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    Bilbo and Thorin decide on a walking holiday to celebrate Bilbo's eightieth birthday, but things don't quite go to plan. Adventure ensues.

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    07 Apr 2021

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    Bilbo Baggins had walked this earth a total of eight times in his past. He did remember them all, in some form or another, though he could rarely recall their names or faces, or very much detail about their lives at all. He always remembered their deaths, though. And he always remembered how it was someone – a well-meaning wizard, for instance – that had shown up and enticed or blackmailed him away from his home and family to go off and die for the good of the world.

    Much like what was happening now.

    Or: How the dragon soul of Bilbo Baggins made a deal with Manwë and can't seem to escape the consequences, and Thorin Oakenshield looks far too much like one of Bilbo's dead husbands.

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    29 Mar 2021

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    Thorin receives a recommendation for a service that promises to relieve her stress. With every soft, sweet-smelling touch, she learns just what she's been missing in her life.

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    27 Mar 2017

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    Bilbo Baggins might be in over his head. He’s purchased an old stone house atop a hill overlooking a city he doesn’t know, and plans to live quietly, largely ignoring the rest of the world. But it’s early April, the rainy season, and the roof leaks, and there's something strange about Bywater House that he can't quite figure out.

    Thorin Oakenshield is in his fourth month of trying to reconcile his own grief with his failures at anything remotely resembling a competent single parent, living out of a shoebox flat with Fíli (seven, sullen, and stubborn as hell) and Kíli (five, resilient but cracking), working crap jobs and hating everything including himself.

    Under the cover of rainy afternoons and sleepless nights, roof repairs and building restoration, Bilbo and Thorin try to figure out how one navigates isolation, and how one breaks out of it. Every step they manage to take forward finds them dragged back again; every question asked has too many answers, or too few. This is a story about living in a world where everyone is on their own, always, and how things go on.

    [for ewebean & noneedforsuspicion, and the 2014 Hobbit Big Bang]

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    28 Aug 2016

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    Wandering near the Old Forest on one of his walking holidays, Bilbo comes across a strange creature in need of help.

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    11 Nov 2015