#was a post calling them Bagginshield on a boat

[lavenderprose]

Actually you know what!!

The nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Bagginshield again

[sainamoonshine]

Bagginshield fic I will never write but have thought about a lot so I’ll share the idea here (long post)

So the hobbits have this... thing. 

They call it a curse. 

Most of Middle-Earth would probably disagree, but they honestly find it inconvenient and a little embarassing, so the hobbits don’t really want the rest of Middle-Earth to know.

Basically, when a hobbit dies with regrets, heart filled with woudve-couldve-shouldve, they tend to get a second chance. 

They wake up back in the past, in their younger body, the whole time-travel fix-it shebang

which would be fine, they suppose, except that everybody who was involved in the regret comes back with them

Imagine you live a long life and are at peace with your choices and are ready to go

but that fucker down the road still has his panties in a bunch over some love triange or some shit that happened thirty years ago so you have to COME BACK with him and everyone else who got involved

Imagine if that happened to everybody. all the time. Over every. single. family dispute. 

It would be un-tenable, that’s what it would be. 

So the hobbits, in general, do their best to go peacefully. To live un-eventful lives, and forgive others upon their deathbed, and not rock the boat. 

It doesn’t mean that they can’t have grudges! They do, and they,re good at them! You just have to not REGRET them when you die, and you’re good. 

All that said, it should really be no surprise that one Bilbo Baggins goes to his deathbed in a boat towards the immortal lands and wakes back up at the age of 40-something in Bag End. He had a lot of regrets, after all, and just couldn’t help but wish that maybe... maybe things could have been different. 

Now, at least Bilbo didn’t drag any other hobbits back with him. He would have never heard the end of it.

(Can you imagine? Mad Baggins, breaking the “100 years without anyone coming back” strike that the Shire managed to rack up. Lobelia would have had his head. No, it’s better if the other hobbits don’t know.)

So Bilbo goes to Rivendell in order to inform Gandalf and Elrond that there is a Ring about and that he intends to destroy it. 

Naturally, they don,t feel really great about letting him go alone, so Bilbo ends up travelling with young Ranger Aragorn and Elrond’s own lovely daughter, who was only allowed to go because she allowed herself and also because Bilbo knows for a fact that Sauron is in Mirkwood right now so it’s not like it’s gonna be dangerous (much).

It’s dangerous.

At some point Bilbo ends up getting up close and personnal with a Warg that tries to take off his face, but Arwen and Aragorn save his life and they trudge on to Mordor with impressive wounds that are certainly going to scar

Once in Mordor, the rings tries to get Bilbo to keep it and...

It’s hard. He’s never going to pretend otherwise

But Bilbo Baggins had two regrets that brought him here, and both of them involved letting the Ring near someone he loved. So the minute that this vile thing suggests that Bilbo should use it to save Thorin’s life, or made Frodo’s life easier...

Aragorn and Arwen basically see Bilbo yeet the Ring into the fire as if he’d just seen a spider crawling up his hand and was trying to get it off

(Nonsense, he says later. He’s fought spiders and none of them were ever as repulsive as the Ring)

In any case Bilbo now knows that his business is done, and his biggest regret taken care of. No matter what happens now, he has saved Frodo. He will not come back again, will not be given a second chance. 

So he goes back to Bag Ends, and waits for Gandalf to come and tell him that the time has come to join another adventure. (Even though Sauron is gone, he has made Gandalf promise to stay in Middle Earth long enough to see Thorin’s Quest through. And what was Gandalf to say to that? Bilbo had just gone back through time and saved them all a war. Of course he agreed.)

This time, Bilbo makes sure to have a feast ready for his friends. He missed them all so much, and a tiny, small, ridiculously hobbitish regret of his HAD been the lack of hospitality he had shown the first time around by not having food ready for his dwarven guests

Dwalin is the first to arrive, of course. But the minute Bilbo opens his door, things to off-script

BURGLAR! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?!

Neither of them realize what this variation means, at first. Bilbo answers something about having had a disagreement with a warg, Dwalin comes in, and then...

It’s when Dwalin sees the feast that he finally puts two and two together

He remembers. Bilbo remembers!

So it turns out that all of the thirteen dwarves also came back to the past. Not all at once; they came back slowly, in the order of their death. Dwalin was among the first, then Gloin, then Nori and Dori... The only ones left to ‘wake up’ were Thorin, Kili and Fili, and they’re expecting it any day now

They’ve been quite confused, as nothing like this had ever happened in the history of the dwarves, not even to Durin. But they most certainly figured that it was a dwarf thing. None of them had ever expected Bilbo to be one of them too!

Bilbo is e x t r e m e l y embarassed to explain that it’s actually a hobbit thing. And a... [whispers] shameful one at that too

The dwarves don’t get it.

The others arrive, and all of them exclaim on Bilbo’s scars, but he doesn’t even mind because he is so, so happy to see them again. And be remembered!

Kili and Fili knock on the door, a bit late, and he can see in the way they look at him that they know, too. He can also see by the tears on their faces that it’s recent. He wastes no time in hugging them and welcoming them into his warm home. 

Eventually they all realize that Thorin is most definitely not here yet. Bilbo sends Fili and Kili outside to stand at the end of the street, ostensibly to help Thorin finds the way if he happens to be lost. 

(In actuality, Bilbo suspects that they’ll need a moment with their uncle.)

Outside, Fili and Kili do find Thorin, who’s doing something only slightly more dignified than loitering

He’s only just remembered, and it’s an emotional reunion all around

Until he tries to insist on cancelling the quest

Hold the fuck up they say. We are NOT cancelling the quest! Everybody’s already inside, and they all remember, so if anything we have an advantage we didn’t have the last time!!!

Well yeah but at least we shouldn’t trouble the-

BILBO KNOWS TOO UNCLE

he’s waiting for you

So Thorin is eventually convinced to come inside

Only to loudly exclaim over Bilbo’s warg scars on his face, who finds that this is starting to get a bit old but he’s crying and smiling too much to put up much fuss

After the meal, they both go outside for some quiet and a smoke, and Thorin strokes his cheek tenderly and laments how Bilbo almost died before their second chance. 

(It had taken Bilbo a long time, even after he’d returned from the quest, to put a name on his own feelings. He’d been grieving for a long time when he realized that it was love that he was grieving, and why the widows in town looked at him like one of their own. They’re recognized it inside of him long before he had. It had been a little easier, after that, to breathe through the pain, and to let time do its work. It was always easier to heal what you can name. It had never occured to him to wonder wether Thorin had loved him too.)

(But on that quiet night, with Thorin’s hand on his cheek and his sad gaze boring through his, he knows. and he’s not soon to forget.)

They go on the quest, knowing most of the dangers beforehand which is a plus. 

Thorin doesn’t want to go to Rivendell, to which Bilbo answers “alright then I’ll just go, have a nice meal and a nice bed, get an escort through the mountains, and I’ll meet up with you on the other side I guess, my king”

Thorin is flabbergasted and eventually relents

Dwalin finds it highly amusing.

Bilbo regrets bringing them to Rivendell the moment he steps foot inside the valley though

The elves are very happy to see him, they bow and wave at him, they sing songs about his courage

it’s all very embarassing

When the dwarves ask him why all that, he kind of has to fess up that he tossed a ring into a volcano, nbd

Very, very big deal, immediately contest Gloin and Dwalin, who remember the war of the Ring the best

So Bilbo ends up telling them the entire story, in bits and pieces

His description of the thrall the Ring once had on him makes everyone in the room go very, very quiet

Afterwards Thorin finds him alone and silent, gazing upon the gardens with fingers fidgeting with the pocket of his sweater-vest, and he just silently hugs him

No words needed

Then they cross the mountains and avoid the goblins and the wargs. They make good time, even visit Beorn again

But Mirkwood was always going to be a problem.

Gandalf decides to fuck off to visit Radagast, who has been trying to heal the forest, leaving them alone despite Bilbo telling that this is a very, very bad idea

(he secretly thinks that Gandalf just doesn’t want to deal with Thranduil, the ass)

The scene goes a lot like the one in the book, with the enchanted stream and everything else. They get captured, but not separated this time

Thranduil is an ass to Thorin, who honestly does try to not be an ass back but completely fails

So Bilbo just pushes his way to the front of the group and starts to sass try and do some emergency diplomacy

Hey Thranduil you know who I am? I defeated the shadow that turned your forest into a pile of shit. Yeah, you owe me one, give me my stuff back and let me and my pals through 

Thranduil does know about the Ring-Bearer, and so he agrees to let Bilbo through the forest with anything that he can carry upon his back

(yeah you know it you know what’s coming you all saw that movie)

So Bilbo goes oh yeah? I got your word for that?

and then just picks up Thorin and tries to leave the hall with him on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes

(Bilbo feels like he’s going to die after three steps but the look on Thranduil’s face is priceless and he has already won those negociations)

So Thandruil calls him back and agrees for the negociations to go to recess and let’s talk again when we’ve all cooled down a little

so they are served a nice meal by elves that are trying not to burst out laughing, and Bilbo glares his dwarves into not being too rude and fucking up what he’s trying to do here, particularly you, Thorin

Anyway then he talks to Thranduil again one on one and after assuring him that they have a plan for the dragon, and that he will get his white gems, they are let go

The company doesn’t wait until their elven escort is out of earshot before bursting out laughing about what just happened 

Kili and Fili inform Thorin that they’re voting for Bilbo to be their new King. Bilbo 2020

Thorin replies that perhaps Bilbo can have a job as their official diplomat if he wants it and as his consort

Bilbo tells them all that he sold his house in the Shire so he sure as HECk hopes that someone gives him employment in the mountain when they,re done

Thorin is very pleased to learn about this

They get to LakeTown, where they waste no time getting The Plan (tm) into motion

Basically Aragorn has pledged his rangers to come help them (Bilbo has so many people pledging their help to him after he destroyed the ring and he’s a little embarassed about it to be honest but not above using it to keep his dwarves safe), so all they need to do is convince Bard to go set up in the ruins of the old city with a big-ass bow and they’ll divert the dragon his way, and the rangers are there to have his back should orcs come uninvited to the party with an army.

(Bard does not like the idea of orcs showing up but Bilbo breezes quickly past that part and doesn’t give him time to ask questions)

Anyway so Bilbo goes into the mountain, wakes up the dragon, says incriminating stuff about coming here with friends through the ruins, and off is Smaug, trying to roast an old empty town with one (1) skilled archer in it

Smaug dies RIP smaug

The dwarves waste no time bringing in the people of Laketown inside the mountain and calling for allies, knowing the orcs are coming soon. Thorin doesn’t even take a look at the gold. Everyone else keeps him distracted anyway so it’s not like he even has the time to think about it

He does ask Nori to go and see if he couldn’t find the mithril shirt again though, and he does gift it to Bilbo again

This time, he tries to actually take the time to explain what it means for a dwarf to make a gift this precious to someone even more precious, but Bilbo lets him stutter his way through half a sentence before he tells him that he knows. He knows and he feels the same way.

Which is great and all but they do have a battle to get through.

The elves show up at the door, and Thranduil barely has time to open his mouth before Bilbo’s like Hi and Thanks for showing up for this siege and If you could just bring your archers over here on top of the wall that would be great thanks

Some elves from other parts of middle-earth show up, too, including Lorien which everyone finds weird except for Bilbo who had found the lady of Lorien quite lovely, the one time he’d seen her on his way to Mordor with Arwen and Aragorn

(She had given him a cloak that had turned out to be quite useful in hiding from Smaug’s gaze, even though it was no Ring)

anyway they have a lot of allies and support and the orcs and goblins are few, since Dol Guldur stands empty and all

so the battle goes very well, with few losses on their side

So everybody lives

And then Thorin and Bilbo go on and get married the end

[vilchenwrites]

✨ 30 questions ✨

Thank you @mandolinearts for tagging me! I don’t think I’ve done one of these before, so here goes

1. name or nickname: viluš

2. gender: yellow

3. star sign: aries ♈️

4. height: 165cm, but friends say i have short person energy.

5. time: real? not real? further investigation needed.

6. borth: 26th of March 🌸

7. favorite bands: uhhhh i don’t know. i mostly listen to music by finding a song i vibe with and letting spotify find others for me. i like the paper kites and of monsters and men a lot. others as well.

8. favorite solo artist(s): i like hozier and ludwig goransson and anything lin-manuel miranda is involved in.

9. song stuck in your head: it’s marching season, so dixieland strut tends to go on repeat this time of the year. it’s,,, fun ✨

10. last movie: me and kathe watched the first hour of the return of the king last night, but my laptop kept acting up :(( the last full movie i saw was probably avengers with my brother.

11. last show: i’m atm working my way through six shows, but i think the most recent one was tangled (i desperately want to write a bagginshield au someday 👀)

12. when did i create this blog: man, idk. maybe early 2020?

13. what do i post: my writing, bagginshield, aesthetic photos i like, yuri on ice. this blog is very relaxed compared to my main. i do whatever i want, i guess.

14. last thing i googled: the lyrics to maroon 5’s memories bc i see bagginshield potential in everything these days 💔

15. other blogs: main is @vilchen, but it’s mostly for yoi reblogs. i haven’t been very active on there for a while bc social media spoons are hard to come by these days 🌻

16. do i gets asks: no. i’d like to be more active and social and meet more lovely people, but im shy. someday though,,, 🥺

17. why i chose my url: vilchen is a nickname one of my old friends used to call me by, and it sort of stuck. this was supposed to be ✨writing focused✨ but i enjoy myself more by just. doing whatever i like.

18. following: 170, but im waiting until I’ve finished watching lotr to follow all the lotr blogs *rubs evil little hands together*

19. followers: shjshsjsj. up until recently, maybe 9? after posting some bagginshield stuff, 19. i’d have to be way more active to get more. maybe i will, once the spoons return.

20. average hours of sleep: 8-9 maybe. less than 8 and i won’t function properly.

21. lucky number: 4, 8, 32

22. instruments: well, i play flute in a couple of concert bands, and i’m also decent at playing the piccolo flute. i find it hilarious to mess around on my recorder flute and could (maybe?) be passible on it as well. i’m slowly learning piano.

23. what im wearing: ✨pajama pants, big hoodie, socks with holes in them✨

24. dream job: food critic. getting paid for eating at fancy places??? yes please.

25. dream trip: exploring middle europe by train or boat. i wanna walk through old cities and see handmade crafts and foods and cultures in local markets.

26. fave food: i haven’t eaten quesadillas yet but i think that’s gonna be it.

27. nationality: norwegian 🇳🇴

28. fav song: i have songs that make me feel and songs that don’t and it’s hard to pick favorites beyond that. featherstone by the paper kites, like real people do by hozier, hjerteknuser by kaizers orchestra and hello my old heart by the oh hellos make me feel a lot.

30. top 3 fictional universes i wanna live in: mcu, camp half-blood, middle earth

I’ll tag... @caramel-draws, @azraelyz and @ariren42

only if u want to, of course 💕🌻