Tolkien Boy in the Modern World
I love Modern Girl in Middle Earth fics and one day when scouring the tag on AO3 I found a fic where Kíli ends up in our world and I loved it. I have been calling this trop ‘Tolkien Boy in the Modern World.’
So I am assembling a post of all the fics I have found that do this. Please, please link me more if you find them!!!
Kíli/OC
Where You Heart Lies by Thatskasterborous
Their worlds had merged momentarily, reality shattering at a single point. The walls of the two worlds melting together until something broke through. 20 year old Leah Orrison was camping with her Mother when an unexpected visitor crashed into their camp site. Now she has to deal with the fact that Middle Earth is very real and that there is a very real dwarf who needs her help.
So so good. This fic is the first one I read where a Tolkien character comes to our world and what originally put me on to this idea. And I just love it.
Thorin/OC
A Kind of Magic by Lathalea (AO3)
This was writing for an ask and it is just the cutest, fun, quick read.
Where I Belong by MiddleEarthPixie (Tumblr)
After being unexpectedly dumped the night of her firm’s Christmas party, thoroughly modern Noelle James decides to skip the festivities and go for a walk along Fifth Avenue. The last thing she expected to happen was to be accosted by a man dressed in all fur and leather carrying a lethal-looking sword and asking for her to help him find his way back to Mirkwood. As in, The Hobbit Mirkwood. But not the novel, the movie.
Thorin Oakenshield has no idea how he ended up in modern day New York City, and no idea how to get back to where he belongs. The last thing he remembers is becoming disoriented while wandering through the enchanted forest at Mirkwood. He stumbled forward and out of his world into one wholly foreign to him. And now he has to rely on this one woman to help him. And neither one of them was at all prepared for things not quite going as they were supposed to…
This is the second fic I read under the same trope. It’s so well done and a fun read. I am such a sucker for cultural misunderstanding/exchange and this fic has lots.
Fíli/OC
My fic which I posted Monday!:
Young Man's Fancy was Turned into the Spring
Fíli son of Víli and Dís, brother to Kíli and sister-son and heir to Thorin Oakenshield has gone missing without a trace. While his family in the Blue Mountains mourn him, the young prince finds himself in a world different from the one he has always known.
No pairing
Dwarves always Knock Thrice by GaurdianofRivendell
Another really fun quick read. Kíli and Fíli feature in it and get up to all sorts of shenanigans.
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Authors: @lathalea, @guardianofrivendell, @middleearthpixie