hildyj:

I’m sure, like definitely sure, given the haphazard way the hobbit trilogy was put together that the whole “I lost my way twice” line was added at some point while filming on set when someone asked, “is there a reason for Thorin turning so much later than everybody else? I mean, besides giving him a more dignified and heroic entrance than the one in the book?” and everyone just looked at each other and went, “fuck it, let’s just say he couldn’t find the place” and went on their merry way

but like

the fandom has now turned it into a major character trait? entire fan fic plots hinge on the fact that Thorin couldn’t find his way out of an empty potato sack, several pieces of fan arts joke about it, and it’s become this beautifully humanizing part of this tragically doomed dwarf’s personality. And I just love that.

that’s what fan culture is to me: taking bits of the canon and expanding them and gluing them together in new and interesting ways.

and it’s all so beautiful