Canon is the Hobbit, currently homeless, considering the_library

[luckwearer]

Well yes, the journal is quite nice, and I do appreciate the icons. But I would much prefer to just stay at home. This library place sounds lovely of course, but you know I would miss Bag End horribly so I think it would be better for everyone if I just stayed here, yes?

Besides, with so many Big Folk around... well it would just be so noisy, all of them tramping about. I'd never get any peace and quiet you know. And that's what I want. Peace and quiet. None of those adventures, I'm sure one of the other... lovely people you have up here would enjoy themselves quite a bit more. So just send one of them.

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[tidal_trickster]

Pssh. Quiet is boring. It's funny when people get angry at you. They never catch me.

[luckwearer]

I beg your pardon, quiet is quite nice. There's nothing as relaxing as having a pipe on a quiet morning.

And really, why would you want to make someone chase you?

[tidal_trickster]

Because watching those smelly pirates stumble over their own feet even trying to get up is hilarious!

[luckwearer]

Goodness gracious me, pirates? That sounds horrible!

[tidal_trickster]

[Fizz giggles.]

It is! A whole town full of them! They're clumsy and smelly and they can't even walk in a straight line!

[thewanderer]

Adventure is good for the soul, lad.

[luckwearer]

Perhaps, perhaps. But it's really quite tiring and completely disrupts your schedule.

[thewanderer]

You get used to both, to tell the truth.

[luckwearer]

Yes, well I quite prefer not to, thank you very much.

[Rhyyyys stop talking about those things, adventure is very upseting]

[thewanderer]

Ah, but you may have to.

[luckwearer]

And I beg your pardon, but I am most certainly not a "lad."

[Huffs and mutters]

Big Folk always think that anyone smaller than they are is a child...

[thewanderer]

How old are you? Fifty?

[luckwearer]

Yes, and I do think that does not qualify me as a lad anymore.

[myblimpisbigger]

[Whoops have the biggest Big Folk to have ever been big and a folk]

Frankly, I think you're being difficult. A library is far preferable to some of the places you could be sent.

[luckwearer]

Yes, so everyone in this... headspace has been telling me. But really, what is so wrong with wanting to stay home? I like Bag End.

[myblimpisbigger]

I wouldn't particularly know. My own home is mobile and thus I can stay home and travel at my leisure. Perhaps you should invest in an airship.

[luckwearer]

Really? Well, I suppose you just have the best of both worlds, don't you?

Oh, I'm sorry where are my manners. Bilbo Baggins, pleasure to meet you.

[onabirdswing]

A library isn't so bad. There are worse places your mun could put you.

[luckwearer]

[Bilbo smiles, he rather likes children. Especially when they're quiet and polite]

Yes, I am sure there are. But well, it would be nice if she let me stay home, don't you agree?

[onabirdswing]

[Rue offers a shy smile in return; she's never seen a grown man as small as he is before.]

Yeah, I suppose. [She can sympathize; oh boy, can she sympathize.] I wanted to stay home, too. But I couldn't.

[luckwearer]

I love my home, though it seems as if everyone is determined that I should leave it.

[He sighs, but then smiles, he can't really throw some kind of fit in front of a kid after all] I'm Bilbo, what's your name child?

[iorhael]

[oh my goodness how did I miss this]

I think a library is one of the few places were peace and quiet are universal. Even with the Big Folk.

/scream omg a Frodo!

[luckwearer]

Ideally yes, it would be. Goodness knows it's likely large enough that I wouldn't even have to deal with any of the Big Folk if I didn't want to.

But she, the young lady I mean, seems to think it would do me some good to get out of Bag End and "live a little" which sounds quite ominous to my mind. I can live just fine in my own home, and I would thank her to remember that.

HI THERE

[iorhael]

Big Folk aren't all bad once you give them a chance. Well, most of them aren't.

This young lady must be wise beyond her years. It isn't so ominous, though, if you start small.

[watch out, Uncle, he will start planning how to get you slowly out on your adventure, or perhaps, more sneakily prepared for when Gandalf drops by]

Perhaps go on walks that go a little further every day. Have you been to Oatbarton yet? Or Stock?

HULLO OH GOODNESS SQUEE

[luckwearer]

Perhaps, though I can't say I've ever heard anything good about them.

[Snorts]

No, she is not, she's very disrespectful and keeps planning things behind my back.

[Bilbo doesn't even know about his dear Nephew yet, so he might be rather annoyed to find out about this conspiracy]

Hmph, of course I have, y-- [He sighs, his manners have gone right out the window today] I beg your pardon, I haven't introduced myself yet, my manners are just all over the place today I'm afraid. [Have a handshake, Frodo] Bilbo, Baggins, at your service.