Mar 14, 2025
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Rivendale
Were you aware that Bilbo Baggins wears boots in the wilds during his adventure?
Here are Tolkien's illustrations of Bilbo during the Hobbit:
By the way, my favorite illustrations are canon illustrations.
Too bad he didn't draw many of the LOTR characters. To be fair, though, I basically draw every character EXCEPT my OCS. And we all have our weak points. Mine happens to be backgrounds.
Anyway, here is proof that the boots really did happen, written by Tolkien himself in Letter 27
'There is in the text no mention of his acquiring of boots. There should be! It has dropped out somehow or other in the various revisions -- the booting occurred at Rivendell; and he was once again bootless after leaving Rivendell on the way home.' JRRT
Yes, he really did wear boots! Even though it seems the hobbits in LOTR never wore them. I guess their soles are as tough and warm as that you might see on a hare.
I can only imagine this is how it went.
*Bilbo arrives in Rivendale*
The elves: You can't cross the Misty Mountains without boots! You'll hurt your feet!
Bilbo: No really, there is no need. I can't take those.
The elves: But we made them just for you! They are just your size.
Bilbo at this point in the story is too polite to refuse and learns how to wear boots even though he doesn't need them to avoid offending the elves.
When he starts living in Rivendale at age 111, he tells the elves about the incident and they all have a laugh about it, swearing never to offer a pair of boots to a hobbit again.
old empires fanart I forgot to finish
y’all ever think about that when Aragorn decided to live the Ranger lifestyle and first came home to Rivendale from a long expedition, how absolutely DISGUSTED in him all his family would be???
like “hug me, ‘Dan!”
“Estel, you are absolutely disgusting right now, I will do no such thing.”
Cause that’s so fuckin funny to me
In honor of Empires S2, Empires S1 world map!
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