Tag: bagginshield

notobadthings:

I just rewatched the Hobbit and I mean

I kinda lowkey shipped some pairings here and there right, like Tauriel/Kili is kinda obvious and I was a bit confused about my feelings on Thranduil and Thorin in that one scene ok

But I never really appreciated the truly, truly obvious thing that Thorin had for Bilbo, like that was some next-level shit, I wouldn’t even call it subtext for all the zooming in on Thorin’s smile when he looked at Bilbo (some valuable screen-time was reserved solely on establishing the special face Thorin made when Bilbo talked to him) and the ridiculous metaphor with the acorn which on top of being a fucking acorn that Bilbo literally took through the whole absurd journey to remind himself of Thorin yes, like that fucking acorn in Bilbo’s hand *pierced through the fucking veil of insanity* as the literal only thing, like nothing else reached Thorin but the fact that Bilbo saw him as a man he wanted to remember right

But what kinda completely escaped my notice the first time was that Bilbo/Thorin was mirrored PERFECTLY to the only other romantic couple in the movie, Tauriel/Kili, with the death and the mourning and the gazing into each others eyes til the end??? Even the sorta consolation through their mentoring figures, who understood the staggering loss they had just endured, and Thranduil directly acknowledging what he had, until this moment, denied seeing, ergo, the love that Tauriel felt for Kili, and then literally the cut to Bilbo and Gandalf like please

And then it’s like as good as stated on-fucking-screen that Thorin was much, much more than a friend or a companion or a king to Bilbo when Bilbo himself literally can not name what Thorin was to him, and then the understanding, smiling face of Balin like come the fuck on

How is this not acknowledged canon? This was the most ridiculous so called gay subtext that I have ever seen I’m so mad