#hobbit book

[mystery-star]

I know Tolkien didn't mean those thongs but I can't get the picture out of my head now.

[mountainharpist]

I love that in the book at Beorn's Gandalf goes out to track bears all night and then refuses to answer any questions until he's eaten two whole loaves of bread covered in honey, butter, and cream

[too-many0-0fandoms]

I found the famous Dutch translation of the Hobbit on the back of my shelf today :)

[deadthingposting]

I started to read the hobbit

Thoughts

-i fell in love with book thorin instantly

-book Bilbo is nice as well

-also dwalin he is so sweet

-they fucking carried Bilbo in the goblin caves

-why no one recognizes that Tolkien was amazing on writing comedy

-dwarves *sing a song basically explaining what's going on" Bilbo*-i can help maybe but what's going on* Thorin*-you dumb bitch we just told you*

-gandalf *-yeah your father gave me the key when I found him in the necromancer cave* thorin *-and what the fuck you were doing in the necromancer cave?* Gandalf*-none of your business*

- book thorin just don't giving a fuck and basically demanding breakfast casually

-i loved valfenda, also it says it's welcoming to any one's needs, so it's adorable to think that even the dwarves felt welcomed there

-they did however roasted everyone in the company apparently which is hilarious imagine being called a dumb bitch by some weirdos and then spending fourteen days as their guests

-no one can talk to me about fucking world building when it's Canon on Tolkien's universe that the trolls coin purse fucking talks

-again book thorin is a delight

[godzilla-reads]

[FIRST WORDS]

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

--J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

[cienie-isengardu]

@erenaeoth replied to A bit about orcs

I remember when I was little and my father first read my brother and I Lord of the Rings, an eye-opening part for me was when Sam and Frodo were in Mordor. We saw that the orcs weren’t just homogenous bad guys but had entire social structures to their society. There was infighting and different appearances depending on alliegence. And some were more cunning and frightening whilst others were only interested in brute force. The whole destruction of the ring was only possible because Sam and Frodo (mostly Sam), were able to do some fast orc anthropology and play sides off against each other to escape from various sticky situations.

Tokien’s never been too good on the whole if it looks ugly it’s evil thing (although I suppose one could talk about it paying homage to fairytales rather than trying to emulate real life), but I always liked the complexities he brought to the hoardes of orcs and the individuality he gave them when someone bothered to stop and look at them up close.

Oh, that moment in book was great too! My personal favorite moment of such eye-opening part was in Two Tower, where Uruk-Hai and the other orcs argued what to do about captured Hobbits. I always liked it for two reasons. One, it shows how diverse orcs were and Two, Ugluk called his enemy [Boromir] as “the great warrior” and frankly, I don’t remember if any human or elf even bothered to call something similar anyone who wasn’t their friend / ally. This moment when orc shows respect for a man that fought to death and who killed many Uruk Hai warriors always stirs many emotions in me. In some ironic ways, Ugluk showed more respected to his enemy that any man or elf showed him or his kinsmen.

Then again, Hobbit book mentioned that orcs know how to count and that  some “wicked” dwarves made alliance with goblins/orcs (due to similar interest in machinery??) and in LotR trilogy somehow people of Darkness and orcs were capable of working together too, not to mention how orcs living in Insengard called Saruman “Sharkey” that in Black Speech means Old Man or that “Orcs will often pursue foes for many leagues into the plain, if they have a fallen captain to avenge.” info makes me really wonder how little human folks & elves really know - or bothered to know - about orcs through so many ages.

It’s sad thing for me that orcs were the most hated race while at the same time there are those little informations that shows how orc culture(s) may be an interesting thing to study more closely. If one bother to do so.

[elithilanor]

So far Beorn is my favorite character in the Hobbit

[crossingbaranduin]

@ y’all who have read The Hobbit: are there any details or bits that are only in the book, not the movie, that you particularly like? I’m on my first read (have a lot of “sit around and wait” shifts at work this week, haha) and want to know what to look out for! : )