the bravest little hobbit of them all

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[letmebegaytodd]

Couldn't stop thinking about this little man

So i got on ebay and found him

Effervescent

[letmebegaytodd]

[letmebegaytodd]

i see we're all on the same wavelength today

[ironmandeficiency]

i need help finding a specific bagginshield fic on ao3!!! i’ve read it at least three times but i never remember where i saved it to, if i ever remembered to save it in the first place 😅 my history has been picked thru with a fine tooth comb, every bookmark and rec and collection dissected, but for the love of all the valar i simply can’t find it!!!

here’s what i remember of the plot:

there’s an orc attack on the shire a few years post-botfa. the thain and most other hobbits don’t take bilbo seriously when he tells everyone they need to leave, but he’s able to lead the ones who do believe him to safety as the shire burns

he rides a white ox that he jokingly named gandalf, and almost gets a moniker akin to the bullroarer

bilbo possibly thinks thorin is dead? and elrond, who knows better, is cryptic when telling bilbo to head further east to erebor (the refugees take a pit stop in rivendell)

there ends up being a hobbit village founded in the slopes of the lonely mountain and an acorn becomes incorporated into the baggins clan crest (the hobbits are considered baggins’s folk i think?)

i’m pretty sure thorin and bilbo build their own smial on ravenhill

the title is some amalgamation of the phrase “there is one we could follow, one we could call thain” and it’s a twist on the quote from balin abt thorin in auj

side note- the capitalization and grammar in this fic is neat and polished!! this detail is important bc there was a ripoff i found under a different title that ruined everything good abt the original with trash formatting and piss poor grammar

will someone PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE find the link to this fic??! i’ve been wanting to read it again for months but have been unable to find it again 😭

[sillylotrpolls]

In The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980) movies by Rankin/Bass, Thranduil and Legolas look quite different from each other despite being father and son. Why?

Legolas took after his mother

Recessive genes

Legolas is adopted

Legolas is actually short and green, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

Thranduil is actually tall and blonde, but uses a glamour to appear otherwise

That Thranduil was actually a decoy, in case the dwarves tried assassination

Legolas is still in the larval stage of his species

All that heavy drinking eventually affected Thranduil's looks

Legolas' dad is a different Thranduil; two elves can have the same name, geez

Okay, so, do you know the canonical backstory for Smurfette…?

Something something Silmarillion

I don't engage in Watsonian theorizing when Doylist explanations are obvious

Voting ended onDec 24, 2025

[elodieunderglass]

The actual answer is, of course, multiple of these

[butchamy]

I mean the actual answer is "that second image isn't from Rankin Bass Return of the King it's from Bakshi Lord of the Rings" but it's also all of them

[elodieunderglass]

You understand the assignment profoundly

[ironmandeficiency]

i’m getting back into my witcher era 🗡️ (i restarted my save on switch for shits and giggles and i’m having fun)

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Done with summer heat, I look forward to witchy autumn

[asunnydisposish]

Chthonic siblings - the face of the underworld

Made a matching Melinoe to go with Zagreus in celebration of the Hades II release!

[symptomsoflettinggo]

folieing absolute deux rn

[mothofb]

So this was totally suppose to be for Valentine’s Day but I just got around to finishing it lol! 

A little comic (?) about Ulmo cause seriously he’s like the coolest. Constantly helping out people of Middle Earth when he could. Obviously wasn’t able to stop a lot of horrible things that happened but still he was like the most active of the Valar. 

And also since it was for Valentine’s Day this was just kind of for everyone and especially all you single peeps, to celebrate all kinds of love and not just romantic cause you really don’t need romance in your life to be happy. 

So I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and a good weekend. Thank you to all my awesome friends (especially The Company you know who you are), followers, and people in general who support my art by liking and reblogging. UuU 

You’re all wonderful <3

P.S. I’m sure there’s a lot of grammar mistakes so forgive me for that. Grammar isn’t my forte ;w;

[jeza-red]

Amazing*__*

[depsidase]

[googlepliers]

Happy 21st of September!

[ironmandeficiency]

Finally someone who doesn't glorify fictional incest? Am I dreaming? Hello friend?

hi friend!! i’m sending a virtual pinch so you know you’re not dreaming 😂

[ironmandeficiency]

are there any warhammer 40k/horus heresy era fics that aren’t just pwp incest??? i’m genuinely asking

[diabolicalevil]

"average imperial citizen eats 3 psykers a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average citizen eats 0 psykers per year. God Emperors Georg, beloved by all, who lives on the golden throne & eats 1,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[ironmandeficiency]

idk why everyone is so upset about tales of the shire 🤷🏻‍♀️ weta workshop set out to make a slice-of-life hobbit video game and that’s exactly what they did. anyone that knows anything abt hobbits knows that hobbits typically don’t go on grand adventures, so there is no reason for your hobbit character to throw hands with an orc or ride in barrels down rivers*.

*bilbo baggins is an outlier and thus should not be counted

almost every review i’ve seen calls it things ranging from a flop to a tragedy comparable to the gollum game. i honestly think the negativity is bc people are going into it expecting to play like bilbo, or sam and frodo, or merry and pippin & go on a wild life-or-death adventure with world-altering consequences. but that’s just not how the average hobbit lives; they plant their crops and invite their neighbors to tea and are never late for dinner.

plus, all the pleasant (and occasionally sad) callbacks to other bits of the tolkienverse were great to see. it conveys a strong love and respect for the universe on the part of the developers, which is a necessity for such an immersive game

are there some things weta can add or change in the future? of course there are (for one, i would love to see seasonal festivals/events), but it’s been less than a month since it released, give them time. i’m gonna just sit here and water my crops and worry about what to make for elevenses

(ps this is my hobbit, asphodel headstrong)

[ironmandeficiency]

so i found my old ps2 in storage last week and bought a couple games, including this one. lemme just say this game is weird as shit — here’s why (from the first 20 minutes and change)

frodo just up and deciding to take the one ring to mordor on his/bilbo’s bday months after gandalf gives The Spiel™️ about the ring (according to the game), which makes no damn sense. to my recollection, gandalf didn’t know anything abt the nature of the ring until after bilbo’s party. speaking of-

bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday party doesn’t happen at all (isn’t even mentioned, the game only alludes to bilbo being gone with no explanation of where or why)

my theory is that maybe it’s the year after bilbo’s 111st bday that frodo decides to take the ring, which also doesn’t make sense bc of the wraiths but i digress-

what’s worse is that frodo sells bag end to lobelia fucking sackville-baggins (which i know is in the books but still, i wanted to be sick)

gandalf touched the one ring with his bare hands to toss it into the fireplace, then moments later gets in a tizzy when frodo offers the thing to gandalf

frodo was weirdly okay with gandalf threatening to turn sam into a toad for eavesdropping and joins in on the heckling

FRODO SELLING BAG END TO LOBELIA FUCKING WHAT-

i think i’ve just read too many fics that paint her as an inconsequential antagonist to bilbo and emphasize her not getting bag end

i’m gonna keep playing simply bc i’m morbidly curious. anyone that has read the books (i have them but haven’t gotten around to it yet), please enlighten me if you can explain things to my confused brain

[ironmandeficiency]

well after a cutscene of the black rider talking to gaffer gamgee, i had a convo with the gaffer and a brief pop-up saying “don’t be detected by the black rider!” and telling me to sneak. while trying to learn how to sneak, i got caught and it completely reset the game 🫥

[ironmandeficiency]

so i found my old ps2 in storage last week and bought a couple games, including this one. lemme just say this game is weird as shit — here’s why (from the first 20 minutes and change)

frodo just up and deciding to take the one ring to mordor on his/bilbo’s bday months after gandalf gives The Spiel™️ about the ring (according to the game), which makes no damn sense. to my recollection, gandalf didn’t know anything abt the nature of the ring until after bilbo’s party. speaking of-

bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday party doesn’t happen at all (isn’t even mentioned, the game only alludes to bilbo being gone with no explanation of where or why)

my theory is that maybe it’s the year after bilbo’s 111st bday that frodo decides to take the ring, which also doesn’t make sense bc of the wraiths but i digress-

what’s worse is that frodo sells bag end to lobelia fucking sackville-baggins (which i know is in the books but still, i wanted to be sick)

gandalf touched the one ring with his bare hands to toss it into the fireplace, then moments later gets in a tizzy when frodo offers the thing to gandalf

frodo was weirdly okay with gandalf threatening to turn sam into a toad for eavesdropping and joins in on the heckling

FRODO SELLING BAG END TO LOBELIA FUCKING WHAT-

i think i’ve just read too many fics that paint her as an inconsequential antagonist to bilbo and emphasize her not getting bag end

i’m gonna keep playing simply bc i’m morbidly curious. anyone that has read the books (i have them but haven’t gotten around to it yet), please enlighten me if you can explain things to my confused brain

[13personalities]

my dearest love (ao3) has befallen a great tragedy (is down for maintenance) so i must pine alone in my lonely tower (i could do something productive but i think not)