aquilea-of-the-lonely-mountain:

serenbach86:

I made myself sad today thinking that if you read the Hobbit from an in-universe perspective where Bilbo was the author, Thorin comes across so vividly, as if Bilbo has spent the last few decades going over and over all their interactions in his head, desperately trying to make sure he didn’t forget a single moment.

Weeell … Maybe the reason Thorin comes across so vividly is that Bilbo spent the past sixty years together with his dwarf and got to see every side of him, and the only reason for the so-called “canon ending” is that Bilbo was particularly fed up on that day with him because Thorin broke his favourite tea kettle 😀

Canon? Never heard of that before *shrugs cluelessly*