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Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree by the_hexerer
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
10 Sep 2022
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After no contact for almost a decade, Thorin decides (is forced by Balin) to write to the Company’s hobbit and announce his trip to the Blue Mountains, which leads him through the Shire.
Because of reasons, he doesn’t send the letter until the day of his departure from the Lonely Mountain and thus does not know if the Burglar wants to even see him again.
But he has asked for a sign whether he is welcome in Bilbo’s home (and heart): for the hobbit to tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree atop his smial.
And now he dreads what he will find when he finally crests that last hill between Hobbiton and Bag End… -
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Young Bilbo Baggins has a turbulent encounter with an odd creature in the snow a few years after the Fell Winter took his parents. It had been injured and seemed to be starving, and Bilbo, in a fit of Tookish foolishness, takes it in.
As it turns out, the creature is a dwarf, but dirtier than any faunt could ever hope to be, with fingernails like claws, a bearskin over his shoulders and manners like a wild beast. His frustrating guest refuses to bathe, or sleep anywhere but the floor, growls more than he talks, and keeps his many fearsome weapons constantly within reach.
And when the winter storms start to rage outside, Bilbo has no choice but to share his smial with this possibly mad and rather dangerous dwarf.
Just what has he gotten himself into?Series