#the bardlings

[meteors-lotr]

So it's Father's Day in Sweden, and it gave me feels

Because as a single father household, Bard of course got a lot of love and appreciation from his kids, even as they all grew into adults

But it's a human thing, so neither Legolas nor Thranduil had ever heard of it once they joined the family.

But I can just imagine when Bard and Thran were still just courting, tiny Tilda handing Thranduil a little card with squiggly and messy Sindarin letters and a little drawing of the whole family together. "I made it myself! Princess has been teaching me to write in Simdarin, and he asked if he should write it down but I wanted to, so if the spelling and stuff is not very good then I'm sorry. But I got both Bain and Sigrid to sign it, though I did have to trick Sigrid into doing so, and I even drew a family pict- Ada why are you crying?"

[possibly-a-table-or-just-gay]

My recent Hobbit hyperfixation has culminated in me writing a Hobbit/LOTR college au of questionable quality. Whether I continue it remains to be seen, but for now enjoy whatever this is.

Edit: there are lil offshoots to this now! 1 2 3 4 5

Also if you want to ask about anything in this au, my ask box is open!!

[the-red-butterfly]

These are some designs, sketches and tests I did before I begun my piece There's An Unusual Guest In Our House for TRSB. I'll be honest, I had SO much fun with (almost) every aspect of the creation of this piece. But mainly just figuring out Thranduil gown and how it's going to be. For as much as I like how he's dressed in the movies I DO get tired of drawing the same outfits over and over again. And I honestly think his move design is missing some green, but that's a whole 'nother topic.

One thing that I'm just noticing is that the gold neckline in some of these is much lower than in the final piece, and i do like it lower... Hmm, maybe next time.

Thank's again to @scary-grace for choosing and writing for this piece. I just CANNOT wait to read it!!

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Open for Commissions

[zethsmo]

live laugh bong

[razzerturtle]

I have a theory(spoilers for book 5)

I think another reason why Jack and bardle were hanging out so much isn’t just because Jack was bardles apprentice but is because bardle knew working on Grazts tail would weaken him and could probably kill him, so he wanted Jack to have good memories of him, and have another reason to fight for good just in case he died, but he did die later on so… 🥲

But hey that’s just a theory, a book theory >:3

[megalomari]

The Spider King and the Human that keeps "accidentally" getting lost in his forest.

made for the Barduil October Prompts by @bi-widower-dads !!

I'm obsessed with this concept, I made more sillies:

[piyo13sdoodles]

@bi-widower-dads' barduil month day 5: family! have a post-canon royal portait :')

other barduil month entries: [1] [2] [3] [4] - [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

[image id: a line drawing of legolas, bain, thranduil, bard, tilda, and sigrid. all of them are wearing crowns, and bard's kids have their hair grown out.]

[nocompromise-noregrets]

omg. omg omg omg!

I think I might just have finished All I Want Is You. It's been resolutely refusing to cooperate for at least two years, but I thought I'd use the May Writing Challenge (200 words a day, very manageable, and I've actually written a fair bit more than that most days) to work on it and finaly wrestle it into submission...and it seems to have worked, with a week to spare! I haven't quite written the ending I thought I was going to write, but there's room for that in a one-shot this Writers' Month or next or sometime - but it feels completed, and I will absolutely take that. AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Now off to my fabulous beta @lemurious, and then some sort of posting schedule beckons I guess!

[meadowsofmay]

headcanon, where tilda gets lost in the commotion and bard is panicking, trying to find her after the battle of the five armies ends. and all the while not letting go of sigrid and bain, their cold hands in the firm hold of his dirty ones, because he just can't lose them too. he's asking around, searches all the building that can be possible places for a hideout but she's nowhere to be found. his heart is like a lump in his throat, blocks the air from getting into his heaving lungs before dropping in terrifying defeat. he can't find her.

bard?

familiar voice comes from behind him and he spins around, pulling sigrid and bain behind him on reflex before realizing — here stood the elvenking, his figure tall and mighty even without his armor, and tilda, his youngest daughter, rested in his arms.

i think you've lost a princess, thranduil says and tilda follows it with da! exclaimed excitedly. bard feels tears prickling in his eyes the moment her voice reaches his ears.

he runs to them forgetting all the formalities that come with interacting with the elvenking, and grabs tilda off his arms.

thank you, whispers bard, crying into his daughter's hair. thank you, he repeats to thranduil as he looks up.

he imagined himself being a mess, beaten up and tired and emotionally shaken, but. the humane pain that pierced those ice blue eyes the moment bard caught the look of them, struck him. it felt familiar. no king would allow himself to break down like this, not when he has the remnants of his people to gather and care for and heal.

but a father would.

thranduil nods and steps away to leave.

take care, bard the dragonslayer. don't lose 'em again.

[chasejackson-fan]

The Last Kids on Earth Gif! 1ep 3season

[meteors-lotr]

Looks like a cinnamon roll, can kill you: Tilda

Looks like can kill you, is a cinnamon roll: Legolas

Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll: Bain

Looks like can kill you, will fucking kill you: Sigrid

[charactersmashorpass-2]

"He's voiced by Mark Hamil, He's got wizardly vibes, he probably could give comfort"

[ardanirnthedas]

All the options are based from my prior 2 polls asking who people wanted Faramir’s Dad and Mom to be.

I came upon some confusion with myself at first do to my removal of all the one’s that didnt get any votes at all from the list- and so ended up with 7 mom candidates and 10 dads.

It was late enough that when i made the decision that i should take the three lowest voted dad’s and put them with the highest voted dads to even out the equation i forgot to put into consideration that that meant i’d taken six Dads out of the way. And thus decided i should line up the bottom four of each list to fix it. I realized ‘math dosent work for tired brains’ and smushed the remaining 3 together and called it a night. As a Bonus: Merry, Pippin, Fili and Kili get spots on the list. To understand what each of these pairs mean- here are some of the pros of co-parenting.

Elrond and Dain: many children (mayhem and otherwise)

Gandalf and Bolg: totally terribly absurd and polar opposite methods of raising children.

Aragorn and Smaug: compromise is not easy

Bard and Shelob: she has kids, he has kids, they’re equally horrified

Bilbo and Arwen: casual aunt and uncle vibes all the way

Beorn and Dori: mothering is a term not used lightly between them

Sméagol and the Bardlings: they’re all children your honor

Dis and Thranduil and Lobelia: Strong willed, sassy, intense group of differing backgrounds and cultures all set on raising a baby human.

Bonus:

Kili and Fili & Merry and Pippin: they handle things like an Ent on fire.

As a note this is for General co-parenting without romance between a bunch of ill adjusted peoples over a very human child with an overprotective brother.

The winning group will be written and posted of here, anything from snippets, dialogue, world traits to poetic prose. If it comes to be it will be viewable here- so choose wisely for Faramir’s new family depends on it.

[the-red-butterfly]

There's An Unusual Guest In Our House

Elvenking Thranduil & the Bardlings (Tolkien Universe)

TRSB slide #51

Finally posting one of my TRSB (@tolkienrsb) pieces!

The short explanation for this piece is that I REALLY wanted a more fae, otherworldly, not natural, interpretation of the elves, specifically Thranduil in this case, interacting with bards children. I really am always craving that cultural differences between people 😂 And here it is 😌

I am SO happy with how this came out looking, I was SO worried about how it was going to look, I had very specific expectations about the look I wanted this to have. And I'm really happy overall.

Obligatory thanks to everyone who bared with me and my complaining through the process XD but specially to @i-did-not-mean-to for getting me the lovely watercolor pencils I created this with 😭 🥰 I am forever grateful. Extra thanks to @arlenianchronicles for helping me with a few last minute changes to the piece which I didn't have time to do myself (and for indulging me every time I needed an opinion🤭). You are the real mvp frien.

This piece was claimed by @scary-grace who was my last years TRSB writer and I'm just over the moon about that hvdshoasv. I've already gotten a few morsels of their writing and I'm MAD with want for more djaxhckdhszlhovbal. Thank you for choosing my art 🥺

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Open for Commissions

[zethsmo]

just some doodles of the cuties

[razzerturtle]

did anyone else cry when Bardle died,….or is it just me

R.I.P Bardle

you’ll always be the best father figure to Jack