Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield

• Super Recs
• Recs
  • Para Bellum: (G, 3k) Hobbits always survive; even where trained and experienced soldiers don't. Has no one ever wondered about this? Thorin and the Company learn that it takes more than luck to be small in a big world. OR - Bilbo has unexpected skills and Thorin finds he likes them.
    • I was skeptical about this when I first saw the summary. I’m a fan of my gentle hobbits—but I read it anyway, and boy was I glad I did. Not only is the writing gorgeous but the idea is ingenious and makes SO much sense. …I think I have a new hobbit-life headcanon! There’s not much shippy stuff here, but it’s cute and a good read :)
  • Planting a Hobbit: (G, 13k) Bilbo liked Erebor, he really did. Even if everyone seemed convinced he was going to leave. In which soil causes international incidents, Thorin is over-dramatic, and dwarves are rubbish at keeping secrets. Oh, and they build a garden. Eventually.
    • Oh, this fic is just beautiful. It feels like summer, honestly. Warm and bright and green, everywhere. The writing is vivid and beautiful, and everyone is so wonderfully in character.
  • Call You Home: (G, 12k)In which the Company are entirely too nosy about matters that are supposed to be a secret, and Bilbo learns that being concerned about propriety is overrated when you could be making friends instead.
    • I’ve always been a sucker for True Names—or inner names, as they’re called here—and this fic definitely delivers. It’s sweet, cute, and mildly angsty. (Well, not really, but Bilbo is a bit sad, before he understands what his inner name means.) The writing is lovely and everyone is in character… definitely one I’ll reread some day :)
  • You Got Me: (G, 18k) The Company shows their affection for Bilbo in accordance with dwarvish tradition. Bilbo... has no idea why everyone keeps giving him gifts.
    • When it comes to published books and movies, I’m avidly against miscommunication as any sort of trope. In fanfic… not so much. Especially cultural miscommunications. This is a wonderfully sweet and humorous story focusing on Bilbo’s relationship with the entire company. …and a slightly different end to the tale of the Hobbit.
• To Read
  • to change the course of the future: In an attempt to get the Arkenstone back for Thorin, Bilbo discovers the ring he's been using is the One Ring. Seized by a need to destroy gold, especially gold with the ability to ensnare creature and king alike, he sets out alone for Mordor. Anything to forget about the love that gold cost him. What he doesn't know is that Thorin is no longer under the thrall of gold, and is desperately racing to catch up with him to keep him safe. They may have just started on another adventure, but this one may not end as well as their first quest.
  • Growing Dwarves (And Kingdoms): (T, 302k) Sometimes, Bilbo finds, not everything goes according to plan.
  • Getting It Right: (T, 126k) This time he would not let Thorin fall to madness. This time he would not let them die. This time he knew he could handle it. This time he would not tolerate the wizard's carelessness. This time he would claim what was his. // Bilbo Baggins was definitely not the hobbit Gandalf expected to find.
  • tiny hobbits: (Series, T, 35k) fauntlings, little ones, small Bagginses, poor babies, these are just a few of the many things to call Bilbo Baggins' "nephews." the dwarves, however, call them tiny Hobbits.
  • Sansûkh: (IN, M, 533k) In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
  • Alone is Not a Word Meant For You: (G, 5k) The holidays are fast approaching, and Thorin's been dreading them, now that it's just him and his nephews. Harder still given that Fili still barely speaks and hasn't really since Dis died. // So when Kili drags them into the bookstore to look for children's literature author Mr. Baggins' new book, and they find the author himself reading his latest, Thorin isn't expecting anything beyond maybe making his nephews a little happier. // He certainly isn't expecting to find something for himself but he may have done just that.
  • Yuletide: (T, 2k) Five years after Bilbo arrived at Erebor with four fauntlings looking for asylum, he shares a tender moment with those he calls most dear.
  • Lay Down Your Sweet and Weary Head: (T, 125k) Thorin dies. Thorin wakes up. He is understandably confused by this, especially since he appears to be in the Erebor he knew as a young dwarf, about to be attacked by a dragon.
  • The Road Delivered Us Home: (M, 117) In the years since Bilbo left Erebor, he has lost his respectability, gained a nephew, and gotten on with life at Bag End. // He'd left aside adventure for the comforts and peace of his little Hobbit hole, and for the love of a child who needed him. Though perhaps, adventures can yet find him.
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay: (T, 296k) Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure?
  • The Inevitable Love Story Between Two Oblivious Idiots: (T, 116k) In which everyone sees the budding romance between Thorin and Bilbo, except, of course, for Thorin and Bilbo themselves.
  • The Courting Habits of the Line of Durin: (T, 53k) Hobbits didn’t have such things as courting rituals – they were uncomplicated folk. They announced their affections with flowers or a cooked meal, a shared pipe or simply a kiss – and then there were meetings with both families and a date set for the wedding. // Dwarves, as he kept discovering, were a completely different kettle of fish.
  • The Nine Lives of Bilbo Baggins: (T, 15k) He's not scared, but rather resigned. He doesn't want to die, not when he knows that it will be permanent, but he doesn't regret his actions. He's died many times on this journey; first for his Company, and then for people he could proudly call friends, who then turned into family. // And now Bilbo will die for them again. // For the first time in his life, he will also die for love.
  • A Cultural Misunderstanding: (E, 96k) In which Thorin pushes, and Bilbo doesn't know how to handle emotions and finds himself engaged without realizing it.
  • (Not Quite) Prince Charming: (E, 68k) The problem, Bilbo would later tell Gandalf in aggrieved irritation, was not so much the unannounced visitors, oh no, but the fact that due to the lateness of the hour and sheer merciless fate, it came to be that at the respectable age of forty, Bilbo was being introduced to a real, live king while wearing striped pyjamas and fluffy slippers.
  • Of Seasons: (T, 14k) As far as he could tell, he had been kidnapped, which in itself made this week more than a little unusual. // In which Bilbo steals away the Lord of Death, and Thorin can't quite bring himself to stay angry about it.
  • After the Dust Settles: (T, 25k) Bilbo Baggins did not respond. He had been deeply unconscious for the past seven days. // Thorin Oakenshield tried not to let his heart break.