I Need Thilbo Fic Recs That Recognize The Cultural Differences Between Hobbits And Dwarves. Because Dwarves

I need Thilbo fic recs that recognize the cultural differences between hobbits and dwarves. Because dwarves are loud and affectionate species. They slap each other on the back, they hug, the weird headbutt thing Dwalin and Balin do, they make jokes about their friends. They show their affections loudly. They aren’t afraid to show off their love for someone. Dwarves are a proud race and they show that quite often. But hobbits are a more quiet kind of love. Hand holding, forehead kisses, hand kisses, laying your head in their shoulder, falling asleep while they read to you, bouquets of flowers, picnics in a secluded area with all your favorite foods, baking together, reading together, admiring the stars kind of love. Hobbits are much more reserved than Dwarves. They take pride in their hosting skills and gardens. And I NEED to see Bilbo and Thorïn bumbling around trying to follow each others courting traditions and failing miserably RIGHT NOW.

Since all queer people are, in fact, in a romantic relationship with Moon I…how will this affect our relationship?? Will be become a Polycule??? Will we have to choose??????? Since (i don’t think) it will stay in orbit with the earth for more than two years max, will it just be a fling???? Just like one of those cannon events that are bound to happen like a cannon event?????? How will Moon II affect us???????????

This is genuine question I have, that i technically could google but i don’t feel like it, so I’ll ask the strangers in my phone instead.

Why is it that when I discover a celebrity that everyone else seems to know, I get so…angry? I’ll click on a comment and the people replying to it will be like “Notice me senpai!!!1!” Or whatever and I’m left to simmer in my own thoughts and confusion over who this person is. It’s like “Who are you???” Because all the people are like “I’ve been following you since 1845!! Love your stuff!!!” Or whatever and I feel so angry and almost embarrassed that I don’t know who that person is. I’m sure these a physiological explanation or maybe it’s my intense fear of being left out. Idk.

It’s the one instance I can’t blame something on my parents divorce and I struggle to make jokes about it..bc how do you make jokes about that kind of situation???

i love canceling plans. dear maria count me out

Merry my baby!! I am holding him so gently!! I love him

i cant formulate words rn but i want you to know that ever since you sent me that one reply about merry and his fear of being left behind you’ve enlightened me. opened my eyes to the beautiful truth of complex character design lying just below my nose. he’s like my favorite character now and i think about him and what you said all the time. how could you do this to me (positive). thank you. im sorry if this weird but i needed to you to know that its your fault (in a good way) that im a merry stan now

No don't be sorry at all!! Merry is one of my favorite characters too and I think there's so much more to be said about him (like how the position he is put in with Eowyn can retroactively represent a lot of marginalized men and how often they really don't get treated like Real men or provided the same "male privilege" that men normally would be—though I doubt this was Tolkien's intent, or at least not in the way I'm imagining it)

But I think Merry gets ignored by the fandom a lot because some people don't understand his character and just lump him in with Pippin (whether because they haven't read the books or some other reason). Nothing in the books would've happened if Merry hadn't bothered to look deeper into Frodo's business and was SO adamant about not leaving his side. Not letting him go to Rivendell alone. without HIM. Not Pippin, not Fatry, not even Sam (because, believe it or not, in the books he actually Wasn't very close to Frodo until they started to truly get to know eachother in Rivendell, away from the constraints of their class barrier in the Shire). MERRY didn't want to be left behind. I mean this aspect of character and his development comes to its crux when everyone marches to the Black Gate and he resigns to accept the role he has played and waits in the Houses of Healing with Eowyn and Faramir, but in the movies that literally just DOESN'T HAPPEN. He's just suddenly Better and goes with Pippin anyway (another way the movies reduced his character).

I didn't think that my LOTR character opinions impacted anyone so much but I'm very glad they have :) reading this genuinely made me so happy. thank you!!

And pippin is like 15 for hobbits too, so another hobbit would also be like “where tf are your parents kid” too😭

the fact that pippin can pass as a human child is so funny to me. imagine you’re in a battle and you just see this fucking toddler running around with a knife. you’re a big scary troll and you’re like “im not gonna fight this tiny baby, where are his parents?” and then the baby kills you and fortnite dances on your body