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Hello and welcome!

If you're here for Bagginshield, please consider checking out the Bagginshield Book Club Discord server. We read and discuss a new fic each week, chat about life and the love of Hobbits and Dwarrow, and there's a curated library with links to dozens of outstanding fics. All of my Bagginshield reblogs will now be on the book clubs blog:

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 1 · Since June of 2023, each week we have discussed a fanfiction work set in the world of Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'. Come chat ab

For more Bagginshield content you can also check out my handful of works (written and art) on ao3, as well as my bookmarks. I've been trying to save and comment on every work that moved me for whatever reason, but I often forget. Currently at 370+ Bagginshield, ~120 Johnlock, and some Drarry and Merthur in the back.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I've posted a few Bagginshield works to AO3, both solo and collaborations. My current big solo project is a secret dwobbit fix-it called, "Dear Your Majasty Mister Oakensheild" (yes it will get completed... eventually lol)

I'm also available sometimes to beta read works for authors. I'm happy to offer input if I have the time. With four young kids I do not always have the time, but please don't let that stop you from asking! It's one of my very favorite things to do 🥰

boromirthedad

sartorialadventure

Traditional hairstyles of the Fula people (or Fulani or Fulɓe)

1, 2: Guinea

4: 1959 Burkina Faso

6: c. 1920

7: Burkina Faso

8. Central Guinea

9. Dalaba, French Guinea (now Guinea)

10. Fouta Djallon, Central Guinea, ca 1955

angelofghetto

hogy alszanak ezekbe?

sartorialadventure

“How do they sleep?”

Like this!

Wooden headrests elevate the neck and head to ensure elaborate braids, beads, and cowrie shells remain pristine and protected from dust and the ground. Elevating the head off the ground in semi-arid Sahel regions also helps improve airflow and keeps the sleeper cooler during the night.

Headrests are apparently used in a lot of regions of Africa. Here’s a Mwila woman demonstrating hers:

87-pounds-deactivated20160310

my sense of humor: getting birthday cards with the wildly incorrect age on it for people

magicoftelevision

thebagelhut

I see this and raise you: getting cards for a wildly different occasion and customizing them to fit the holiday you need

motherhenna

discount-butlins

oakh4rt

throwback to the time my partner put in his 2 week notice with a birthday card for a 2 year old

silly-slacker-person

King

kkshowtunes

Once I got a card that said “BEST GREAT GRANPA EVER!!”

I’m a teenager

unscharf-an-den-raendern

red-signal

WHO’S TURNING CHRISTMAS

shantismurf

The random doodle Christmas tree is what makes it real.

userfish

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

creez-un-compte

Your monkeys ?

thereisalesbianintheforest

those aren’t mine.

pikestaff

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

themythicalcodfish

To wit:

switchelsweets

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

magnuspeccatori

This is the most inspirational thing I've read all week. Possibly all year

dirtgemini

after i made this post i…well. things happened

in case you don’t want to go read it for explanation; this is the secondary wedding which they travel to the shire for at bilbo’s insistence. it takes them a few years to get everything organized but, being in a time of peace, the kingdom (left with fili and balin in charge) survives well enough without them for a few months. many bells, many flowers, much dancing, much ale

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #thorin oakenshield #bagginshield #thorin x bilbo #thilbo

thedwarrowscholar

Neo-Khuzdul Lessons A Brand New Structured Course in the Language of the Dwarves

The Neo-Khuzdul Beginner Course arrives on Patreon May 24th, 2026.

Nine structured lessons will guide students from the foundations of the language to practical conversation, grammar, sentence formation, pronunciation, listening exercises, and much more, supported by detailed lesson documents, audio material, exercises, flashcards, and a student Discord community.

Lessons release weekly between May 24th and July 19th, though the course can be followed entirely at your own pace both during and after that period.

This is not simply a list of fantasy words. The course is built to teach Neo-Khuzdul as a structured and usable language.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dwarrowscholar

Ever at your service, Roy The Dwarrow Scholar

#thedwarrowscholar #neo-khuzdul #neo khuzdul #dwarvish #the hobbit #lord of the rings #tolkien #dwarves

thedwarrowscholar

The Gates Are Open

After much thought and consideration, I have decided to make a permanent change to how the Dwarrow Scholar project operates. Effective immediately, all Dwarrow Scholar Neo-Khuzdul lessons, grammar resources, and educational materials, both past and future, are now completely FREE for everyone.

Over the years, this project has grown far beyond what I originally imagined. What began as a personal fascination became a community effort involving learners, readers, researchers, and Tolkien enthusiasts from around the world. Because of that, I have come to believe that the best and only future for this work is one where it remains freely accessible to everyone who wishes to learn from it.

My goal has always been the preservation, development, and sharing of Neo-Khuzdul. By removing all paywalls, I hope to help ensure that this work remains available to both current and future generations of learners.

Patreon will remain the primary home of the course, with new lessons, downloads, grammar files, exercises, dictionaries, and supporting materials continuing to be released here. In the coming months, I will also begin releasing the lesson videos publicly on YouTube, allowing even more people to discover and learn the language. Furthermore, the website itself is currently undergoing an overhaul, which will include the addition of nearly 100 new and updated documents.

To everyone who has supported this project over the years, thank you. Your support helped fund the research, hosting, software, lesson creation, videos, voice actors, artwork, website development, and countless hours that made these resources possible. Quite simply, much of what exists today would not exist without you.

This work has never truly belonged to me alone. It has become part of a wider community of learners, enthusiasts, and friends, and I am incredibly proud of what we have built together.

The gates are open, and they shall remain open.

Ever at your service,

The Dwarrow Scholar

shantismurf

I cannot recommend these courses enough, and now they are free! I worry that it may be harder for people to stick with them and finish them out, but it's really worth getting the whole picture, if you can make it through. The classes are very well-structured and thoughtfully produced with so much content! If you're interested in Neo-Khuzdul, it's an amazing resource!

#thedwarrowscholar #neo khuzdul

femdemon

How are we at a point now where "trans men and transmascs don't experience gender euphoria" is a real fucking take that I'm seeing people post and agree with? "Oh, trans men and transmascs will never understand the moment when you finally put on a dress or skirt and feel like yourself-" chest binders. Packers. Getting a short haircut. Being called "sir" by a stranger instead of "miss" or "ma'am." Growing facial hair. What's even really being said here, that we don't experience gender euphoria, or that our gender euphoria is less significant?

alarajrogers

Weirdly, I believe this is a knock-on effect of misogyny.

See, if women aren't real people, then the things that gender-mark women are real gender markers that identify them as not-people, but the things that gender-mark men are just normal people things, not gendered. Because the male gender doesn't exist, it's just women and people.

So you can't be gender-euphoric about becoming a man; all you're doing is shedding gender and becoming a genderless "normal person", because normal person is male.

It is really really weird that misogyny against women ends up, through a circuitous route, as redefining men as genderless, but this is the effect of generations of men being "normal" and women being "gendered".

Trans men, of course, know better; they can clearly see the gender marked-ness of masculinity, and feel euphoria when they reach it, because they're specifically looking for it. But cis men don't see it because women are the gender-marked class, and trans women might not see it for that reason and because they've been trying to achieve gender-markedness. Maybe they haven't put enough thought into the construction of the gender they're trying to leave behind to recognize that in fact masculinity is marked. (Any enby could have told them that, but it can be genuinely hard to recognize how marked masculinity is because even feminism falls into the trap of "women are the gender marked class and everyone else is just a person".)

Given how hard people have to fight to be seen as "manly" you'd think we'd all understand how very gender-marked masculinity is... but the fight to be manly is often constructed as the fight to not be womanly. Like, this is how normal people behave, and this is how girls behave, and you don't want to be a girl, do you?

"Trans men don't experience gender euphoria" needs to be called out as a belief that's caused by patriarchy, and a form of internal misogyny if it's a woman (cis or trans) saying it. It's the belief that only women have gender... which comes from the belief that only men are normal humans.

the-haiku-bot

Weirdly, I believe

this is a knock-on effect

of misogyny.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

#haiku bot #haiku bot always gets to the core of a post

kateammann

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

#artists on tumblr #art #digital art #illustration #pride art #pride month #queer artist #wildlife art #animal art

cremsie

There's so much to be proud of!

cosmicretreat

strawberry-crocodile

the thing about capitalism is that at a certain point a product reaches its maximum audience and cant really be improved (at least not while remaining profitable), but capitalism requires a product provide infinite growth, and at that point the only way to increase profits is to raise prices, cut corners, and in the case of services start adding advertisements. this is just how the system works.

charyou-tree

Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

The actual economic term for this parasitic behavior is "Rent Seeking", as in "charging you rent for things that didn't used to cost money just because we can."

porphyriosao3

This is what Cory Doctorow refers to as "enshittification", which I think sounds much better than rent-seeking and explains itself more effectively.

shantismurf

Indeed, it does.

shantismurf

Wow two years later this post both ages well and depresses the shit out of me. We've upgraded to Rent-Seeking at the governmental level! 😩

tolhimling

check out sauron's new pride flag

#mairon #sauron #celebrimbor #silmarillion #art reblog #good old celebrimbanner

sherlockholmeson

Richard Armitage on Bilbo and Thorin cut out Rivendell scene

I love the scene in the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey where Thorin overhears the reservations which Gandalf and Elrond are discussing about the dragon sickness; that Thror and Thrain both succumbed, and how do we know that Thorin’s not going to succumb. It was so true to life; I thought it was just like if one had parents and grandparents who’ve had Alzheimer’s, and you’re facing that fear … it just seemed very real, very true.

Yeah. Actually, that was at the end of a much longer scene, which I played with Bilbo on those steps, where I talked about where I was born, and seeing fireflies on the roof; being born in darkness, underground; and then it cuts to that overheard conversation. And you realise that his childhood has been quite claustrophobic and insular, in terms of his upbringing and being raised as a prince, very much under the control of his father and his grandfather. I really worked hard on a very close relationship with Thror, because what I felt was that when we do get into those moments with the dragon sickness, later into movie three, I wanted Thorin to have been very, very close to Thror when he was going through that. Like he was almost nursing him through it, so he’s seen evidence of what it was like; so when it starts to manifest itself in him, he knows exactly what’s happening to him, and it’s terrifying.

sherlockholmeson

Why oh why it didn’t make to extended edition? :(

gorbling

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

gorbling

hapalopus

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