The Movies Might Portray Kli As A Cheeky Ladies' Man, But I Think We Should Embrace His True Self: An

The movies might portray Kíli as a cheeky ladies' man, but I think we should embrace his true self: an easily flustered dork.

He might manage a little bit of banter and a wink, but as soon as a lady genuinely approaches him? He turns purple, fumbles for his words and radiates enough awkward energy to give psychic damage to everyone in an one mile radius.

Which is kind of a problem, since our dear Kíli would love to court and wed (and have a few little Dwarflings), but unfortunately he nearly faints every time he has to speak to a lady.

In the Shire he sees a lady's ankle for the first time. He nearly spontaneously combusts.

(Fíli (*fanning air at Kíli*): "Brother, keep breathing!"

Kíli: *hot tea kettle noises*)

His wink at the Elf in Rivendell? She winks back and he chokes on his food.

His declaration of love to Tauriel, after she heals him? Only possible, because the lad is still high as a kite.

And the conversation with Tauriel during the imprisonment? Does happen, but he's bright red, sweats miserably and has to start over five times to tell the story about the fire moon.

And Tauriel? Blushes violently, spontaneously forgets the ability to speak and drops his rune stone three times.

(Fíli, watching from his own cell: "By my beard, they are made for each other!")

GROW BETTERRRR!!!

Uh oh looks like i procrastinated and made a new sketchbook spread, welp. Behold the fluffiest uncles with their adorable nephews and tiny Frodo with crazy bed hair.

Bagginshield Week, day 1: Role Reversal/The Shire Falls Instead + Bilbo is the Thain/Is a Royal

I would have liked to colour this, but I'm quite busy on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Thoughts on the AU under the cut!

I mentally overcomplicated this a lot. Like, if Bilbo is to be Thain, then either Isumbras and Belladonna need to swap ages and the Thainship would have to be ambilineal, or a lot of Tooks would have to die. So, the first is what it has to be but the ramifications of that are mind-boggling. Since Belladonna's age has been changed, it's not too much of a mental leap to swap the ages of Dain the first and Borin.

But then you get into the hassle of what a dragon has to do with The Shire and why on earth hobbits would need a dwarf to deal with it.

S O

The dragon is one that's burrowed under ground in The Shire, leaching poision into the earth and causing crops to die (while it's poisionous, it's realatively small, and no hobbits were set ablaze- this is a fun and silly AU, thank you very much). Because of this, the hobbits had to migrate and live in places like Esgaroth and Dale. Bilbo has lofty aspirations of marching and army of hobbits to The Shire with their most potent fertilisers and advanced crop rotation techniques, but Gandalf stops him. This is not a mission that can be handled by brute agricultural force- this is a mission that needs mining. This is a mission that needs a dwarf.

But why do hobbits need a dwarf to dig? Hobbits live in holes! If the dragon is to be dug out, then a hobbit can do just that! No. This is a dragon who is so deep in the earth, they need someone who can dig through stone. And Thorin Oakenshield, unattatched and secretly longing for a pastural life, is just the dwarf to do it!

All that thought for one silly, three panel comic...

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