elfmaidens:

elfmaidens:

this is absolutely self-projection but bilbo is a bad at math gay

bilbo: right. so we’ve travelled uh, 200 miles, and the lonely mountain is uh, 1000 miles away, so we have uh, 1800 to go

thorin: what the fuck

thorin, attempting to explain to bilbo that he doesn’t actually need a map to know the exact distance of the lonely mountain: look, we know the height of the lonely mountain. we also known the angle from where we’re standing. therefore, using tangent, we can calculate the distance to the mountain which is—  

bilbo: please go back to your long-winded speeches im begging you