one of my favorite things about modern AU LOTR fics is that there is this unspoken fandom agreement that all of these fics take place in this mirrorworld where names like fucking Bilbo Baggins are 100% normal and no one bats an eye at it and he definitely wasn’t called something awful like Dildo Saggins when he was a little kid
#lol#yes#same#tho honestly I can't stand it when ppl change the characters' names#I have such a hard time with names irl I can't keep track of who is who when the names in fic change#makes it a giant headache to read#which is sad bc there are several fics that I started reading that were AMAZING#but I had to give them up bc I couldn't follow what was going on due to the name changes#:((((((#I do love on the other hand when authors jump thru interesting hoops to have their ME name be some kind of obscure nickname#like 'bilbo' is sort of derived from 'bill' short for 'william' but then there's some funny story about how the 'bo' got stuck on there#and/or the human!dwarves are just from some non-English speaking country (modern Erebor hell yas) & so get to keep their names#hehe#fanfiction#lotr#the hobbit#hobbit fic#bless#I love this fandom so much