aquilea-of-the-lonely-mountain:

I adore
Bagginshield, but I think what stays with me the most – and what always hits me
the most – is whenever they’re so soft and gentle with each other?!

As much as
I adore passionate/desperate “you’re alive you’re alive you’re alive” and “stay
with me” and “just kiss me already, you fool” scenes (not to mention other hot
stuff™) – just bury me in soft glances and tender touches, in Thorin and Bilbo
holding each other in their arms, in both of them comforting each other
wordlessly, just by being near the other, in forehead touches and feather-light
kisses and whispered promises …