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the next chapter will be posted!

In the Future, alas!……..not at the moment

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Update: the next chapter is still in progress!

I’ve been posting pages weekly on patreon (and asking patrons for help on naming the background hobbits) but it’s very Time Consuming.

But this next chapter will be very Special, I hope. I want to get it right!

This has also made me very aware of how relatively “fast” I draw; posting one page a week has made it clear my previous update schedule of “20 pages every few weeks” was a bit untenable.

I’m excited for you all to see it, when it’s finally done!

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One of my favorite lines from The Hobbit <3 :_;. You can follow my full webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit on Tumblr here, on Ao3 here, or on Webtoon here.

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Plugging again because we’re several pages into the new chapter now!

Hello everyone! After five years of doing this comic I've finally started an official Patreon for my art. Subscribe to me there for weekly updates! (I already have the first page of the next chapter up, among other things.)

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As he lay in bed he could hear Thorin still humming to himself in the best bedroom next to him:

Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away, ere break of day,

To find our long-forgotten gold.

Bilbo went to sleep with that in his ears, and it gave him very uncomfortable dreams.

This moment from chapter 16 of The Hobbit comic adaptation symbolizes the core of the relationship between Bilbo and Thorin, in this version of the story.

Bilbo and Thorin are both awake long after everyone else is asleep, kept up by their anxieties over the journey.

Bilbo’s room is decorated with a bunch of little objects; Thorin is in a spare room that is completely empty. It’s a “visual reference” to the idea that Bilbo has a home in Bag End, and tons of little treasures of his own that he’s very attached to— but Thorin has none, because the Lonely Mountain and its “long forgotten gold” was taken from him.

(You can read the full comic adaptation here on tumblr, on Webtoon, or on Ao3, and tip the artist/preview the next chapters on Patreon!)

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Also! Feel free to send any thoughts or questions you have about this comic/my Tolkien Takes to my askbox. I sometimes take a while to answer things, but I do answer! (And I love talking to other Tolkien fans!) :D

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The hard thing about this comic is that I’m now extremely invested in a version of The Hobbit combining book canon/popular fanon/my own weirdness, that exists largely inside my own head. And the only way I can explain that vision is by posting chapters but they take so long.

Me explaining how the butterfly symbolism will shift in meaning over the course of the comic, and how Thorin’s refusal to say “at your service” in Bag End will get a callback in the dungeons of the Woodland Realm, how the framing device will change over time, and how the One Ring will factor into all of this when it finally shows up in the comic in a few years:

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I am very excited to post the next chapter of The Hobbit comic!

It is taking a long time because of the elaborate background art. If I really push myself and split it into two, I may be able to post it April 13th. if not, it will be posted May 13th.

My biggest inspirations for the next chapter are the “journey sequences” in Miyazaki movies like My Neighbor Totoro, and the journey sequences in the Lord of the Rings films.

Thank you to my Patrons for supporting my art and allowing me to justify buying new photoshop brushes to use in my paintings. You can join my patreon and see weekly art/comic previews here.

Posting weekly Patreon updates has made me realize how fast I draw. It turns out I can keep up with a weekly update schedule; my previous “20 pages per 2 months”/ 2 pages a week schedule was just absurdly fast, even if it didn’t feel that way.

Thank you all for reading! And get ready for Chapter 18, coming— eventually!

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Me: in these next chapters I’ll go Full Studio Ghibli with the backgrounds!

Me hours later: so it turns out that studio Ghibli backgrounds actually take a very long time to paint

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Also! Feel free to send any thoughts or questions you have about this comic/my Tolkien Takes to my askbox. I sometimes take a while to answer things, but I do answer! (And I love talking to other Tolkien fans!) :D

[retellingthehobbit]

The hard thing about this comic is that I’m now extremely invested in a version of The Hobbit combining book canon/popular fanon/my own weirdness, that exists largely inside my own head. And the only way I can explain that vision is by posting chapters but they take so long.

Me explaining how the butterfly symbolism will shift in meaning over the course of the comic, and how Thorin’s refusal to say “at your service” in Bag End will get a callback in the dungeons of the Woodland Realm, how the framing device will change over time, and how the One Ring will factor into all of this when it finally shows up in the comic in a few years:

[retellingthehobbit]

I am very excited to post the next chapter of The Hobbit comic!

It is taking a long time because of the elaborate background art. If I really push myself and split it into two, I may be able to post it April 13th. if not, it will be posted May 13th.

My biggest inspirations for the next chapter are the “journey sequences” in Miyazaki movies like My Neighbor Totoro, and the journey sequences in the Lord of the Rings films.

Thank you to my Patrons for supporting my art and allowing me to justify buying new photoshop brushes to use in my paintings. You can join my patreon and see weekly art/comic previews here.

Posting weekly Patreon updates has made me realize how fast I draw. It turns out I can keep up with a weekly update schedule; my previous “20 pages per 2 months”/ 2 pages a week schedule was just absurdly fast, even if it didn’t feel that way.

Thank you all for reading! And get ready for Chapter 18, coming— eventually!

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The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.

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The front door of Bag End in my webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit, as seen in Chapter 1 vs Chapter 18 :). It turns out your art style changes a lot when you draw a webcomic. (I love painting Ghibli-inspired backgrounds!)

Chapter 18 hasn’t been posted publicly yet, but you can view the first several pages (along with other art) on my Patreon.

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Here is just "The Misty Mountains Cold"/The Song of the Lonely Mountain, from Chapter 16 of my webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit! I noticed I had never posted the song in isolation. You can find my full webcomic adaptation of the Hobbit on Tumblr here, Ao3 here, and Webtoon here. You can also support my art in general/see things early on Patreon here.

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Announcement: Chapter 18 Page 5/6 is now up on my Patreon! :D

Also: Given how much detail I've been putting into all those backgrounds, Chapter 18 will not be posted publicly until April 13th at the earliest. Alas! It turns out attempting to do "studio ghibli style" backgrounds actually takes a very very long time. astounding. Here is a small snippet of a larger painting:

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ive just discovered your comic after reading and becoming obsessed with the hobbit,.,.., perfect beautiful amazing shkaflskdllsasksl IM SO HAPPY thank you so much for creating something so lovely ❤️❤️❤️❤️

AHH thank yOU so much!! I'm glad you enjoy it, and comments like this mean a lot to me :_;