WHAT IF?
Bilbo Baggochips setting off on an adventure! He is mildly optimistic about his chances.
The pic that started this. An AU where Thorin is a personal trainer and Bilbo is… a potato!
Bilbotater getting all sneaky in a dragon hoard!
Hobbits playing field hockey! It's a Potato/HockeyAU crossover!
What if hobbits were potato people? I was doodling this pic of Thorin and… well. What about a modern AU where Thorin is a personal trainer and Bilbo is a potato person? So I drew Bilbo as a potato person. And laughed and laughed and laughed.
Then I was thinking, no wait, this could work.
Yavanna is wise and caring and powerful but… she’s a little hard of hearing! When she caught wind that the race of Man would, eventually, rule Middle Earth she heard the race of Yam and so… she made hobbits out of yams.
These quiet, gentle folk live underground (omg just like tubers!) for the most part. Sometimes they build above ground houses with straw insulation (omg! you can grow tubers buried in straw above ground!). They’re excellent gardeners and are very good at hiding (omg! Just like… no wait, I got nothing here). They also have hairy little foot-poofs. JUST LIKE POTA– okay, i’ll stop.
FOOT-POOFS!
I could see other PotatoAU story-lines such as:
- Thorin is an architect and Bilbo is a potato person
- Thorin survives the Battle of Five Armies and Bilbo is a potato person
- Thorin marries Bilbo and Bilbo becomes the royal potato consort
- Bofur is a renowned stone whisperer and Bilbo is a potato person
- Hobbits are potato people and dwarves are cabbage people and elves are asparagus people and humans are ears of corn. I dunno. I like the imagery of the Riders of Rohan being these ears of corn with flowing silky cornsilk ponytails.
IT WORKS IN SO MANY SITUATIONS!
From my PotatoAu notes, written late one night:
Bilbo: *stealing a bit of treasure*
Smaug: o_o Why is a potato stealing my treasure?
Why is a potato stealing my treasure? XD This is the most fun I’ve had drawing in a long time!
These were the first things I doodled on my new pad of Paris Bleedproof paper! Omg. If you meatspace ink your work you need to try this paper! When you ink the pens gliiiiiide across the paper. It’s so lovely! 0.3mm Pentel mechanical pencil with HB lead. Inked with 0.3mm and 0.1mm Staedtler pigment liners. Coloured in Photoshop These were all drawn on the same sheet of paper.