Love your meta! I don't buy all of it, as I tried to watch BOTFA on an airplane and was very unhappy. But with judicious cutting of the swirly gold sickness bit and the ridiculously long battle at the end, it could make a lot of emotional sense to me. And Thorin's bookverse last words to Bilbo are super Tolkien, was glad to see them.
That said, most of the fic I've read simply puts Bilbo in the "female" role, more-or-less languishing, romantic or spunky. It turned me off of that pairing nearly completely.
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Date: 2019-02-05 06:35 am (UTC)That said, most of the fic I've read simply puts Bilbo in the "female" role, more-or-less languishing, romantic or spunky. It turned me off of that pairing nearly completely.