#Hobbit Pets

[ao3dracien]

Yes, I'm starting another fic while I've still got three or four already going. There my fics and I'll do whatever I want with them.

This bag of cats was made possible for the very kind commenters that asked nicely about my progress. I'm sorry it took so long. But I'm hoping with shorter chapters, I will be able to post more regularly.

Probably not, but here's to hoping.

[tondw0o]

[logicallyblind]

my absolute favourite favourite favourite trope in fanfic is when thorin is outwardly a grouchy, ill tempered scowling dwarf whom bilbo just silently watches from afar lamenting the fact that someone like That would never give someone like Him the time of day-

and then the perspective shifts to thorin and we get to just listen to this smitten fool plan out their wedding in extreme detail all while waxing poetry about the sunlight shining through bilbo’s curls in his mind i just,,

[cat-cosplay]

[lucradiss]

Existing in more than one fandom space is like having more than one group of friends but both of them being so wildly different that any overlap at all would be like getting shot in the head

[multi-bookworm]

Okay look.

I know that in the hobbit Smaug is the biiig enemy blah blah blah manslaughtering dragon blah blah dAnGeRoUs blah blah- BUT...

...

His name is adorable not going to lie...

Smaug 😍

Like-

I'd name my rabbit smaug, I'd name my little turtle smaug! it's just so damned CUTE!!

If I didn't know any better I'd assume they were talking about those tiny Asian lizards with wings at the mention of "smaug" and "dragon"

(And yes, for those who didn't know these lizards even existed they fucking do and it changed my life. We have literal dragons amongst us. Tiny little ones. BUT STILL DRAGONS. they are called Draco lizards :D)

[magicforestcore]

Grew up with a model-railway-guy so this seems super doable!

Although, surprised the cat is using it and using it nicely 😂

Pictured Is a small paper mache replica of the hobbit hole for cats to use as a hide. The stages of creation are shown in multiple images. The final picture shows the cat sleeping inside the hobbit hole.

[ach-sss-no]

Oh so this is what 'lotro boromir occasionally has some weird writing that feels like the writers hate him' meant

dude i think he knows their names

[basil--and--sage]

Fili all chill with a pot on his head and oven mitts on his hands calmly herding a Raccoon back out while Kili is standing screaming on a kitchen chair is the TRUEST THING EVER!!! ( and I do believe upon seeing the wee beastie at first Kili was all like awww how Cute! C'mere, pss-pss-pss like he was calling a cat, and when the non- cat turned and hissed at him THEN the jumping and screaming commenced! Sometimes all Fili can do is shake his head at his Little Brother )

"Brother, stand back and do not fear."

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

Sorry, Eagles, Dragons, and Beorn & Elwing can talk, they're not pets.

[jtargaryen18]

Help a rescue cat?

From Changeling Press. One of our staff has a pet emergency. Will's beloved rescue cat, Hobbit, is very ill, & we wish to raise funds to him the best medical care we can. $2500 is needed so Hobbit can start his care as soon as possible. Thank you!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-hobbitt-get-urgent-medical-care

[tondw0o]

He is definitely not fond of these pets Kíli and Fíli brought home....

Well one of them doesn't like to be excluded... 😶

Revenge!!!!!!

[godzilla-reads]

I wonder if this graphic novel will do the classic story justice- only one way to find out.

Wish me luck reading The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel, illustrated by David Wenzel and adapted by Charles Dixon.

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

Unpopular? Problematic? Opinion

I'm kinda new in Arda so maybe it's just me? It's something I haven't found out yet in the fandom? I'm honestly not sure because I'm the only one having a problem (not really a problem, just a pet peeve, I think?) with it, but...

(forgive my English, it's past midnight here and I'm eepy)

what is it that the fandom has with genderbending(or revealing they were the opposite gender all along) specific characters? and I mean Bilbo Baggins and dwarves specifically. I haven't seen a genderbent elf or human yet, but again I may be wrong.

It feels really weird because I've mostly (almost always) seen it happen when one of those characters was to be shipped with someone(of the same gender). And also I've actually only seen it with Bilbo, Ori, and Narvi (but, once more, I'm new so this might be inaccurate). I genuinely don't understand why? It doesn't bring anything to the plot except perhaps implying that dwarves can't tell dwarrow and dwarrowdams apart which actually only applies to literally all the other races. It feels so wrong to cancel mlm relationships by changing a character's canon gender.

I also don't like using non-canon pronouns(/gender) for characters in general because it feels like I'm misgendering them but that's a personal opinion.

But perhaps I'm just imagining things. So I'm genuinely asking if I've missed something or if it's just me not really understanding fanfictions/fandoms. Especially since I've only seen this happen with those specific characters, maybe someone can tell me whether it's true or not.

Idk if this makes sense, hopefully I wasn't disrespectful and didn't offend anyone.

Pls be nice I'm just a confused newcomer

[tathrin]

My little Tolkien-fic pet-peeve of the day? Writers calling elves, dwarves, or hobbits men or women in their* narration.

"Pippin shaded his eyes, squinting until the sight of the man walking up the road resolved itself into the familiar form of his cousin Merry..."

Hobbit. Just say Hobbit. You don't need to gender everything. Or if you must, then "Hobbit-lad" or "Hobbit-lass" how's that? Or person! Being! Individual! Literally any word that isn't an inaccurate use of the word "man" for someone who is not a man!

"Gimli looked up at the taller man and scoffed at the sight of Legolas's pointed ears, now drooping with dismay..."

See this one just sounds silly, doesn't it? Silly and also confusing! Because you've just called Legolas a man, but clearly you're talking about an elf or he wouldn't have pointed ears, now would he? And Gimli's a dwarf! So why did you say "man" at all? There are no men here! (Unless Aragorn is playing Third Wheel in the background I suppose, but that's neither here-nor-there right now.)

"Glorfindel turned upon the edge of the fountain and greeted the other man with a smile like a sunrise..."

No no no stop, they are not men. Neither of them are men. They're elves. That's kind of a big important plot element in fact, that the Firstborn and the Secondborn are distinct and sundered from one another, please don't call elves men it's weird and awkward and often confusing because then I'll think you're talking about "A Man" but no, you mean an elf but you said man and it's just so off-putting...

They're different species, guys! (This drives me nuts in scifi too. Stop with the humanocentricism! You're not the Galactic Empire!) Replace the word "man" with something else and see how silly it sounds. "Elephant," perhaps; or any other species that isn't the one you're actually talking about.

"Gimli looked up at the taller raccoon and scoffed..."

"Glorfindel greeted the other ant-eater with a smile like a sunrise..."

"The sight of the giraffe walking up the road resolved itself into his cousin Merry..."

See? Yeah, that's how inaccurate it feels to me every time I read the word "man" or "woman" when you're talking about somebody who is not a human. It's not something on the level of squick where I'll reverse out of a fic if I see it, no, but it absolutely is jarring enough to throw-off the rhythm and mood of the story, for me.

(And if I see it in the first line or so before I've gotten invested in the story...yeah. That'll get me out of a fic almost as fast as lack of paragraph-breaking.)

Because I'm such a sucker for world building, I suspect, and the fact that these are all different peoples with different cultures and capabilities and outlooks and understanding and history and everything is such an interesting and important aspect of Middle-earth to me...and lumping all these different folks into one thing like that as though gender is the most important and indeed only notable aspect of their identity, and overrides everything else about them is just weird. It doesn't make sense. And I do not like it.

(Exceptions obviously made for when the character's identity is being deliberately obscured or confused, and they are erroneously thought to be a human and then revealed as something else; that sort of thing is on purpose and thus is fine.)

(Also exceptions for folk like Arwen or Elwing or Elladan etc who straddle the line between species.)

Anyway thank you for coming to this session of Tathrin Whines About Little Things To Avoid Doing Productive Writing Today.

*none of these lines are actual examples taken from real fics; I made them up for this post. Please do not attach call-outs to actual fics or authors in the notes. No need to be mean!

But absolutely fell free to gripe along with me if this silly little world building detail bothers you too. Or laugh at me for being a ridiculous spec-fic nerd. I'm fine with that too!

[legolas-fan-blog]

My girlfriend calling me out (I'm the green)