I wrote a short fanfic based on this tumblr post discussing monarchy in The Hobbit! Because while LOTR takes place in a magical fairy tale world where monarchy can be good, it is funny to bring the logic of anti monarchical revolutions to middle earth.
The summary:
“It is simply the nature of all kings to kill, plunder, and hoard wealth— in the same way it is the nature of dragons,” Bilbo said.
Bilbo Baggins has lived all his life in The Shire, where leaders are democratically elected. He has never met a king before. Royal families have always been nothing more than characters in stories from far away.
But after meeting several haughty warlike kings on the Quest for Erebor, Bilbo finally realizes why the Shire has no monarchy — it is a ridiculous horrible form of government and no one with any hobbit-sense would ever agree to it.
Following the Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo explains representational democracy to King Thorin Oakenshield. Overwhelmed by the hobbit’s wisdom, Thorin impulsively converts Erebor into a democratic republic and retires from public life.
But what will happen when Bilbo and Thorin’s actions set off a wave of anti-monarchical democratic revolutions across Middle Earth? Will they ever be allowed to live in peace?
(A book/movie fusion tragicomedy about the struggles of searching for an ending where “they all live happily ever after to the end of their days.”)
sorry but how long do u guys think the ravens practiced their synchronized little number at the fall banquet. i know it's too soon to poke at the nest but it is simply too funny of a concept to ignore.
for some reason my computer terribly auto translates everything and i was on the shoujo cosette website (in japanese) and it really badly translated it and these are the highlights
I feel like Javert would be the type of guy to have a boiling hot cup of coffee that would be so hot that you litteraly cannot touch the mug and he would actually just chug it like a glass of water, destroying all his taste buds and the roof of his mouth in the process. But he would think that's normal because he has no friends