Why did Bilbo Baggins never have a partner or get married?

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Anyone remember?

Should I start a new thread/poll:

Who would kick DH out of bed for Kili even though he was 5ft2

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5ft 2 is just right

Particularly liked this but am disturbed as fuck:

Just to disturb you further, screen grab of the current most recently posted in Archive of Our Own "Hobbit: All media types." You ain't seen nothing yet . (User names inked out to protect the innocent ).

Where is the "bwa ha ha" emoji?

(Sam and Frodo I always read as platonic, but Legolas and Gimli in the books? I mean, there's comradely affection, then there's defying the gods and building a boat to take your beloved to the forbidden realm with you... I know Tolkien wouldn't have overtly written it that way given his religious beliefs, but man, that's some Freudian subtext going on there.)

@homemadecommunistrussia

5ft 2 is just right

Yeah, I mean, once they're lying down...

How the hell is a dwarf 5'2"?
(I'm 5'1". )

It's still taller than me...

Hairy feet innit?

Incidentally, always fancied Ian Holm, despite being 40+ years his junior. RIP.

PS never, ever fancied Martin Freeman.......

Wasn't he considered a bit Tookish? The other hobbits were wary of his strange ways.

The other hobbits thought he was a bit odd didn’t they? It’s interesting to wonder if Tolkien didn’t unconsciously write him as a gay character. There certainly was a type of oxbridge professor who was probably gay, unmarried, a little odd and out of step with modern (for the time) society. Ghost story writer MR James was one of those. Tolkien could well have based bilbo, especially the older Bilbo, loosely on this type of man. He would certainly have known a few.

He was a free spirit with a thirst for adventure.

He preferred food to sex

I always imagined that the other hobbies thought him odd. I also thought he was meant to be with Thorin but couldn't trust him around the ring so accepted that he would just love him from afar.

Kiwi is the one who questions Taurriel about searching his trousers as he 'Could have anything hidden there' She just looks at and replies 'or nothing' and walks away

I know and he had big foot too..

Kili

Why did Bilbo Baggins never have a partner or get married?

Because he’s smart.

@homemadecommunistrussia

5ft 2 is just right

If it's Kili?

@nosswith - did they live north of London & have an orchard?

This all wonderful input thank you ladies.

To summarise.

The ring
Bum sex
Sam gay pure love
Sam but no bumming
Fan porn
Yeah
We all agree on Kili

We all agree on Kili

Apart from how to spell his name.

Both Bilbo and Frodo were on their way to becoming Gollum, weren't they? I thought that was the 'in text' answer, and example of what would happen. Anyone who owns the ring becomes obsessed with it. It becomes their precious and they have no interest in any other relationship.

I think it was because he was a bit odd, according to other hobbits anyway. He was different and I think probably based on a bookish, gay professor type who couldn't really do much about it at the time so went off on fabulous adventures instead. Retired to live with the elves because they were woke and right on and tolerated homosexuality.

But The Hobbit films are so disappointing - why did they have to mess with a perfectly good book and stretch it into three films (and I've yet to see the last one because I just about died of boredom watching the first two). I too watched the entire LOTR during lockdown and it's all deep meaningful stares at one another or into the distance. I am so glad I read the books before the films and have experiences the utter joy of being lost in them with my imagination running riot. I was about 18 when I read them and finished them in a fortnight of reading whenever I could - train to work, tea breaks, into the wee small hours in bed. I remember with The Return of the King, being about half way through and thinking 'oh great, I've still got all these pages left to read' when it finished and the rest was appendices. Boy did I feel let down.

I think it's because he was too focused on traveling and adventures to settle down.
I adore The Hobbit and LOTR, still have my childhood battered books