leave your shame at the door

Come on tell me that this isn't perfect for the everybody lives nobody dies reshirement au

Sometimes I think about how the acorn that Bilbo kept from Beorn’s is the acorn of an OAK tree, and how he intended to plant it in his garden at Bag End to tend to as it grew, giving life to his memories of the company, the quest, of Thorin.

Sometimes I think about how Bilbo would have always had an oak tree, to shield his home. That him writing his book was a healthy coping mechanism just as much as it was done out of desperation, to never let his friends, his lost ones, his Thorin, die. Death is not true until all that would remember you have forgotten, and Bilbo did not want to forget.

(oak tree acorns) 

Sometimes I think about Bilbo Baggins sitting in his study, looking out his little window into his garden, watching his oak tree bloom as the years went by. Following the leaves as they rustle in the wind, the whisper of Thorin’s voice carrying on it, “You’ve carried it all this way.”

I think about Bilbo Baggins, knowing that though he never could shared his home in Bag End with Thorin the way he once dreamt of, with his tree, and his book, Thorin had never left him, not really. 

I think about how Bilbo wanted to remember everything, the good, the bad. I think about the growing of this oaken tree in his home, as a metaphor for the burden of lost love, and the blessing to have ever felt it. As unconditional love and forgiveness, as gratitude and honor. Love as carrying a torch.

Yes, Bilbo Baggins carried it all this way. And he will never let it go.

But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, i’ll always be with you.

Richard Armitage really didn't have to go so hard on having Thorin, even gold-sick Thorin, His Royal Assness Under the Mountain, look so utterly in love with Bilbo at all times, but he did that for us and I thank him for it.

i know that it’s over…

Thorin: He looks more like a grocer, than a burglar.

Bilbo: And you look more like an asshole than a king, but here we are.

Okay but, what more proof do you people need that the crew of The Hobbit shipped bagginshield real bad?

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C’mon!

C’MON!

They’re not even hiding it

No one can convince me they didn’t do it on purpose.

Yeah I mean my favorite part was when he miraculously awoke and they shared a tearfully joyous embrace

when your entire existence revolves around your otp, but you still have to try and maintain a normal life:

@letmetellyouaboutmyfeels this is us all day every day 

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY DON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER

“Then Bilbo turned away, and he went by himself, and sat alone wrapped in a blanket, and, whether you believe it or not, he wept until his eyes were red and his voice was hoarse.”

gimme a plot where a very single wedding planner who truly believes in the magic of love meets a lawyer who’s specialized in divorces who thinks marriage and love are non-existent.

how about a bagginshield modern au ??? thorin as the wedding planner who believes in true love & bilbo as the lawyer who sees absolutely no point in marriage:

the first wedding thorin planned was probably dís and vili’s.

like. they HAD a planner but the chemistry between her and vili just wasn’t right. like she got total of 0 percent of the vision vili had, and after watching her fiancée being unhappy for way too long, dís fired her. only the wedding was now so close that finding a new wedding planner ?? impossible.

so of course thorin steps in with all his organising skills. and he’s a jewellery maker so he has an eye for the artsy and designy side of wedding planning as well! (also he totes designed and made dís and vili’s rings so that’s why they trust him with their wedding)

the wedding ends up being fabulous. frerin jokingly tells thorin he should do this for a living and thorin laughs. but. when he watches his sister dance with her new wife. both so happy and in love and content. he realizes this really is something he’d like to do for a living. and since he can continue making jewellery on the side (he designs and makes rings as well for most of the couples that hire him) he starts his own wedding planning company.

FAST FORWARD COUPLE OF YEARS.

thorin has helped so many couples get their dream wedding. and he loves it. loves what he does. loves watching people be in love. loves giving them this gift of one perfect day. and he wants it for himself too.

he wants it s o b a d l y.

but he’s painfully single. still waiting for the one. waiting for the perfect man to walk into his life.

enter bilbo baggins. favourite uncle of prim and drogo - a young couple who’s wedding thorin is planning.

bilbo is absolutely perfect. he’s beautiful and witty and everything thorin has ever wanted. thorin is pretty much convinced they’re soulmates five minutes after they first meet. (they’re choosing a dress for prim. she wanted bilbo to come with since drogo isn’t supposed to see her)

only one little problem: bilbo is a bitter BITTER bachelor. he is a lawyer who specialises in divorces. he thinks marriage is pointless and. frankly. quite ridiculous. he’s only putting on a smile through this wedding planning bc he loves prim and drogo both. (but still. “keep the statistics in mind, prim” and “you know a party and a piece of paper don’t mean anything, right? drogo ???”)

he probably mockingly asks thorin about his job at some point. like “HOW can you do this for a living when you just KNOW they’re gonna end up in my office in the end?” and it breaks thorin’s heart a bit.

but it also sets him on a mission: win over bilbo’s heart before prim and drogo’s wedding is over.

featuring ridiculous durins and a lot of dwarves and hobbits we all know and love. by the time of prim and drogo’s first dance the whole wedding party is rooting for thorin and bilbo

bilbo probs catches the bouquet bc prim likes to meddle. and wants her fave uncle to be happy and find true love