#hobbit spoilers

[froschli96]

If I had a nickel for every time a fantasy adaptation made the exiled royal character trying to return home and reclaim their throne a natural and inspirational leader who's shown to be honorable and trying to do best by their people, only to have them falter at the last step by succumbing to some vaguely dragon-related hereditary mental illness that drives them mad just like their ancestor and forces the love of their life to betray them and then they ultimately die in the arms of said love...

I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[prokopetz]

The Hobbit in fanon: Hobbits aren't hung up on appearances – the Shire will accept you no matter who you are!

The Hobbit in canon: The outcome of a pivotal confrontation hinges upon the fact that Bilbo just happens to know racial slurs for talking spiders.

[rutobuka2]

do handmade food gifts take on a meaning for hobbits? Asking for a friend...

[mathelaw]

WARNING: SPOILERS (fic Kurdu'abadaz)

A little thingy I did for @lordoftherazzles newest chapter of Kurdu'abadaz, this fic gives me LIFE. Go check it out!

[doctorwyvern]

thinking about how thorin is still king under the mountain because that’s where they buried him.

[felassan]

the Thedosian Moons Conspiracy continues

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(Text reads: "Sky Quality. Adjusts the appearance of the sky, clouds, and celestial bodies like the sun and moon. CPU: Minor | GPU: Moderate | VRAM: Minor")

[fantasyinallforms]

The third episode of The Rings Of Power showing us just how strong the genes in the line Durin are. Long pause snarky cadence and all.

[kateksmallcuteowl]

Part 1/3 of a comic by a “When Thorin feels embarrassed he acts as if he is furious” concept. Just because I find it hilarious.

I’m trying something new with this bagginshield sketches including style and shading. So I’ll be really glad if you let me know what you think of it✨

(I hope I manage to end the second page up till tomorrow)

UwU

[dnd-shows-have-my-soul]

The upcoming costumes just dropped.

I’m really really excited.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

LOTR Newletter - Prologue

Thoughts as I read:

Delighted to learn from @astronicht that the Red Book of Westmarch is in fact a reference to the Red Book of Hergest, a Welsh medieval book that contains among other things the Mabinogion. I’ve been reading and rereading LOTR for over 20 years, and only now learning that there are piles of references that I’ve been missing. Thank you! your observations are always a delight!

I love the way Tolkien fully treats his Middle-earth writings as a reality. That’s been done by a lot of people, of course – in the 1600s and 1700s when novels were rarer it seems like it was viewed as almost required to provide some fictional ‘source’ for your story that you had merely edited. But Tolkien does it more convincingly than many, including writing of Hobbits as still existing and in the present tense (“they avoid us now with dismay and are becoming hard to find” and “Hobbits have never, in fact, studied magic of any kind”). He’s writing a mythology, not just a novel; and a key characteristic of a mythology is, I think, that the people who made it believed it. The words of one reviewer of The Hobbit express this quality wonderfully: “Has the air of inventing nothing. He has studied trolls and dragons at first hand and describes them with fidelity.”

I’m very amused that some of the hobbits’ characteristics are those of Tolkien, such as not liking complicated machinery and “being fond of simple jests at all times” (something he said of himself).

“[Hobbits’] elusiveness is due solely to a professional skill that heredity and practice, and a close friendship with the earth, have rendered inimitable by bigger and clumsier races.” ‘A close friendship with the earth’….what an evocative and intriguing way of putting it!

Tolkien seems to have a thing for dviding his fantasy races into three groups corresponding to hill/mountain-likers (Harfoots, Noldor), water-likers (Stoors, Teleri) and tree-likers (Fallohides, Sindar). The Harfoots are also said to associate more with Dwarves (as do Noldor), the Stoors with Men (and Tolkien’s main groups of Men are also more associated with water, due to Númenor), and the Fallohides with elves.

Hobbits are shorter than I remembered! I was thinking of 3-4 feet as normal, but Tolkien says “between two and four feet”, with the Bulkroarer (an exceptionally tall hobbit) at four foot five. Two feet tall is tiny! Harfoots (most hobbits, and probably including Sam) are on the shorter side; Fallohides (Tooks and Brandybucks are said to have more Fallohidish background, so that includes Frodo, Merry, and Pippin) are on the taller side.

I am amused that the one governmental service that Tolkien does consider essential is the post-office.

[iseathegalaxy]

rewatched the hobbit trilogy (i love it, fight me) and no-one will ever convince me there's no romantic subtext between bilbo and thorin (intended or not)

because how can you look at me straight in the eye and tell me there isn't something more than friendship when thorin, in the middle of having dragon fever and being completely consumed by the treasure that sorrounds him, doesn't trust any of his brothers, his kin, the dwarves he has always been with but he trusts bilbo, only him, the stranger he just met and didn't even like at first and who he told he was a burden and no help and should go back home

how can you look at me straight in the eye and claim there's just a friendship when, again, in the middle of this all-consuming trance thorin is in because of the piles of gold he still gifts bilbo a mithril mailchain to protect him, all while mistrusting everyone else

how can you look at me straight in the eye and utter that there's nothing there when it doesn't even cross thorin's mind that the one that has the arkenstone could be bilbo but immediately thinks of everyone else

how can you look at me straight in the eye and declare they just share a mission when bilbo is the only one there with him in death (not blaming the others for their absence, merely pointing out a creative decision) and thorin asks for forgiveness and they both share this very intimate last moment

and how can you look at me straight in the eye and speak that there is nothing romantic in bilbo's words when, after balin says thorin will pass into legend, he replies that "to [bilbo] he was never that, he was... to [bilbo]... he was..." and he cannot bring himself to finish the sentence! all while balin is smiling knowingly at him!

be it either because it was on purpose or just another side effect of men refusing to write fully fledge female characters (or a female character at all) and therefore giving the men the kind of deep, complex, incredibly intricate relationships the world refuses to acknowledge for anyone but straight couples, we'll never know, but they're there and oh god, do they make me cry when they end like this one does

[tossacointoyourhotmess]

SAURON THROUGH THE AGES OF MIDDLE EARTH - The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings Trilogies

"Now Sauron's lust and pride increased, until he knew no bounds, and he determined to make himself master of all things in Middle-earth, and to destroy the Elves, and to compass if he might, the downfall of Númenor. He brooked no freedom nor any rivalry, and he named himself Lord of the Earth. A mask he still could wear so that if he wished he might deceive the eyes of Men, seeming to them wise and fair. But he ruled rather by force and fear, if they might avail; and those who perceived his shadow spreading over the world called him the Dark Lord and named him the Enemy; and he gathered under his government all the evil things of the days of Morgoth that remained on earth or beneath it; and the Orcs were at his command and multiplied like flies."—The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"

[elffromforests]

The Rings of Power 2x 5ep

NOOO . Shock. I am confused.

I am sure that Gil Galad's ring showed him three visions and the last one was about Gil Galad himself, about Gil Galad's death in Mordor. And the king understood it immediately. I am crying 😿

And that's why his expression changes and that's why he's a little depressed when he talks to Elrond.That is, rings do not show for the nearest time, but can show for a long period of time?

Now imagine that you are directly told and shown how you will die, but this is the only way to fight evil and you agree to these terms of the game. This is heroism 😥❤️

WTF

[ariadne-mouse]

In a hole in the ground there lived a god of death. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a death-hole, and that means neverending light and darkness and existential crises.

[retellingthehobbit]

I’m making a webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit! It’s an epic cool passion project that incorporates as much of Tolkien’s prose as possible while also being my own take on the story, it features a variety of different art styles to represent the worlds of different characters in Middle Earth, it’s over 100 pages long already, the art/writing keeps gradually improving over time, and you should follow it! Like, comment, and subscribe! *dabs*

Okay I admit I’m awful at ‘marketing.’ But my point stands! Follow for queer Tookish antics over the Edge of the Wild. 

You can keep up by following me here at @retellingthehobbit on Tumblr. This blog posts a new 10ish-page-long chapter once a month (on the 13th), as well as assorted WIP art :3. The first chapter on tumblr is here. (I started out posting on my main @secretmellowblog, so the earlier chapters were posted there instead.) However, I personally recommend keeping up with the comic by bookmarking it on ao3 here or subscribing on Webtoon here. This keeps all the chapters neatly organized in one place, and also sends you an email notification whenever it updates, which is helpful because I don't update weekly :). I currently update monthly, on the thirteenth day of every month.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy!

[frog-lord]

Half-foot Marcille is so cute 🥰