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The number of acorns around me is growing uncontrollably.

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The Heart of the Mountain and the heart of Thorin

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Bagginshield (head)canon

Ok but at the end of acorn scene just before Dwalin interrupts and Bilbo says Thorin's name,,,, He was soooooo about to confess and it was the PERFECT moment but Dwalin had to come in 😭

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I haven’t been posting all my tolkientober drawings over here because lots of them are bad, but this one is good, so here u go! Favorite scene was the prompt

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A little acorn scene meta

So I’ve been studying the acorn scene again (I mean who isn’t, right?), and something interesting popped up I hadn’t noticed before, and it’s the way Martin delivers Bilbo’s line, “I’m going to plant it in my garden ... in Bag End.” I don’t know if those two parts of the sentence were written to have a pause between them, but that definitely comes across in delivery. Not only that, but there’s a shift in Bilbo’s manner going from one to the other.

It could be Bilbo is a little shy about sharing the acorn with Thorin because he guesses that Thorin won’t think much of it--he’s in a mountain filled with, just, SO MUCH gold and stuff, and yet he’s sitting here making plans with an acorn. And his guess is initially right. Thorin responds, “A poor prize to take back to the Shire,” which prompts Bilbo to justify it with his “one day it will grow” speech.

But Bilbo isn’t at peak embarrassment until he says, “in Bag End.” For the rest of the time, with a little shuffling, he more or less holds eye contact. It’s only when he says, “... in Bag End,” that his gaze drops. Why?

I think it’s not the acorn that he’s really uncomfortable about. It’s that he’s reminding Thorin that he’s not staying in Erebor permanently. He’s going to have to return to the Shire. But why should this make him uneasy? Of course he’s going back to the Shire. It’s his home. And yet it’s like Bilbo doesn’t want to mention it. Maybe he’s worried it will sound bad to Thorin--make it sound like he’s abandoning Thorin in his dragon sickness. Or maybe Bilbo finds it awkward to vocalize how he’s going to have to leave his friends--to leave Thorin--after all they’ve been through and how much they’ve grown to care about each other.

I bet Bilbo considered all that when he picked up the acorn. The choice of an acorn, the nut of an oak tree, is deliberate both on a character level and a storytelling level. Of course he was going to miss his friends when, or if, he went back to the Shire. So he picked an acorn as a source of comfort and a reminder of them. Especially of Thorin.

Well. That was fun.

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Richard Armitage on Thorin’s dragon sickness and filming of the acorn scene

“You need to feel that everything’s at stake because Thorin’s mind has left him and they’re in trouble. A sickness of the mind is… it had to feel like it was a temporary thing that he could recover from. Because in order to leave the mountain in the end and go to war, he did have to come back from a place he descended to. So, yeah, we definitely played it as a sickness, as a mental illness.

I quite liked playing some of the psychotic moments. They wrote so brilliantly for Thorin as well, Pete, Fran and Phil. They would come, we’d play a scene, and then a few weeks later they’d come back with another scene. They wrote a scene between Thorin and Bilbo… because it was very important to them to tighten up that relationship. Thorin becomes very isolationist in the Mountain, and he becomes quite obsessed with Bilbo, that everyone else is betraying him except him.

They wrote some incredible scenes between Thorin and Bilbo. You really get to see Thorin weighed down by this cloud of doubt and these glimmers of… you see the old Thorin, you see him nearly come back, and then he just gets lost again.

So, it was just, you know, a joy to play those scenes with someone who is fevered in the mind, but there are these moments of clarity. It’s just great to play that”.

- Interview to All Film Magazine (x) (x)