InkConito

Thorin’s closest relative that died of age (not being murdered) was his grandfather’s brother Gror, who passed at 242. So I’m going to round that 250 is about the norm. Bilbo’s closest relative to estimate how old he would have been (spare his parents) is his cousin Otho Sackville-Baggins, who died at 102.

Bilbo, suddenly very insecure of his pointed-ears: …

Thorin: what’s wrong?

Bilbo, hesitantly pointing towards his ears.

Once every thousand years I remember that I can draw...

Go back to your books… and your armchair. Plant your trees. Watch them grow. 🍁☕️

(The whirlwind with which these two characters have cemented themselves into my psyche. I adore them so much... l'd like to think this takes place in the depths of Erebor. While they have a still moment together. Soft, shy confessions before the raging storm.) 🥲

[tags via : @heavenly-havoc]

Because they're good braids, some of them quite complicated and no one can understand just how he knows how to do that.

The only conclusion they could come to is that the hobbit must have a paramour back in The Shire, some long-haired lass who he spoils with pretty love-braids.

Thorins temper had been truly foul after Balin had proposed the theory out loud.

After weeks of Thorin sulking, it was ever curious: Ori, who finally asked where Bilbo had learned such intrecate braid work.

This leads to an extended series of confusing conversations between Thorin and Bilbo, who spend the quest calling each other increasingly creative insults and then not understanding why the other barely reacts. This eventually fades into nothing for Thorin and fond comments Bilbo says to himself, at least until the disaster that is the goldsickness-induced breakup right before the battle. This time, they throw the worst insults they know at each other, but as Thorin really gets going, Bilbo stops with a completely baffled look on his face before saying "what the- fuck's sake- is this really the proper time for you to be flirting with me?"

Thorin, who has spent the entire second half of the quest wondering while Bilbo hasn't been responding to his attempts at flirting, snaps out of goldsickness from sheer shock.

@anastheseus - author of this idea

I totally see the parallels between these two couples - it really could've been the Arkenstone instead of a rose

wanted to make this for quite some time 💟

we bagginshield shippers know all these meta saying Thorin and Bilbo's scenes in the movies are super romantically coded, from cinematic point of view (camera angles, lighting, music etc)