#hobbit thoughts

[whiteladyofithilien]

I will say this the scene where Tauriel has the most resonance is the last one she appears in. Her conversation with King Thranduil was the scene where she actually had some pathos and made you feel something for her. And that is due chiefly to the fact that it's playing off Thranduil's backstory (seeing as Tauriel has none because bad writing) and because you know he's lost the love of his life his acknowledgement of her love for Kili being real is more evidence than anything she's shown us hitherto that moment. Plus in this scene the writers are playing on a frequent Tolkienian theme of life and love being worthwhile even if you have to suffer or lose that which you loved. So it makes you feel because it's got a deep theme it's not just wistful stares and stabbing people trying to get to the person you care about which was all the Kili-Tauriel romance had been up to that point (that and one conversation about a rock)

[asgardianhobbit98]

Something about these dying roses speaks volumes on the beauty of ageing

Like look how the colour complements the red? It's gorgeous

[mariniacipher]

also, on elrond not wanting merry and pippin to go, i think it’s so interesting how gandalf agrees with him that the hobbits dont know what they’re getting into-

but that he should trust their friendship to get them through, and not shame them for maybe being unable to walk into this danger is they knew all that could happen

like. i think it’s really sweet, and speaks to the nature of hobbits: they will not willingly walk into deadly peril, or it will at least be very difficult for them to do

(see: frodo taking so much time to get used to the idea of leaving the shire for rivendell, having to put everything to order beforehand, or even the fact that bilbo had to be dragged on his adventure to actually go on it)

but they will certainly walk wherever needed with and for their friends

(see: the plan the other hobbits hatched to go with frodo and help him)

and i do think that this is the thing to count on- bc hobbits are hardier than you’d think and they can survive a whole lot and still go out for a pint together afterwards and enjoy some good food even more, bc they now know how to do without

and they never would’ve chosen that, but they certainly are able to cope with it. and that does deserve to be recognised and respected, if u ask me

[modernlotrhobbitthoughts]

A Short Collection of Some of the Thoughts I Had While Watching the Hobbit Trilogy This Weekend:

[sunnyrosewritesstuff]

So I’ve been doing a little hobbit genealogy in my spare time, and I would like to point out that: Bungo and Belladonna were not the first Baggins/Took pairing...even for the generation.

Pippin’s great-grandfather, Hildigrim (Belladonna’s older brother) marries Rosa Baggins and they have a son Adalgrim. This is part of my inspiration for making Adalgrim and Bilbo friends in Once Upon a Dream. 

But...with that being said. Adalgrim is born a Took. He’s allowed his Tookish tendencies, and if his mother’s Baggins genes mellow him out, then all the better where Bilbo is in the exact opposite situation. He was born a Baggins. Specifically the head of the Baggins family. 

All this to say, I just wonder if Bilbo looked at his older cousin as both a safe space and with envy. Like, “you understand how I feel with our relatives on both sides...but you don’t ever have to reign yourself in. You don’t have to be half of yourself.” 

🤔 🥺

[whiteladyofithilien]

I would not mind the insertion of Tauriel so much if she wasn't such an obvious Mary Sue perfect at everything personality of flour paste fanfiction insert.

Give her a personality that's not just the embodiment of twenty different tropes and I wouldn't mind her non-canon existence at all.

And it's a shame too because Evangeline is a really good actress and she deserved better. And we the audience deserved better than a hastily glue-sticked together creation of a female character. It's like Tauriel was the beginning of the "let's invent the most lazily written female character ever and then call people sexist when they say they don't like her" trend that culminated with the third Star Wars trilogy

[cigarettebuttlift]

who . am . i

i am who

everyone is

going to be

wrong about

[rolllikefish]

I still like Smaug’s little pep talk to himself on his way to commit crimes