I couldn’t think of a way to better enjoy Hobbit Day than to pay a little tribute to just a small sample of some of the amazing stories this fandom is lucky enough to be gifted with. There are many fics I’ve left out and will be adding to this list many times over before I’m done with it. Please feel free to let me know of any of your favorites that you think I might’ve missed as well!
It would not be impertinent to say this is less of fic rec post and more a love letter to this fandom.
Summary: Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure? Bagginshield. Modern AU. King and I overtones. Novel-Length.
Thoughts: This was either the second or third Hobbit fic I ever read, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve re-read it. It was the first fic I ever added to my ebook reader just so I could read it whenever I wanted, and honestly, I could write an essay. The world building, the character study, the plot: it’s out of this world. I’ve read published novels that only had me a quarter as impressed as this story, and I wish I could pay money for it because I would buy multiple copies.
Summary:There’s a certain point where you can no longer ask someone what their name is. Thorin isn’t sure exactly when that point is, but he knows that it’s probably some time before the person in question saves your life. On the far side of the Misty Mountains, Thorin realizes that he never quite caught the first part of Mr. Baggins’ name, and he finds that it’s astonishingly harder to learn than he would have thought. Fili, Kili, and Dwalin are no help whatsoever. Bagginshield. Humor.
Thoughts: This is not a long drawn out romance, but rather a short humorous getting together story and honest to god it is unfathomable how many times I have read and re-read it at this point. I could almost quote it word for word.
the thing i love best about thorin and bilbo hugging is that they both look so moved by it like it’s this transcendental experience like stars aligning tides changing the universe holding its breath…but you also know it must’ve been absolutely foul. these guys have been fighting fucking goblins in filthy wet caves, running, falling down in goblin muck, then fighting really big dogs essentially, half on fire, drenched with sweat and adrenaline, they’re banged up and bleeding, they haven’t bathed since rivendell like a week ago, there’s half a forest in thorin’s hair alone, like they are absolutely disgusting, it must have been a top five contender for middle earth’s most gross hug award, and all they can bloody well do about it is smile at one another. revolting. i love them.
Basically it’s an AU that rich merchant!Bilbo got kidnapped by a group of 13 thieves(erm…gentleman thieves), and then clear the thieves’ food reserves and teach thief leader!Thorin about aristocratic stuffs lol
1. Eh…..they are eh….on a bed /run/
2. Bilbo teaching Thorin about etiquette and Thorin is like “Who fu*ckin’ cares?”
3. NOMMMMMMMNOMNOMMMMMMM together
The last pic is the coloured version of this, gonna make this series into prints set!
a quick reminder that thorin is holding both of bilbo’s hands in the first gif, and then continues to clutch onto bilbo’s sleeve until bilbo grabs his hand and tightly holds onto it until thorin dies
Avelera 