Not necessarily. I'm sure there are a number of fans who like fem!Bilbo, even for non-romantic purposes. I've probably seen some fem!Bilbo fanart that I appreciated. I think I'm more interested in genderbending in art than in writing... I dunno. Probably because I think that, because of the gender switch, something about the character will be / is lost? *shrugs*

I've never come across any female Bilbo fan-fiction, but then I actually don't read fanfiction very often (contrary to public opinion). I did, however, come across an article about a year ago about a mother who swapped the pronouns while reading The Hobbit to her children.

I forget the original motivation, it might have been something like one of her children randomly decided that Bilbo should be a girl :P. So she started reading it swapping all Bilbo's pronouns to female (and possibly changing some of the other characters' too; I don't remember). In principle, the idea doesn't appeal to me, but she said that it created some interesting new dynamics in the story (so it kinda resulted in a retelling - a kinda AU I guess). By the end of the article, I wasn't entirely against the idea as an experiment, although generally I like the gender of the characters as Tolkien created them just fine, and I do think gender identity and differentiation are important.

Peter Hollens' cover of "The Last Goodbye":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD1c7795z-M
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Saw it! 🙂 While I love Peter Hollens and think he did a good performance of this, I'm partial to Billy Boyd's version. 🙂

I'm partial to it too. 🙂

I agree. Peter's cover is, of course, beautiful, but I do prefer Billy Boyd's a bit more. 🙂

I'm the same way, Ariel. I just feel Billy Boyd's version has a little bit more dynamics and a certain nostalgia to it!

This doesn't have to do with the current Hobbit but it has to do with an older adaptation, the earliest actually, and I wanted to share it because it's so laughable as it strays soooo far from the source material which makes it much like a spoof, (it even comes with the exaggerated definition of a Mary-Sue (the kind that wear pink sparkly dresses and fall in love with one of the main characters)):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgUWbu-bLc
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O_O I... can't... force myself to watch this any longer. And I'm stopping at a minute and twelve seconds.

It's terrible, right? 😆 Well, at the end Bilbo and the princess rule Dale together then move back to Bag End... (oh yeah, and they kill "Slag" with the Arkenstone...).

O_O *dies*

Can anyone remember where in the movie Bilbo said, "Yes, but bigger, much bigger."? I've been wracking my brain and can't figure it out. 😕

Do you remember which movie or a location or anything else of the context? (Even a shot of someone looking a certain way or something?)

It's at about 1:50 in this video... It's been driving me batty, not knowing where it is!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsZImHB8xU

It's at the beginning of DoS when Bilbo tells the dwarves that there is more than orcs chasing them. Here in this clip at 1:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9fSwCoU3g
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