Thorin: No sweetheart, sorry. I’m still waiting for someone or rather you to tell me that we are actually madly in love and married so I can fall in love with you again.
Bilbo: We are not even courting!! You banished me…
Thorin: Well what an idiot I was then. Anyways, can I court you? I wanna court you before someone else tries.
Bilbo: If only you were this cute when we first met…
Thorin: Well this is my first time meeting you, still…
‘this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story’
— thorin oakenshield and on being doomed by the narrative + the parallels between the sons of durin
anne carson // botfa (2014) // @/ojibwa // anne carson //auj (2012) // battle of the five armies (2014) // script from auj (2012), conversation between elrond & gandalf extended scene // saturn devours his children, goya (1820) // ivan the terrible and his son, repin (1581) // excerpt from an interview by richard armitage on thorin, screencaptured from @/sherlockholmeson // windowsill by arcade fire // a line from thranduil in dos (2013) // strangers by ethel cain // the ouroboros // a devastating text message from a friend (mine) // the orestes by aeschylus // john darnielle // richard silken
