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Wanna Know What Love Is? (How It Started) by skatesfullofsunshine
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types
28 Apr 2025
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Summary
"Bilbo Baggins was forty-three when he determined he was tired of being deemed a very respectable hobbit. At that age, he was well past his majority by Shire standards and just shy of being labelled an unrepentant bachelor. He had long since resigned himself to the fact that he would likely live out his life mostly alone, after the death of his parents years before. He was quite all right with that fact, regardless of the scandal it might cause.
That was, until he found a letter tucked away in a book of world maps he happened to find in a bookshelf in Bag-End’s library."
OR: Bilbo and Thorin skirt each other for many years, while Bilbo's mother makes friends with the dwarrow who visit the Shire each spring and summer peddling their wares and services to any hobbit willing to give them business. Some years after the death of Belladonna and Bungo Baggins, a letter falls directly at Bilbo's feet, spurring him on to do something reckless he wouldn't have out of respectability's sake, years prior.
What ensues is the beginning of a love of a lifetime; the first of many unexpected journeys Bilbo will take thereafter.
Series
- Part 1 of Wanna Know What Love Is?