Tag: the hobbit

♊ for useless details ask

♊ what kind of mail do they get (except for bills)? have they subscribed to any magazines/newspapers? 

You didn’t specify a character, so I’ll do a few.

Theo Derensky (Sons of Jerusalem): communications from his agent, fan letters filtered through said agent, communications from work, angry letters from Danny (who doesn’t like email), spam, more spam, letters from Freddy’s school, spam. Subscribes to The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Highlights Magazine.

Bill Baggins (Sons of Jerusalem): invitations to join the AMA, weird misdirected mail that’s addressed to the guy who lives in his old apartment, letters from his more old-fashioned family in England, birthday cards. Subscribes to several scholarly journals in emergency medicine.

Thorin Oakenshield (Down the Road and Back Again): lots of letters from Bilbo, various communications regarding his royal duties, letters from kids, advertisements for hair-care products. Subscribes to Erebor Daily, the Trans-Arda Cat Fanciers’ Magazine, and the Warg Fanciers’ Association Magazine, published by Nori.

Bilbo Baggins (Down the Road and Back Again): everything, because he doesn’t like email, weird mailers from a hardware store (he suspects Fili and Kili signed him up, or possibly Lobelia). Subscribes to Arda Legal.

Octavius (AU, discussed with Sushi and @martinus-cornelius): letters written in Italian from his family, academic spam, way too much from his alumni association. He doesn’t get out much. Subscribes to pretty much every newspaper he can get his hands on, including a few from England and Italy (they arrive a few days late).

Jedediah (AU, see above): mailers from a bunch of places he ordered something from one time and can’t bear to tell no, letters from his more adventuresome friends without access to email, packages with souvenirs for his house, fancy food. Subscribes to National Geographic, Horse & Rider, Horse Illustrated, MAD Magazine, and the Journal of College Counseling.

Bagginshield Halloween fluff? :3

“Trick or – AAAHHHHH!”

“Wait!” Thorin shouted after the squealing fauntlings. “Come back!” It was no use. Yet another group of little ones had run off without taking any candy. Was it because he was a Dwarf? Or had he decorated the smial insufficiently? Whatever the reason, he couldn’t help feeling let down. Trick-or-treat night was not at all what Bilbo had promised.

He sighed and scratched the edge of his forehead where the paint had begun to itch. And after I dressed up, too.

“What’s wrong? Is the candy insufficient?” Bilbo came up beside him and squinted into the sunset, a hand over his eyes. “Ungrateful little trolls! I spent hours making those sweeties last night. Have you ever heard of anything so -” He turned to Thorin, his face indignant, and stopped short with a scream to rattle the windows. “AAAHHHHH!”

“What? What? Are you all right, Bilbo?” Thorin grabbed his husband by the shoulders, which didn’t help the screaming situation. “Why is everyone screaming at me tonight?” Surely it wasn’t possible that Hobbiton had decided to have a collective apoplexy without notifying him. Perhaps if he shouted for a raven and sent word to Oin…

Bilbo shook in his grasp. “Y-you…you…” His breath came in goldfish-like gulps. Right, so not collective after all. “You…” He pointed at Thorin’s face. “What is that on your face?”

“Food?” He had had pumpkin tarts earlier.

“No, not that, you ridiculous sausage!” The color was beginning to come back into Bilbo’s face. “What in the name of all the Valar do you think you’re playing at, painting your face up like that? You nearly scared my heart out of my chest!”

“But it’s only a bit of paint,” Thorin protested. He wasn’t even very good at it. Nori was much better at costuming than he was. “I’m an Orc demon from that story I told you. You said it was clever.”

Bilbo shook his head. “The story. I said the story was clever, not painting yourself up to look like something out of everyone’s nightmares. No wonder those poor faunts have been running. How many angry parents do you think we’ll have to deal with later tonight?”

“I didn’t know Hobbit children scared that easily,” Thorin admitted, feeling more than a little downtrodden. He looked down at his feet, which even after all these months he hadn’t been able to start leaving bare yet. “I’m so sorry, Bilbo. I’ve ruined everyone else’s Beggar’s Night. Can you forgive me?”

Bilbo stared at him, lips pursed, and then melted into a friendlier expression with a sigh and a squeeze to Thorin’s middle. “I suppose,” he said, giving that irritated huff of his. “Just go wash your face and we’ll start again. But just in case…” He shook a finger at Thorin in warning. “I’m holding the sweets bowl this time. You’re not to be trusted.”

Thorin snorted. “Yes, my dearest,” he said, and kissed Bilbo’s cheek before he turned to go to the washroom, leaving Bilbo to splutter behind him.

Thanks to my amazing wife, @wikdsushi, for the idea on how to fill this. 😀 Hope you like it, @emsiecat!

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Chapter 2 of Seven Nights, Seven Days is up!

(Sorry it’s so late. I swear, this was meant to be a Yuletide story.)

Summary:

Dashing through the snow, with a pit warg in the lead –

Or, Bilbo and Thorin have their first Yule Day in the Shire.

Thank you to @tea-blitz for the beta, and to @omgkatsudonplease and @anonymoussong for your liveblog series, from which I got some of the idea for Dwarves having a Festival of Lights. (This one has potato pancakes every year, though.)

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What traits do you personally as a fic writer care the most about conveying about Bilbo and Thorin when you write fic?

This is a really cool question.

For Bilbo, I try to keep him fairly close to Tolkien’s original vision/inspiration: a crusty Englishman, or in this case Hobbit, who’s pretty set in his ways and has mutual culture clashes as a matter of course with his companions. He’s sassy, definitely, but I don’t want to put him into Sassy Gay Friend territory, and most of all I try to avoid the shrinking violet trope that people complained about in fics post-AUJ.

For Thorin, I try to convey the responsibility he feels he has to shoulder – the Atlas figure, if you will, without making him into a maudlin Christ figure or anything. He’s an educated prince, with extensive knowledge in warcraft, statecraft, languages, and culture; he’s not a bumpkin, and he’s just as sophisticated as Bilbo – if anything, Bilbo’s the provincial one. At the same time, I also try to get across that he has depth, especially regarding his fear and realization of mental illness.

Thanks for the ask! 🙂

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Seven Nights, Seven Days: A Yuletide Tale.

Summary:

It’s tradition to spend Yuletide with your family. Bilbo Baggins sees no
reason why his betrothed can’t partake in his traditions, even if that
betrothed is the King of Erebor. However, tossing friends, family that
he has yet to meet, and enthusiastic pets into the mix may ensure that
this is the most memorable holiday Thorin has ever seen (and he’s spent
some with Nori).

The sequel to Down the Road and Back Again is here!!!!!!!

Many thanks to @tea-blitz for beta-ing. ❤

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