Anon, are you asking me to list you all my fic recs or are you asking me to actually begin obsessing over Bagginshield? Either way, I am delivering because I’m already obsessed and here is a compiled list of favorite fics over on ao3 and favorite fan videos on YouTube. Buckle in boys.
Favorite Bagginshield Fics I’ve Read/Currently Reading (in no particular order):
** are extra, extra favorites, but these are all absolutely incredible fics worth every second of your time.
Summary: Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure?
Summary: Bilbo Baggins isn’t sure about this. Not one bit.
Frodo is definitely too young to enter into an arranged marriage with a dwarven king called Thorin Oakenshield. It’s a good thing that Bilbo is there to chaperone him through their courtship.
After all, there’s no chance that a fussy hobbit bachelor would ever catch the eye of a king.
Summary: Hobbits didn’t have such things as courting rituals – they were uncomplicated folk. They announced their affections with flowers or a cooked meal, a shared pipe or simply a kiss – and then there were meetings with both families and a date set for the wedding.
Dwarves, as he kept discovering, were a completely different kettle of fish.
Summary: Almost all soul bonds are created unintentionally since there is no way of knowing who a person’s soul mate is until they have gone through the bond. Regardless, all newly formed bonds go through several phases. These include but are not limited to: The Initial Encounter, Connection, Separation, Need, Excessive Attachment and Sexual Desire.
Since soul bonds are rare, neither Bilbo nor Thorin realize what happens the moment their eyes meet.
Summary: Bilbo is a (mostly) reformed burglar and a guide with peculiar gifts. When Gandalf arrives with a proposition involving 13 dwarves, a dragon, and a resurrection of those burglary skills, of course he’s going to say no.
Well, maybe not, but he’s definitely not going to get involved with any of this sentinel/guide bonding business.
Okay, at least for sure he’ll keep a lid on his own emotions, he has every kind of practice with that.
Summary: After a life dominated by a strange form of sickness, Thorin is sent to the Shire to seek a cure only Bilbo Baggins can offer.
Burned to A Cinder by ferretbaby - 272k, rating: E, cinderella-esque au, secret identity, cultural differences, mostly T except for ch. 35., 42/42 chapters completed.
Summary: Bilbo, a lonely hobbit of the Shire in the valley outside Erebor, gets a job as a cook in the dwarf kingdom to pass the time and keep himself occupied after his mother’s death. One day he meets a regal dwarf, who he thinks is a thief and trespasser, and throws an apple at his head, never knowing he’s just assaulted the dwarven Prince. Thus begins the antagonistic and somewhat odd courtship of a hobbit and the next King of Erebor.
Convincing a Hobbit by seekerluna - 62k, rating: none, complete, side durincest, BOTFA redo, everybody lives/nobody dies au, dwarf courting.
Summary: “Not so much sent to retrieve as to convince.”
Bilbo never expected to find the dwarves on his front step again and yet here are three asking him to return to Erebor with them when all that awaits him is pain. He took Thorin’s words to heart and he refuses to set foot in the Lonely Mountain again. But what the King wants, he gets.
And thats how Bilbo ended up returning to Erebor, for a… short visit that somehow becomes quite long.
There might also be some magical intervention in the midst of it all.
Summary: Bilbo Baggins has been plagued with dreams for some months, always filled with the same stranger: big hands, strong arms, dark hair. It seems a mystery until he figures that it is a Dwarf, though this only narrows down his search to every Dwarf in Erebor.
When he overhears mention of a special party in the Mountain he wishes briefly that he can attend. But that’s ridiculous. He’s a Hobbit, not a Dwarf.
Turns out that’s not a problem when magic is involved.
Summary: The holidays are fast approaching, and Thorin’s been dreading them, now that it’s just him and his nephews. Harder still given that Fili still barely speaks and hasn’t really since Dis died.
So when Kili drags them into the bookstore to look for children’s literature author Mr. Baggins’ new book, and they find the author himself reading his latest, Thorin isn’t expecting anything beyond maybe making his nephews a little happier.
He certainly isn’t expecting to find something for himself but he may have done just that.
Summary: After his first successful solo mission, Jedi Knight Bilbo Baggins, trained by High Council member and full-time nuisance, Master Gandalf, returns to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. During an excursion to the sparring arena, he meets a group of Dwarven Jedi from Ered Luin, a mountainous planet located in the Outer Rim. Young padawans, Fili and Kili, are full of curiosity at this strange, barefoot Jedi, but Master Thorin, who appears to have the personality of a rancor and mental shields like blast doors, is less than impressed.
Summary: The Shire is taken by Orcs, ravaged and destroyed but Bilbo, who is still very young, managed to escape. He runs, travelling through Middle Earth until he reaches Erebor, where Thorin finds him, cold and starving.
Tupping by ferretbaby - 15k, rating: E, complete, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, abo fic, canon divergence.
Summary: The alphas go into rut after battle as a result of all that adrenaline. Bilbo sits back with the betas and laughs, or tries to.
The One Who Wouldn’t by Salvia_G - 11k, rating: T, complete, soulmate au, soulmate-identifying marks, everyone lives/nobody dies au, marriage contracts.
Summary: If Adventures make you late for supper, Soulmates make for missing supper entirely.
In Hobbit society peace and plenty is viewed as more valuable than passion and riches. Marriages are thought best when they’re settled, warm affairs between friends. That’s why Soulmate marks are thought of as a mark AGAINST a marriage-match…
Dwarves on the other hand, view a soulmate as a blessing from Mahal. If a dwarrow is so lucky as to be born with a mark they spend their life searching for their One. No wealth or jewel is thought of greater value than a soulmate.
So when Thorin and Bilbo meet and see each others marks?…
Summary: Bilba Baggins, popular model for a premier lingerie company, isn’t always entirely convinced that the perks of the job are worth the hassle. Can’t she even go to the shops without being recognized?
But Thorin Oakenshield doesn’t seem to recognize her at all, even with her nearly-naked breasts forever plastered across half of London.
That’s… a very refreshing change.
there are many more in my saved for later, so I supposed I will have to make a part 2
Favorite Bagginshield Fanvids (in no particular order):
these are either mostly angsty/filled with sadness and little fluffy and happy, for some reason, so be warned.
