Tag: the hobbit

tolkien-feels:

tolkien-feels:

tolkien-feels:

I feel like Bilbo would teach the elves of Rivendell the concept of a mathom with the express purpose of oh so politely asking them over dinner how were the Silmarils not a mathom

Random Feanorian elf inherited by Elrond: That’s not… No.

Bilbo: Oh so they were useful?

Elf: Well. No, not exactly

Bilbo: But the owners didn’t want to throw them away.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: And they were in possession of several people over the course of years.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: That’s a mathom.

Elf: No! We loved them because were very pretty!!! And one of a kind!!! Crafted by hands more skilled than any of ours!!!

Bilbo: Yes, like my great aunt’s set of painted dishcloths

Elf, in tears: The Silmarils were not like your great aunt’s set of painted dishcloths

Bilbo: How’s The Great Mathom War as a title for a poem about the First Age?

By the way, it’s important to me that Elrond supports Bilbo’s claim and finds it quite insightful actually

secretmellowblog:

I’ve been thinking about the “unreliable narrator” aspect of the Hobbit recently and CONSIDER:

A comic adaptation of the Hobbit where each character “writes” in a different art style. 

Bilbo is the narrator, so most of the story is told in his art style.

But when like….. the dwarves describe Smaug’s attack on Erebor to Bilbo… the history of Erebor is drawn in the dwarves’ art style, to reflect that we’re seeing these events from the dwarves’ point of view.

When the elves descibe Smaug’s attack on Erebor– and describe it differently from the dwarves– the history of Erebor is drawn in the elves’ art style, to reflect that we’re now seeing the events from the elves’ point of view. And so on, and so on.

……I have no idea how coherent this is but I’ve been obsessed with this idea for a long time.

So anyway here are a bunch of my notes about this + brainstorming ideas for what each character/group’s art style would look like!

EDIT: Here’s Chapter 1!

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