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Monique Willis, born Monique Bryden (Sons of Jerusalem), is an ER nurse, former roommate and current best friend of Bill Baggins. She lives with her eleven-year-old twin sons, Bryden and Reynard “Ray” Willis, and their pug, Cornwallis. In her free time, she likes reading what she considers trashy books, going for walks, and actually getting some damn sleep. Do you have ANY idea how many bodily fluids she encounters on a daily basis? But she digresses.

Interesting fact: she had a Haitian grandfather who spent some time in France, hence her knowledge of the Reynard fox story.

I don’t think you’re even meant to think Bilbo would need to apologize to Thorin. Apologies if you’ve said it before, and I’m not saying Bilbo needs to suffer, or that anyone else deserved to die, but I don’t see why only Thorin was so bad he had to die. The movie even takes away that there was a good point to not want the men and elves there. I’ll check your stuff out.

Oh, wow, side effect of answering an ask! 😀 Thanks, anon!

Thorin definitely wasn’t bad at all. He was just sick, and I’m sticking with it. ❤

In the book I don’t you’re supposed to relate to anyone other than Bilbo. I know this will get read the wrong way but I don’t hate Bilbo at all, but from a different perspective I can’t ignore the real world antisemitic tropes loaded on the Dwarves. The movie hasThorin more well rounded and talks about the dragon spell but the character is still more remembered for the gold obsession so when I think of the associations people make with Jewish influenced characters I feel uncomfortable.

Yeah. This, all of this. Which is why I flesh out Thorin as much as I can in fic. 😀

Unpopular opinion but I can’t buy the Hobbit as a good metaphor of the evils of capitalism or that it says anything about how bad rich people are when the end has Bilbo going home rich. I just don’t get why I’m supposed to agree that the Dwarves are a metaphor for rich greedy people and the Jewish connection makes me dislike it. I know the canon hints they deserve their misfortune but I don’t agree with how it’s written.

I don’t agree with it, either.

I like Bilbo, but as I’ve said before, he’s the audience surrogate – that is, if the audience is a clueless white man. Bagginshield (unfortunately) isn’t canon, so we can’t say he spends the rest of his life grieving for Thorin as Thorin was meant to be grieved. It’s arguable that his time with the Ring affected him very deeply and negatively, but I don’t like that he never faced any clear consequences for what he did to Thorin. Thorin DIED. Bilbo…well, as you said, he went home rich, and in the books, there was never a single apology.