Bagginshield

Bagginshield is the slash between Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield from the Middle Earth fandom.

Canon
Bilbo first met Thorin upon showing up at Bag End.

After Gandalf healed Thorin at the peak of a mountain, Thorin realised the error of his ways and hugged Bilbo.

Bilbo was especially devastated upon Thorin's death, even weeping at his funeral.

Behind the Scenes
"There wouldn't be a Thorin without a Bilbo."

- Richard Armitage

Fanon
Bagginshield is one of the most popular ships within the Middle Earth fandom, and the most popular to come out of the Hobbit film trilogy. While there was likely shipping from those that read the book, most of the shipping started when the first film came out. As the films put more focus on the relationship between the two, and made it much easier for people to ship the two.

One of the most common types of fics for the paring are "Everybody Lives" fics. As given Thorin's death, many want to allow him to live so that he and Bilbo would be able to get together after the story. Though these fix it's typically also start to lead into the Lord of the Rings, which allows for the relationship to be added during the events of the trilogy.

On AO3, it is the most written ship for both Bilbo and Thorin. It is also the most written ship in the, The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types and TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms tags. There are currently 11990 written works.

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