quixotic chaotic

There’s only the song of birds, and the wind blowing in the trees. Insects buzzing. Nothing for him to do, nothing for him to sort out, nothing-

“Thorin, you’re going to get a sunburn.”

Bilbo’s fingers smooth over his cheek and Thorin opens his eyes and blinks a few times at the sudden light.

With the sun behind him, it’s hard to see his husband’s face as Bilbo leans over him; kneeling beside him, but then again,Thorin doesn’t need to see him. He knows Bilbo’s face down to the smallest wrinkle at the corner of his eyes, and he knows what expression would be greeting him. 

Raising one hand, he reaches to cup the back of Bilbo’s neck, tugging him down, slowly, until their lips brush. 

Sometimes he still does not quite believe that he is allowed to do this, that this is wanted. 

That he is wanted.

“Am I supposed to stay like this and provide shade to you then?” Bilbo murmurs, brushing a stray strand of hair away from Thorin’s forehead before pressing a kiss to his nose. “Because you are getting a sunburn. I can see you turning pink.” 

“I have not been here for very long,” Thorin points out, blinking again as the shadow cast by Bilbo allows him to see more clearly.

Bilbo smiles, and that’s really all Thorin wishes to see.

Quick paint based off the song - Hold My Hand by The Fray

the song works so well for Thorin angst and insecurity.

"no right to ask this of any of you"

I’m laughing like

it’s okay it’s not like he’s the rightful king or anything

it’s not like they all signed contracts to help him reclaim Erebor under which defending it from orcs pretty clearly falls

it’s not like Thorin deeply and sincerely believes he’s a totally worthless waste of space for whom no one actually cares or feels any amount loyalty I mean

I’m just

laughing

so hard

sometimes when Bilbo and Thorin get into a fight Bilbo notices how panicked and insecure Thorin gets so he takes a break from shouting to assure his husband he loves him very much before going back to telling him what a pig-headed idiot he is

I love the headcanon that among dwarves Bombur is considered the hot one.

I also want Bombur to be considered especially attractive not just among dwarves, but orcs as well, especially after the battle on the river. I want the surviving awestruck (and ax-struck) orcs to tell tales of the redheaded battle-beauty who cleaved and smashed his way into (literally) the hearts of all those who gazed upon him.

FJALSKFJALSKJFLAKJSFLKASL BEST HEADCANON

I AM SO DOWN WITH THIS “DIFFERENCES IN STANDARDS OF BEAUTY” THING IN THE HOBBIT FANDOM I WANNA READ 12,000 FANFICS ABOUT WHAT ORCS CONSIDER BEAUTIFUL IN A MATE.

OMFG YES EVERY POSSIBLE ORC ROMANCE FANFIC EVERRRRRRRRRRR

I’m also a big fan of “OMGhotDwarf!Kili” getting the pitying “Oh, don’t worry about your face being all naked, lad, you’ve got a…um…great personality.” Underbreath: “Good thing he’s a prince, poor spindly boy.”

I’m not really in this fandom, but I love these headcanons.

#interspecies relationship where they’re both SUPER HOT in their species but for the other its like???? why are you dping this to yourself???? like assholes can say#and they both go first you dont know shit and second they are superhot and third you shut up or ill axe ur face off/fllunk an arrow in both ur eye#(yeah i#i was#i was going for legolas/gimli…. okay, but forget about legolas/gimli for a bit … what about this reversed? Interspecies relationship where both are ugly by their standards but super hot in their partners culture .. so your mate are like ‘I know why you’re with that super hottie, but what is s/he doing with YOU?’

See, this is why I love the Hobbit/LOTR fandom. All the different beauty standards and headcanons concerning them are just awesome. 

I need more fanfics concerning the different beauty standards. 

Also, I like to think Dori and Bombur are the ones considered hot among dwarves. While to Kili everyone else is like “Oh, don’t worry, I’m sure your beard will grow too one day, you poor lad. You are just a late bloomer.” 

#IT’S BASICALLY CANON THOUGH THAT KILI IS CONSIDERED THE RUNT CAUSE HE’S GOT NO BEARD#LIKE THAT’S AN EASY WAY TO BE OSTRACIZED#IF HE WASN’T ROYALTY THEY’D PROBABLY SAY THINGS LIKE ‘YOU’RE NOT EVEN AS HAIRY AS MY WIFE’#FOR DWARVES THE BIGGER BEARD THE BIGGER SEX APPEAL#WE THINK THORIN FILI AND KILI ARE THE HOT ONES BUT LIKE BY DWARF STANDARDS THEY’RE PROBS THOUGHT OF AS WEIRD-LOOKING#WITH THEIR SMOOTH SKIN AND TRIM FACIAL HAIR AND SMALLISH NOSES#HOW GROSS

OH MAN HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS HEADCANON LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

No but seriously, I personally subscribe to Richard’s headcanon that Thorin’s short beard is sort of a pledge he made to commemorate the burned beards of the dwarves who fled the Smaug’s wrath. BUT I also believe, essentially, that Thorin was doing almost a ritual scarring of himself, like “I will not care about my appearance or beauty or sex appeal until the mountain is reclaimed” so all the other dwarves have MAD respect for Thorin’s short beard but everyone agrees it makes him look very spindly and scrawny and unattractive, unlike Thror who was a fuckin’ picture of dwarven beauty with that huge beard. (“I am not my grandfather” indeed!). 

Meanwhile poor Kili is actually just considered scrawny and young looking, the equivalent of an acne-faced teenager, and does not understand why he gets all the speculative looks when they visit the villages of Men. 

In his weaker moments, when Thorin dares dream about the future and imagine that maybe, just maybe they’ll reclaim the mountain, Thorin gets super depressed about winning Bilbo’s affections because he’s literally surrounded by pictures of dwarven beauty like Dori and Bombur, and he already knows hobbits prefer rounder physiques. Hence the crazy high value of the mithril shirt and his suspicion of the other dwarves, he’s trying to point out to Bilbo how untrustworthy they are, stealing from his and Bilbo’s hoard, even as he offers him a kingly gift. 

OH OH OH and if red hair is really prized amongst dwarves - another reason Bombur is considered a hottie (along with Gloin and Gimli, heh) - whereas for elves, red hair is only found amongst Silvan elves, higher castes of elves all have blonde or black hair, so for Tauriel to be ginger really marks her as low class among elves, but in Kili’s eyes, she’s this amazing beautiful fire-haired lady who walks among the stars. (Legolas and Gimli, in contrast, are exactly that type of couple who are beautiful to their own people but not to their partner’s culture, lol)

I also love the idea that dwarves take great pride in doing their hair & that it directly relates to their perceived beauty/sex appeal in dwarven society, from what was said about Dori when the dwarves were first introduced for the movies & how he’s considered a bit of a dandy because of his intricate braids & the big giant silver case on his beard. Like braids can have symbolic meaning, marriage, battle prowess, family or guild allegiances, etc, but also just pure vanity, the more extravagant the sexier. So Thorin’s short beard can be a sacrifice to the memory of the dwarves burned by Smaug & the almost ritual scarring like mentioned above, but the fact that he & Kíli wear fewer braids than basically anyone else, even Fíli, could also be telling: if they’re already considered not-good-looking by dwarven standards, then dressing up (almost the equivalent of putting on makeup or really nice clothes) might fall pretty low on their list of priorities. They’re not handsome, and they know it, and a few extra braids won’t change their delicate, thin, so very un-dwarven features, so why bother trying to get all dressed up when they’re already surrounded by these fine specimens of dwarven beauty?

does anyone else want to talk about the significance of aragorn looking upon the argonath in the fellowship with this sense of wonder and weight and hope.

while thorin standing aside the likeness of his grandfather/erebor’s equivalent of the argonath is filled with this sense of refusal and fear and defiance. 

this moment is so crucial to the differences in their characters and i think it beautifully displays why one rises and one falls.