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I am doing what must be my 10th reread of A Passion for Mushrooms and I just wanted to say how absolutely incredible that fic is.

The characterisation of Bilbo, the worldbuilding and the wonderful heart of it just give me so much joy.

Thank you so much for writing it.

You are much too kind! Thank you. I continue to be amazed by the love that silly little story about finding mushrooms in the Lonely Mountain gets.

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When or how do you like Thorin and Bilbo to get together the best? Is there a certain spot in the story like after Rivendale? Or is there an action that you prefer to kick off the relationship?

*Asks are for fun, no pressure

With a well told story, when two people are suited for one another, does it matter? Every iteration has it's charms. Post canon is classic, because the mutual betrayals seem so much more painful if they've already reached a romantic understanding. That's probably my preference for a fluffy fix-it addressing such a tragic ending to their canon adventures.

And yet.

Those betrayals really are so much worse if they are romantically entangled. What if Bilbo kissed Thorin to distract him when the dwarf somehow almost noticed the arkenstone in his possession? What if Bilbo returned to Erebor in the night, guilt ridden, and they made love before Thorin tried to strangle him and throw him to his death?

Whenever works for the story you want to tell. 💖

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y'all ever vacillate back and forth on using courtesy names in a modern AU to the point where you use find and replace? Because I did a replace all without making it case sensitive. Some interesting new typos in my document: ▪️buWuxian ▪️paWuxian ▪️obeWuxian

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

Happy Birthday to Bilbo and Frodo! I spent the day writing to celebrate.

Fandom: The Hobbit Pairing: Bagginshield, background Frodo/Sam Rating: Gen Word Count: 3,184 Summary: Thorin Oakenshield needs to speak with the proprietor of a local flower shop. Some piddling allergies won't be enough to stand in his way.

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Besides how you've written it before (unless that is your absolute favorite idea), how do you or would you headcannon Bilbo and Thorin accidentally proposing or getting engaged and how would they proceed when they find out or the other accepts the proposal?

Among hobbits, these things tend to be done quietly. Sensibly. Oh, the Tooks have their own ways, and every once in a while a Brandybuck will cause something of a to-do at a birthday party. But good manners in Hobbiton necessitate that such private affairs are, well, private.

Two young people who have been walking out together for some time reach an agreement. Parents are told. Then siblings are told. Then wedding invitations are written and good natured gossip handles the rest. In all honesty, once he reached fifty as a respectable bachelor, Bilbo Baggins felt he was quite safe from anything of the sort ever applying to him.

The point is, that if something of that sort happened to him, it ought to have been a discrete, blushing conversation with a person whom he had "gone a' courting" as it were.

Thorin was holding court. That was something very different and not at all related aside from any esoteric linguistic comparisons. Thorin was sitting on his ridiculous throne in front of hundreds of dwarves talking about taxes and zoning regulations and Balin's schedule for renovating a particularly sacred hall. Then Thorin just turns to Bilbo and says, "You and I will marry in August."

Thorin Oakenshield! How like that awful dwarf to not even make it a question. To just say such a bold thing in front of hundreds of people and expect Bilbo to agree. All of Bilbo's hobbit heart wants to wriggle and blush and despair at hearing something like that from a person he hasn't ever even kissed. Unfortunately, he was sadly used to Thorin's utter lack of manners.

And he was a Baggins.

"April 26," he corrected. "I'm terrible with anniversaries; I shan't bother remembering two."

Nodding regally, with just a hint of red coloring the cheeks above his beard, Thorin turned back to Balin. "Plenty of time to restore the masonry properly, then."

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It most certainly is, @amloveabledeathmo!

Molten gold poured from the crucible into Bilbo’s little mold. He was rather proud of that mold. Making the figure he wanted out of wax was as simple as shaping marzipan, but getting that to imprint in clay was tricky work. A dozen needed to be shattered before he came up with this one. As the metal coolled and set, Bilbo watched it carefully.

After an interminable wait, the hobbit broke open the mold. There it was: a perfect golden acorn. Something impermanent now made everlasting in the traditional dwarven style. He hoped Thorin would understand his meaning this time.

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Pretty sure this is a lyric from a song but not positive, "I'm better as a memory than as your man."

I can really picture it for Bagginshield, especially in the healing tents after the battle of the five armies. I think it works well as a line coming from Thorin, perhaps when he wakes up after Ravenhill and Bilbo is like don't you dare! You are not going to decide for me if you are a better memory than a romantic partner. I expect all the courtship after you have recovered or so help me, Mahal will not save you from my wrath. So of course Thorin has to recover.

Any opinions on this scenario? Who do you think would use the line? Any other pairings you think it would work for?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

I looked it up, and apparently this is a lyric from a Kenny Chesney song. Unfortunately, this immediately put me in mind of Merle Highchurch from The Adventure Zone and now I can't take it seriously as a Bagginshield story at all.

Yes, obviously you're correct and I can't really improve on your Battle of Five Armies set up here. Thorin, asking Bilbo to remember him as he passes on. Bilbo, disagreeing with that assessment. It's all very dramatic and colored by a terrible death wish. But there are two scenarios where someone says "I'm better as a memory than your man," and I think the other is much funnier.

Consider Merle Highchurch, a beach dwarf and cleric of Pan, telling his ex-wife, "I move on like a sinner's prayer."

"My only friends are pirates," he says to Lucretia as they sit buried in mud at a spa. She nods regally. She knows his friends very well, after all.

"I'm built to fade like your favorite song, getting reckless when there's no need," he shouts over the din of battle, as Magnus rushes in.

"What's that, my Dude?" asks Taako.

"Never sure when the truth won't do."

"Bud, that is practically always," the wizard informs him sagely. "Keep your truths to yourself and let me do the talking."

"I move on the way a storm blows through," he informs his stepdaughter Mavis. She glares at him, unimpressed, until he quickly adds, "I never stay, but then again, I might."

Merle Highchurch is the kind of dwarf who would truly believe that he's better as a memory than as a man. Because his memories tell him that goodbyes are like a roulette wheel and that bouncing ball always lands on loss. This is a song about someone who doesn't stay, who can't commit.

I don't think that's Thorin Oakenshield.

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