And who could forget the local bar/restaurant, run by the Baggins family, Uncle and Nephew, along with their friends who provide an atmosphere of home and hearth hospitality to any and all who cross their threshold…right up until somebody asks them to host a party that doesn’t involve their catering.
And last but not least, the readers worst enemy, “Mordor Credit,” the local bank out to screw everyone over and take their businesses. The reader often times being the only thing standing between them and a hefty audit…or worse, an eviction…
