#hobbit thoughts

Something about these dying roses speaks volumes on the beauty of ageing

but that he should trust their friendship to get them through, and not shame them for maybe being unable to walk into this danger is they knew all that could happen

like. i think it’s really sweet, and speaks to the nature of hobbits: they will not willingly walk into deadly peril, or it will at least be very difficult for them to do

(see: frodo taking so much time to get used to the idea of leaving the shire for rivendell, having to put everything to order beforehand, or even the fact that bilbo had to be dragged on his adventure to actually go on it)

but they will certainly walk wherever needed with and for their friends

(see: the plan the other hobbits hatched to go with frodo and help him)

and i do think that this is the thing to count on- bc hobbits are hardier than you’d think and they can survive a whole lot and still go out for a pint together afterwards and enjoy some good food even more, bc they now know how to do without

Pippin’s great-grandfather, Hildigrim (Belladonna’s older brother) marries Rosa Baggins and they have a son Adalgrim. This is part of my inspiration for making Adalgrim and Bilbo friends in Once Upon a Dream. 

But...with that being said. Adalgrim is born a Took. He’s allowed his Tookish tendencies, and if his mother’s Baggins genes mellow him out, then all the better where Bilbo is in the exact opposite situation. He was born a Baggins. Specifically the head of the Baggins family. 

All this to say, I just wonder if Bilbo looked at his older cousin as both a safe space and with envy. Like, “you understand how I feel with our relatives on both sides...but you don’t ever have to reign yourself in. You don’t have to be half of yourself.” 

Give her a personality that's not just the embodiment of twenty different tropes and I wouldn't mind her non-canon existence at all.

i am who

everyone is

going to be