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Does anyone know what would happen if a dwarf put on the One Ring? I’m looking for a Tolkien scholar here, not just an opinion. 

(I believe they’re resilient to change from the outside so they wouldn’t go invisible. I also have an instinct that LotR says somewhere that they could shrug off the effects of its corruption more easily than almost anyone, but would like confirmation.)

Pretty sure it would do the same as one of the Seven, but to a greater extent mentally. Physically, the Dwarves are too rooted in the world for it to turn them invisible or have any physical effect, though it may extend their life. The Seven are the same as the Nine, but all those did was make them more greedy and angry. Since the One is basically the same but way more powerful, I’m pretty sure the effects would just be maginified.

Thank you! This is very helpful.

Unfortunately I thought I had a really cool idea for a scene where one of the dwarves does try on the One Ring during the Hobbit era, and doesn’t turn invisible. But I’m also wrestling with the fact that even though the Ring was dormant during that time and probably wouldn’t have much impact at all if Bilbo got it back immediately, the reader would most likely be obsessing over the Ring as a plot device and wondering what happens, when all I really want the scene for is a bit of a joke. So I’m thinking I may just need to leave such a scene out entirely because it’ll cause too much confusion.

I did actually read a fic where the author touches on the not invisible thing briefly, and Thorin falls under the Rings thrall for a minute. It may not work as a joke, but it’s definitely floating around.

That was probably @mithen‘s Clarity of Vision, if I recall correctly (an excellent fic). It’s kind of a shame that the Ring looms so large in everyone’s mind, because when The Hobbit was written it really was just intended to be an invisibility ring, and that concept is woven into the fabric of the story. It really does take decades for the Ring to wake up enough to be anything more than a harmless party trick, but every time I’ve used it as device in fics it’s caught the reader’s attention as a dire threat, which is a shame because of all the fun one can have with the power of invisibility in a story.

Question: could it be argued that the ring, though dormant, could awaken should it sense the possibility of finding a will it could control? I’m asking because if this happened say, post-locating the arkenstone, right when thorin is under the thrall of the gold sickness, it could make for a very interesting turn of events. It’s a suggestion for op and I was curious to see how it’d hold up against lore.

could the One Ring help explain why Bilbo was so ready to rationalize stealing the Arkenstone? (in the novel) he’d worn it for a long time by then (thanks to the whole elvish dungeons thing), and it wasn’t as dormant as you might think, given it still managed to abandon Gollum.

Bilbo rationalizing that the stone could be his share, when he knew the dwarves would never accept anyone else having it.. seems so out of character for him.

Now THAT is something I could absolutely get on board with as an interpretation. It’s a great point that the Ring decided to leave Gollum because it realized he wasn’t going anywhere out of that mountain, so it was in fact active, though I believe Tolkien mentions that it very badly was hoping to end up with a goblin instead and the whole Forces Besides the Will of Evil thing is it getting to Bilbo instead of one of those goblins.

What I like most about this point is that it distinguishes between book and movie canon. Yeah, in the book, Bilbo’s motivations around taking the Arkenstone are not 100% pure, in fact the whole bargaining chip use for it was not something he could have planned in advance, he really did take it out of greed, and it is weird that he keeps it even knowing how badly Thorin wants it. They changed that in the film so his motivations are entirely altruistic by adding Smaug’s warning and Thorin’s sickness.

Bilbo also goes on to lie that he won the ring from Gollum fair and square in a riddle contest (ie, the first published edition of the hobbit book) and only later it came out that he stole it then did the riddle game to escape (the second edition of the hobbit book, lol) so it definitely was changing his behavior back then, but mostly causing him to lie about his possessions, and arguably, to hoard things. Very interesting!

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Does anyone know what would happen if a dwarf put on the One Ring? I’m looking for a Tolkien scholar here, not just an opinion. 

(I believe they’re resilient to change from the outside so they wouldn’t go invisible. I also have an instinct that LotR says somewhere that they could shrug off the effects of its corruption more easily than almost anyone, but would like confirmation.)

Pretty sure it would do the same as one of the Seven, but to a greater extent mentally. Physically, the Dwarves are too rooted in the world for it to turn them invisible or have any physical effect, though it may extend their life. The Seven are the same as the Nine, but all those did was make them more greedy and angry. Since the One is basically the same but way more powerful, I’m pretty sure the effects would just be maginified.

Thank you! This is very helpful.

Unfortunately I thought I had a really cool idea for a scene where one of the dwarves does try on the One Ring during the Hobbit era, and doesn’t turn invisible. But I’m also wrestling with the fact that even though the Ring was dormant during that time and probably wouldn’t have much impact at all if Bilbo got it back immediately, the reader would most likely be obsessing over the Ring as a plot device and wondering what happens, when all I really want the scene for is a bit of a joke. So I’m thinking I may just need to leave such a scene out entirely because it’ll cause too much confusion.

I did actually read a fic where the author touches on the not invisible thing briefly, and Thorin falls under the Rings thrall for a minute. It may not work as a joke, but it’s definitely floating around.

That was probably @mithen‘s Clarity of Vision, if I recall correctly (an excellent fic). It’s kind of a shame that the Ring looms so large in everyone’s mind, because when The Hobbit was written it really was just intended to be an invisibility ring, and that concept is woven into the fabric of the story. It really does take decades for the Ring to wake up enough to be anything more than a harmless party trick, but every time I’ve used it as device in fics it’s caught the reader’s attention as a dire threat, which is a shame because of all the fun one can have with the power of invisibility in a story.

Question: could it be argued that the ring, though dormant, could awaken should it sense the possibility of finding a will it could control? I’m asking because if this happened say, post-locating the arkenstone, right when thorin is under the thrall of the gold sickness, it could make for a very interesting turn of events. It’s a suggestion for op and I was curious to see how it’d hold up against lore.

I think if a fic writer wanted to explore that, they should feel free to because it’s not impossibly far outside the lore.

That being said, if anything, the One Ring should have been at its relative weakest at that time, because of the events at Dol Guldur. The Ring’s strength and malevolence is based on its connection to Sauron, and since Sauron was banished by the White Council at that point and took decades to regain his strength in Mordor, the Ring wouldn’t have been very potent at all. 

Also, if the One Ring could be said to have a conscious will and choice of who it goes to, a dwarf would be its last choice, because of their resilience to corruption. The nature of the One Ring is extremely unclear, ironic given its centrality to the plot, but in general those with power are its primary targets, which is why Frodo and Sam were so resilient (Sam arguably more so than Frodo, though he also bore it for a much shorter time). 

Of the people present in the Hobbit, someone like The Master or Alfrid would likely be its ideal, followed by Bard though that would take more work. Thranduil might ironically not be a good choice because he has no desire for outside dominance but is in fact an isolationist, but then again he might be just as vulnerable as Galadriel for having much of the same motivations as her. Thorin under dragon sickness would indeed be a very tempting target (if we’re speaking movie canon, because dragon sickness is totally different in the book), I was more saying that biologically dwarves are a bad choice for the Ring. 

But overall I’d say the Ring was still too dormant at the time to be actively seeking anyone. Also keep in mind, it was seeking someone who would take it back to Sauron, not just someone it could control. Again it’s unclear, but the Ring makes people act like Sauron because I think it’s a bit like a phylactery for a lich, it holds a piece of him, but it’s not trying to make copy Saurons ultimately as much as its trying to be reunited, the copy-Saurons is more of a side-effect? But don’t quote me on that part because I’m not totally clear on it. 

Basically, I’d argue that if the Ring didn’t jump at meeting the Master of Lake-town, or heck, one of the goblins in Goblin Town, it wouldn’t jump at Thorin. It really did take the Nazgul being sent out I think for it to begin to reach back for Sauron in return, until then it was just a low-grade toxic influence, and keep in mind Bilbo held it for 60 years and was still able to freely give it up, and in the books it was another 20 years before Frodo went on his quest, so it is a very slow corruption process until just before Sauron starts acting up in Mordor right before LotR begins when he goes all-out looking for it. Just my two cents.

And just to clarify, I don’t mean to imply that I think a new LotR series would be doomed from the outset to be bad. Nor am I saying that I wouldn’t be optimistic for it, watch it, and likely fangirl over it. 

I just think it’s going to be a very tall order for that production team, and I do not envy them (though if they’d like my resume I’d be sure to send it in lol). LotR is such a cultural phenomenon that it’s going to be nearly impossible to not be influenced. Everything from costumes, to set design, to performance has ingrained itself not only into people’s minds but it has become part of the visual language of fantasy works in general – the very use of art noveau for Elves and art deco for Dwarves basically comes from the PJ films, and PJ used the original illustrators for the LotR books on his production team. 

To create a new visual language that doesn’t invite comparison to PJ’s films alone is a massive mountain to climb, though of course I’d be curious to see what they’d come up with, and every day I see fantastic fan artists who do amazing re-interpretations of the books. But to do enough of it, on a scale that feels as deep and textured as PJ? PJ’s Middle Earth felt like a real place you could actually go to, and that was based on thousands of hours of production team work. It’s dizzying to imagine the scale of the work set before a new team to try to match that without simply copying it. Even PJ’s format borrowed from the cartoon of LotR, with the flashback to Sauron’s fall at the beginning to serve as a prologue to the work (check it out sometime, if you haven’t) and heavily draws from the cartoon’s Moria sequence too. 

I am totally open to, and excited for, a glimpse of what a totally different team would do (more diversity, certain *ahem* dwarven characters taken more seriously, a new look and feel for the world) but damn if it doesn’t seem like a Herculean task to match those films, much less exceed them.

So after finally writing last night after a many-month long dry spell, I feel like I’m fumbling my way towards a new theory on writing – specifically how writing lessons and tips interact with the process of writing. Here goes:

Contrary to popular belief, writing tips are not meant for the process of writing as many people think of it. What most people think of as writing is the first draft. However, tips like “how to use/not use adverbs” “do xyz with your characters” “avoid these pitfalls” are not of any use during the writing process, that of writing the first draft, and during that period they should be forgotten. 

The confusion comes from comparing writing to other arts. By comparing writing to, say, playing a musical instrument, or creating visual art like drawings or sculptures, we are jumping too far forward into the process. Writing a first draft is not the equivalent of performing a piece, or of drawing a picture necessarily. 

A more apt comparison would be to use sculpting from clay. But writing isn’t the act of sculpting, of beginning to create the form you envision in your mind. Rather, writing the first draft is the point where the writer is literally creating the clay they are going to work with. 

As you practice as a writer, you get more adept at figuring out how much clay you’re going to need, and lumping it together in a shape that will save effort later, maybe, though you will still make mistakes and often need to start over. 

After your clay is produced, after the first draft is complete, then you can begin to apply writing lessons. That’s when you should be critical of yourself, of the clay, of how to make it something better. And this is a process of many refinements. But to be worrying about how to carve the clay before it is produced – trying to edit before your first draft is complete – is counterproductive.

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the aesthetic of american far right christianity is horrifying

run-down signs screaming about hell in the middle of nowhere is my aesthetic though

You don’t know true pants-shitting fear until you’re driving in the middle of nowhere, not a single sign of civilization as far as the eye can see, haven’t seen another living being in three hours, and then out of nowhere suddenly looms a half-destroyed barn with the words “HELL IS REAL” painted on what remains of the roof.

I’ll be honest, you could say most of these were from a horror game and I wouldn’t doubt you. 

Implying America isn’t a horror game lately.

America isn’t a game. It is just a horror.

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Visible from i-40, between Interstate 40 and old Route 66, the Groom, TX cross

Englewood Ohio

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#i feel like you would appreciate this

YEP.

hey so fun fact about that last one

it’s located right by the I-75 highway and anyone driving in or out of cincinnati could see it from the road and it was horrifying the first time i saw it because i felt like i was about to die.

the statue was called king of kings, but i only ever heard it referred to as touchdown jesus. just imagine yourself kicking a football through those lofty open arms…..ohio 1, satan 0.

in 2010 touchdown jesus was very sadly struck by lightning and burned down, possibly because so many heathens were calling him touchdown jesus and imagining playing football with the lord. or possibly because that’s just what happens when you build a giant styrofoam and fiberglass statue next to an artificial pond on a hill in the middle of rural ohio.

fortunately our good friends down in englewood have contingency plans for god’s wrath and the end of the world, so they built a new statue named lux mundi. unfortunately, lux mundi is not as amped to play football.

but he does look like he’s down for hugs.

RIP, touchdown jesus. we miss you. 😢

The skeletal remains of touchdown Jesus is one of the more horrifying things I’ve seen.

I’m glad someone took the time to share the glory that is touch down jesus. Bless.

My favorite thing about the dystopian christianity of the bible belt is that its always interspersed with signs for adult emporiums

Sign *SEX SEX SEX*
Sign “REPENT SINNER”
Sign “LIONS DEN ADULT GOODS”
Sign “Culvers next two exits, more cheese curds than you need in your entire life
Sign “GOD WAITS FOR YOU CHILD”
Sign *blond woman positively bursting out of her nighty* “MORE PORN THAN ANYWHERE AROUND”

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So I just started my short story writing class! These are dialogue tips

reference later

These are great tips but I’m going to push back a little on point #3, “keeping exposition out of dialogue.” Yes it is awkward to have a character stand up and give a long history lesson in stilted language as an alternative to a wall o’ text, and it isn’t all that much better.

That being said, in my own writing class on writing sci-fi/fantasy the recommendation was rather that the author should be as clever as possible with exposition, and that might include dialogue. 

Especially for sci-fi and fantasy writing, a great deal of exposition is often needed just to get readers up to speed with the unique rules and history of your world. Sure, you can have the long Star Wars crawl at the beginning where you say the current state of the galactic empire, but it’s also possible through dialogue, amongst other writerly tricks, to convey that information without the audience even realizing that they received it. 

“Get your crude cop’s hand away,” Iran said.

“I’m not a cop.” He felt irritable, now, although he hadn’t dialed for it.

“You’re worse,” his wife said, her eyes still shut. “You’re a murderer hired by the cops.”

“I’ve never killed a human being in my life.” His irritability had risen now; had become outright hostility. 

Iran said, “Just those poor andys.”

This from the opening page of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K Dick and there is a ton of information conveyed in that tiny snippet of dialogue. We know this couple is on bad terms, we know the wife sees her husband as a murderer but he does not see himself as one. We know he doesn’t see himself as murderer because he has never killed a human, but his wife has sympathy for “andys”, which we can reasonably assume are androids based on the title as well as genre conventions. We know there’s some debate over whether killing an android is on par with killing a human and it’s possible for members of the same household to hold differing views.

In a sci-fi story like “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” with a weird, out-there concept, it’s important to get the reader to understand your world as quickly as possible in order to not only hold their interest, but also to keep them from getting confused. A confused reader is an unhappy reader, an unhappy reader goes and reads something else. But a reader getting hit between the eyes with 20 pages of history for your world is also unhappy. Dialogue can be a simple, elegant way to convey a huge amount of information if done carefully, and the less the audience notices how much information you’ve given them, the happier they will be and the further they will read in your story.

So as I gear up to try to revise some of my short stories for publication and write others for anthologies, I think about this article a lot, in which the writer Catherine Nichols struggled to have any of her manuscripts purchased until she switched to a male pen name. After she began to use the male pseudonym, her agent acceptance jumped, not just in terms of manuscript requests but also for basic politeness from the agents in question.

It’s not so much outright misogyny as unconscious bias that I fear. Even were I to give the benefit of the doubt that the literary world is improving and women authors gaining wider acceptance, there’s the unconscious bias of the reader to take into account. I firmly believe JK Rowling would not have stumbled into mega-stardom had she gone by Joanne Rowling. While she makes no secret of her gender on the author flap, it’s the casual shopper who tips the balance from hit to mega-hit, and that may mean overcoming widespread, unconscious, and more importantly international bias. Joanne Rowling’s Harry Potter may have been big, but I believe she could never have achieved the bestselling status of JK Rowling. I still clearly remember the early days of widespread surprise by male readers when they found out that the beloved writer of Harry Potter was female. 

To that end, I’m often bandying about potential pseudonyms. Certainly it could be seen as self-indulgent to imagine my name on the cover of a book, but I truly do consider it a business decision rather than an artistic one. Especially since many of my interests lie in action/adventure, historical fiction, high fantasy and sci-fi. A woman writing female characters well is to be expected, a man writing half-decent female characters is a super-star, as writers like George Martin and Joss Whedon can attest. It’s one reason why Catherine Nichols, in the above listed article, said she got so many positive responses as “George”: her characters were seen as revolutionary when written from male perspective, and pedestrian when written by a woman. 

Aside from the white-hot ball of pure fury that thought kindles in my belly, it has me thinking about the best course. Do I write as M. [“My Real Last Name”] as a pseudonym in order to simply overcome the casually biased? I love my name, I’m very proud of my name and would like to write under it. Is simply being gender neutral enough, especially when it comes to the male agents who would know my full name? Is it better to lie to these agents from the outset, as Nichols did, and come up with a George Eliot style male identity to submit under? Or even a more dramatic Lemony Snicket-style authorial character who creates an air of mystery around the identity of the author well beyond their gender? 

I’ve bandied around names like M.K. Alpine, Arthur Strange, and even Ave Lera, to piggyback off my fanfiction pseudonym (and I wouldn’t mind some thoughts on if any of those sound interesting). Is it far enough to simply be gender neutral? Is it counter-productive, in a world looking for female voices? Or is it simply a business practicality to expand one’s subconsciously (or consciously) biased audience?

Are These Filter Words Weakening Your Story?

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After putting my writing on hold for several weeks, I decided to jump back in. I expected to find all sorts of problems with my story–inconsistencies in the plot, lack of transitions, poor characterization–the works. But what began to stick out to me was something to which I’d given little thought in writing.

Filter words.

What are Filter Words?

Actually, I didn’t even know these insidious creatures had a name until I started combing the internet for info.

Filter words are those that unnecessarily filter the reader’s experience through a character’s point of view. Dark Angel’s Blog says:

“Filtering” is when you place a character between the detail you want to present and the reader. The term was started by Janet Burroway in her book On Writing.

In terms of example, you should watch out for:

  • To see
  • To hear
  • To think
  • To touch
  • To wonder
  • To realize
  • To watch
  • To look
  • To seem
  • To feel (or feel like)
  • Can
  • To decide
  • To sound (or sound like)
  • To know

I’m being honest when I say my manuscript is filled with these words, and the majority of them need to be edited out.

What do Filter Words Look Like?

Let’s imagine a character in your novel is walking down a street during peak hour.

You might, for example, write:

Sarah felt a sinking feeling as she realized she’d forgotten her purse back at the cafe across the street. She saw cars filing past, their bumpers end-to-end. She heard the impatient honk of horns and wondered how she could quickly cross the busy road before someone took off with her bag. But the traffic seemed impenetrable, and she decided to run to the intersection at the end of the block.

Eliminating the bolded words removes the filters that distances us, the readers, from this character’s experience:

Sarah’s stomach sank. Her purse—she’d forgotten it back at the cafe across the street. Cars filed past, their bumpers end-to-end. Horns honked impatiently. Could she make it across the road before someone took off with her bag? She ran past the impenetrable stream of traffic, toward the intersection at the end of the block.

Are Filter Words Ever Acceptable?

Of course, there are usually exceptions to every rule.

Just because filter words tend to be weak doesn’t mean they never have a place in our writing. Sometimes they are helpful and even necessary.

Susan Dennard of Let The Words Flow writes that we should use filter words when they are critical to the meaning of the sentence.

If there’s no better way to phrase something than to use a filter word, then it’s probably okay to do so.

Want to know more?

Read these other helpful articles on filter words and more great writing tips:

There’s a good rule that filter words are used when you need to establish *who* is doing something.

Ex.

“In the midst of their conversation, she heard a shout from the next room that the others ignored.”

But you can sometimes get around even this.

“In the midst of their conversation, there was a shout from the next room that the others ignored.”

The latter is popularly seen as more immediate for the reader. In general, removing filtering except in places where it’s absolutely critical to understand to whom things are happening if recommended. It’s easy to try out in your drafts and worth an experiment if you’re looking to improve!

do you have any links to any bagginshield fan fics? CAUSE I DIDNT SHIP THEM AND NOW I DO SOOOOOO HARD

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SCREAMS SO HARD i don’t really always get asked for bagginshield fics omggggggggg and yayyyyyyyyyyy more bagginshield pawns of pain shippers yasssssssss

lemme start by getting my own fics out of the way coz i’m vain and also coz one of them was written with a friend and i super love it in a vain way

  • On The Edge – Bilbo and Thorin talk and have feelings but they’re not quite “there” yet; Unrated.
  • If Tonight Is The Last Night – Modern AU, Thorin is a hitman, Bilbo was once his secret informer; E for smut and language.
  • Go Fetch – Sequel to “If Tonight…”; E, WIP
  • Midday, Interrupted – In which all of Hobbiton almost always knows when King Thorin has come to visit his Hobbit love because of things, but it still doesn’t stop someone from knocking at Bag End’s door at a rather inopportune moment; M for smut. (THIS IS THE CO-WRITTEN ONE.)

AND NOW RECS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE’S MORE BRILLIANT FICS

  • King, Come At Red Morning – Sleeping Beauty AU; in which Bilbo awakens a fairytale; M, Complete.
  • Love-In-Idleness – Modern AU, in which new talent Bilbo and respected but old-fashioned Thorin are thrown together and unwittingly fall in love off-stage while doing Shakespeare; T, WIP 
  • Undress Me – Modern AU, Bella (Bilbo) Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield are cast by their mutual friend in a video experiment and get more than they bargain for; M, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • To Share In Your Perils – Time-travel AU (of sorts), Thorin’s been given a second chance, and he’s determined to get it right this time, thankfully Bilbo’s being surprisingly more cooperative; E for smut.
  • Hush – Erebor AU, Bilbo wakens in the middle of the night only to find he’s not the only one awake; G for cuteness omg
  • Till Durin Wakes Again From Sleep – Reincarnation AU, in which Thorin wakes up alone and wonders about Bilbo; G, canonical character death, ambiguously happy ending
  • Take From Me My Lace – Modern AU; Bilba (Bilbo) is a famous lingerie model which has a lot less personal perks than it sounds; E, WIP, het!bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Prayers To Broken Stone – Dragon Sickness AU, in which Bilbo must save Thorin from himself; T, WIP
  • Restless Move – Erebor AU; in which Thorin and his wife-consort Bilba (Bilbo) explore new ways to, er, move; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay – Modern AU; Bilbo is hired to become the tutor to the nephews of King Thorin, which turns out to not be as simple as it sounds; T, Complete (probably my fave bagginshield fic to date tbh)
  • Love Makes Monsters Of Us All – Smaugless AU, where Thorin’s gold sickness reaches a pinnacle that it may never come down from; M, some major warnings (dubcon/noncon, implied horrible deaths, somnophilia, etc.), dark!Thorin
  • Bless Your Soles – In which Bilbo has bare feet and Thorin never expected to react to them the way he’s reacting to them now; E for smut
  • Feast – Erebor AU, in which Bilba (Bilbo) is pregnant and has needs, Thorin, neeeeeds; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Almost – In which Thorin is overthinking things, and Bilbo turns out to be the buffer he needs (as usual); G
  • Sansukh – Reincarnation AU (kind of but not really), in which Thorin can only watch from the sidelines as the history of Middle-Earth moves on without him (with bonus Gigolas!); T, WIP
  • Stay – because Bagginses never not keep promises made, or Dammit Thorin You Were Stubborn When I Didn’t Need You To Be Why Can’t You Be Stubborn NOW Curse You And Your Grimy Steel-Toed Boots; G
  • A Day In the Life of The Royal Pugs of Erebor – Pugs Under the Mountain AU, and it’s exactly what it says on the tin; G
  • The Road Delivered Us Home – Thorin Lives AU, but Bilbo has returned to the Shire and has rebuilt his life around his nephew and Absolutely Does Not Think About Thorin Or Being With Thorin Or Needing Thorin At All Ever Again No Sirree Bob Not At All; M, Complete
  • Perennial – Little Bilba (Bilbo) Baggins helps nurse a wounded Dwarf back to health and makes him promise he’ll marry her when she’s grown, but oh look at that she’s all grown up, what now?; T, WIP, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • To Kiss A Stranger – in which a video experiment sees Bilbo/Bilba and Thorin meeting randomly to make-out for cameras; TWO versions – T for het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo version, M for male slash version
  • Dinner At Eight – Thorin and Bilbo end dinner with a bang (winkwonk wordplay); E for smut, also Bottom!Thorin
  • Bed, Breakfast and Blood – Vampire AU, in which well-meaning Bilbo buys a gorgeous mansion that just happens to come complete with a broody vampire; unrated, WIP
  • And So To Bed – In which Thorin suggestively suggests a suggestion about Bella (Bilbo) going to bed; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo
  • She Walks In Beauty – Thorin is a very srs bznz Architect who gives almost a little too much of himself to his family, friends and work, but then Bella (Bilbo); M, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • The Vicar of Erebor – Modern AU, where Miss Bilbo only came to Laketown to head a parish, dash it all; M, WIP, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo
  • You Can Leave Your Shirt On – Erebor AU, Thorin has been away and has missed his Hobbit; E, Bottom!Thorin
  • Touch My Mouth And Hold My Tongue – in which Bilbo and Thorin finally do the do, and Bilbo is a boss about it; E for smut, Bottom!Thorin
  • In The Morning and Amazing – Bilbo and Thorin got some sleep at Beorn’s, so we know what that means; E for smut
  • Only Her Sonorous Jewels – Thorin is King, but where is Bella (Bilbo)?; E, plus major warnings (somnophilia, dubcon/noncon), dark!Thorin, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo

those are just some of my faves, if i keep going this post will be too damn long omg but i literally have like 36 pages of AO3 history (WEAK, I KNOW) and i only got up to 15 or sth with this one coz i still have to work, so HEY maybe in future i can rec you some more 😀

(PS – had to bold the het!bagginshield/fem!bilbo thing coz it’s a bit unpopular/not very much liked in the fandom, had to make sure that other people looking at the recs will know not to click on the fem!bilbo fics)

Bless my socks, Mango, thanks for the recs! @
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This must be a pretty old list if “Prayers” is listed as a WIP lol but there’s a lot of great fics on here so don’t mind if I share!