there is a different green

i rarely draw tolkien fanart but when i do i

overcomplicate the background :I

There’s a passage in The Hobbit where Bilbo, far from his nice hobbit-hole and embroiled in dark and dangerous doings, falls asleep to dream that he is home again, searching though the familiar rooms for “something he could neither find nor remember what it looked like.” I never really had any guesses what that lost thing might be, and was left merely with the unsettling impression and sense of loneliness the dream conveyed, for what is more lost than desire without memory?

I know now what it was that he was looking for, because I have had the same dream. I was walking through the empty rooms of my house, searching in vain for something I could no longer picture, and when I woke up I knew it was my self. The inhabitant of the house who no longer exists, the self so changed that I can’t remember what it looked like and perhaps would not recognize even if I met it in its old haunts.

 It’s not a tragic loss- or, if it is tragic, the tragedy is the old mild tragedy of aging, learning, and growth. Who could dispute that it’s a better thing to be a bold resourceful hobbit than to be a fussy timorous homebody hobbit? The sorrow, perhaps, is in the fact that the heart does not grow at the same pace as the soul, that old loves do not always change because it is a new person doing the loving. A subtle rift is introduced; you cannot go home again.

hey reblog or reply w/ games that feel like home for you, games that immediately make u feel calm and peaceful the second you hear the intro music, and it’s like coming home or a breath of fresh air

Happy birthday, Bilbo Baggins!

Finally finished the set! This took a crazy long time to complete, but I’m happy with the result

eeeh…i finally scanned some of my inktober things!… hobbit locations :3

Just a little fellow in a wide world…

The sketch for this has been gathering some serious digital dust but dang, wanted to finish it! It was wonderful seeing Bilbo change into the adventurer he wanted to be. Thank you for the terrific journey, my old friend!

My senior thesis film is due on Thursday, so after that I’ll get back to working on things I am supposed to (ie commissions) but until then I haven’t had the energy to do anything but work on my film and draw lady!Bilbo designs (and some Thorin stuff to but nothing I am going to show here ahaha).

But I think I pinned down her travel clothes, and then bonus fancy evening wear she picks up in Rivendell because she’s not going to go to dinner smelling like wet horse. 

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow

At Ravenhill Based off of this post

Since I missed to enter the Barduil Big Bang, I took part in the latest Hobbit Big Bang instead. There where only two Barduil storys to choose from, so I picked northerntrash´s “The Wounding and Healing of Man” (Ao3), and honestly I could not have choosen any better. It´s a World War II AU, and I won´t say much about it, other than it´s PERFECT and you should go and read it. When I read the first part of the story, I had a composition in my head, of what I want to draw, with Bard reading and the cross-section of the hillside behind him. Only when I started drawing Bard I realised that, subconsciously, I drew him like he´s injured, and he presses the letters he recieved to his wound, to keep him from bleeding out. I like that very much and I think it works well with the story : 3 Also, I suck at hand-lettering.

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