#bilbo feels

[caffeineheroes]

Inspired by this post.

I honestly believe that Bilbo would never have returned to the Shire had Thorin survived. Especially movie!Bilbo. He may have gone back to get some personal things–though maybe not because this adventure was really about how material items aren’t important!–but he would have stayed in Erebor. Or at least adventured elsewhere! He didn’t belong in the Shire and he wouldn’t have gone back there to live indefinitely.

His not-belonging in the Shire is even more obvious when you find out in FotR that Bilbo had lots of admirers but no actual friends until Frodo came along. That’s right. He wasn’t just ‘Mad Baggins.’ I mean he was, but there were plenty of Hobbits that did want to befriend Bilbo. But it was a no-go for Bilbo. He was the one that didn’t feel like he belonged.

Yet despite all that, Bilbo goes back to the Shire. Why?? Thorin wasn’t his ONLY friend– he had many, if not all, of the other Company members as friends. He wouldn’t have been alone or unwelcome in Erebor. Even Bard and Thranduil would have welcomed Bilbo. But don’t forget Thorin’s last words in the film: “Go back to your books and your armchair, plant your trees, watch them grow…”

AND WHAT DOES BILBO DO? THAT! He does that. Because they were Thorin’s last words and (especially during that time period/in literary mythology) you follow the instructions of a dying person’s last wishes. And of course this wasn’t the dying wish of just anyone, but Thorin. His friend.

[caffeineheroes]

My whole life since I have told the tales of my journey, but I have spoken so little of Thorin, and now almost none remain who remember him. I fear that I have doomed his memory to oblivion, because I held it too close all these years.

Bilbo in One Single Sunlit Day More by feverishsea

[yana125]

Bilbo: "I bid you all a very fond farewell."

I'm done with you, movie. I'm done with you.

[yana125]

I'm watching the Fellowship of the Ring the first time after The Battle of the Five Armies. I thought I was ready. Seventeen minutes in and guess what? I was not.

[linddzz]

Ok but let's talk about how Bilbo never really quite fit in the Shire. How he loves it and it's home, but he's by himself, sitting within his garden and it's pretty clear before the dwarves set up that this is normal. He's a hermited shut in who probably is never really fully comfortable around the hobbits. Because he's a bit too clever and sharp-witted and sarcastic for his own good. Because he was raised wild by a bright Took of a mother and then grew into all the expectations of being a Baggins of Bag end. And as that responsibility and social standing sets in he withdraws. He never manages to get rid of his sarcasm or sharp tongue but he learns to hide it. To keep his thoughts behind forced, polite small talk but he's still jumpy and awkward and if something falls outside his script he starts stammering and the temper gets harder and harder to hold. Let's talk about how he made himself stop pretending to go on adventures, how he told himself that stories were really all he wanted, all he needed. How a few times he probably started talking too much about some great ancient tale he's been reading, and he could see others fidgeting and uncomfortable. So that's another part he kept down. Let's talk about when he was on the road, drenched and cold and terrified, he had never felt more like Bilbo Baggins and less like Mister Baggins in his life.

[wine-loving-vagabond-blog]

I still haven't recovered from the reaching and entering the mountain scenes, intense and emotional. I mean Balin was crying and how Thorin looks at him for some explanation when the keyhole doesn't appear, 'I remember these halls'. 

Then Bilbo and Smaug, nearest thing to perfection in this movie.

Not recovered at all.

[eunjiwon]

I'm now torn between two hobbits!

I mean I've always loved Bilbo, but Pippin is sooo adorable! I love them both! They are my favorite hobbitses! Little, cutesy hobbitses... I want them both on top of my list of favorite hobbits!