Tag: hobbit

So @snapdragonroar and I were talking about inconsistencies between Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and one of the most glaring ones, especially to people more familiar with the film universe, is that Gandalf (as the bearer of an Elven Ring of Power and just generally an all-around smart dude) didn’t figure out sooner that Bilbo’s quirky little magic ring of invisibility is in fact The One Ring of great doom, destruction, and all-around badness. 

But let’s cut Gandalf some slack here and point out just how insane that realization would be. 

The closet equivalent I can come up with is like… ok listen, you know this kid (because everyone’s a kid to Gandalf) who has a lucky arrowhead he found on a hike one day in England. And the arrowhead may have some historical value, but it’s probably only a century old at most and is ultimately just a nice trinket. You are happy for the kid that he found a cool arrowhead that he treasures, but you probably don’t think about it very much.

… Only to discover years later that this is no mere arrowhead, but in fact (wait for it) the tip of the Spear of Longinus which pierced the side of Christ 2,000 years ago, thought lost to the entire world, frequently copied and imitated but never truly rediscovered and certainly not expected to be found somewhere on a hiking trail in England just lying around, and this is in fact A Spiritual Artifact of Enormous Significance with potentially the power to change the world, and the only reason you’re even thinking about the Spear of Longinus at all is because weird End of Days shit has begun to happen and you notice, idk, a tiny carving on this kid’s arrowhead but it’s not like you were LOOKING for the Spear of Longinus, no one is because it went missing 2,000 years ago and it’s a frankly insane thing to expect to turn up in some kid’s pocket one day. 

So for that, I give Gandalf a bit of leeway, because in context, the One Ring showing up on the world stage when it did–in the Shire of all places, having been adored for 500 years by a weird fishman in a cave before your cute little hobbit friend won it with a riddle game and used it on his plucky little adventures–is kind of totally bonkers. 

captain-flint:

“I think the burden of taking his people back to their homeland, which is so massive, makes him a lonely figure, I think. Knowing that his grandfather failed, and his father failed, so if he doesn’t do it, there’s no other member of his line that will ever do this. So he will continue through history as the king that failed to achieve the potential for his people. That’s something, again, which is a huge burden to carry. And I think that’s what drives him, but it’s also the thing that he fears, that he will fail.”  – RA

Notice that little bubble of pride burst every time someone doubts him and his face slumps in defeat because it’s not like he’s carrying a mountain worth of self-doubt on his shoulders already ahaha i’ll be in my corner

Thistle and Weeds (14192 words) by Avelera
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: The Hobbit – All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin’s Company, Gandalf | Mithrandir, The One Ring
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Eventual Happy Ending, Angst, Chases, The One Ring is Bad News, Dwarven Rings of Power, Haunting, Love, Metamorphosis, Nazgul – Freeform, Wakes & Funerals, Nazgul Thorin, Slow Build, Mind Control, Possession
Summary:

The Battle of the Five Armies is over, Fili has been crowned, and Thorin laid to rest with the Arkenstone and his father’s ring. It is time for Bilbo to make the long, grief-stricken journey back to Bag End, leaving his heart buried within the Mountain.

But the ring he carries has awakened greater forces. Bound together by fate and rings of power, Bilbo finds himself haunted upon the road by Thorin’s memory, and by something far worse.

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Unfortunately I may need to take a brief break from the weekly posting schedule after this, as I’ve reached the limits of the draft written. BUT! We’re just about half way and I think this chapter will be a treat for all of you :3

I almost regret not being in undergrad anymore because fandom has made me so much better and faster at writing essays than I was back then, like damn writing those felt insurmountable back when I had to do one or more a week but nowadays it’s like, “Bored? Drinking my coffee? I know, I’ll bang out 5 pages on the how the economy of a fictional dwarven city functions in a CGI nightmare of a film trilogy based on a 100-page children’s book. For fun.”

The Hobbit

stuckinabucket:

So, the Hobbit.  We finally got to go see the Hobbit.

You know that bit at the end, after Bilbo goes all Samwise Gamgee on the orc that’s trying to decapitate Thorin, and then Thorin’s all “You nearly got yourself killed. Did I not say you would be a burden? That you would not survive in the wild? And you had no place amongst us?  COME HERE AND LET ME HUG YOU BECAUSE I WAS BEING AN ASSHOLE.”?  I almost lost it like twice during that little speech, because it’s just like “Thorin.  Thorin.  Thorin.  You pretty much nailed it.  He stabbed that orc like thirty times and then apologized to its corpse.  He’s gonna survive the wild in roughly the same state as that sheep that went rogue for a few years down in New Zealand.”

Like, “Raaaaaaaaaaaaa!” *stabbity stabbity stabbity stabbity stabbity* *stagger away, dazed* *mutter “Sorry!” under breath* “OH SHIT ALL THE REST OF THE WARGS!”

Fucking hobbits, man.  Just never let them out of the Shire.  They’re no good at adventures.  There are all sorts of cut-scenes from the Lord of the Rings where it’s the four of them standing in front of a burning inn going “Sorry!” in stereo.