wandering_hobbit



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    "Smaug owes allegiance to no one, but if he should side with the Enemy... a dragon could be used to terrible effect,"

     

    -Gandalf the Gray

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    A different first encounter between Bilbo and Smaug changes the course of history, and an unlikely friendship conspires to redraw the map of Middle Earth.

     

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    an excerpt from 'An Unexpected Friend'

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    Smaug looked at the creature he'd caught. What a tiny thing it was! Even smaller than the dwarves, and much lighter of step. Had it not been holding a beacon while rifling through his gold, Smaug would hardly have noticed it.

    But here it was, and the dragon was careful not to crush the tiny thing in his grasp.

    "Here you are," Smaug rumbled, opening his hand.

    Inside it was a creature he had never seen before, but upon closer inspection, one he knew immediately in his heart as kin. The creature carried within it something Smaug hadn't encountered in ages: the touch of the Green Lady.

    A fellow child of Yavanna, after all these years.

    "Hello,"

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    13 Nov 2025

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    Hobbits have the most unusual ability- when they cry, their single tear crystallizes into a colored gem... Bilbo Baggins hasn't felt emotion since the death of his parents decades ago, but being dragged on the quest and thrust into close contact with thirteen dwarves has awakened his emotions with a vengeance. Can he keep a hobbit's most guarded secret from the outsiders he's befriending, and what in the world does he do about the one he may be falling in love with? He really isn't equipped to handle this anymore! Slow build Thorin/Bilbo.

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    08 Nov 2025

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    Bilbo Baggins will be the first to admit that he was probably the worst incubus in hell.

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    Starving incubus Bilbo Baggins is kicked out of hell and forced to travel to Erebor in search of a meal.

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    05 Nov 2025

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    A blocked path, a stray spell, and a hobbit with the most peculiar sort of luck.

    Bilbo knew, leaving the Shire, that hobbits certainly weren't the tallest of folk in the big, wide world. But this is ridiculous.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    "I have come to receive my claim of the treasure of the Kingdom of Erebor, as promised in my contract of employment signed by Thorin, son of Thráin, and Balin, son of Fundin. To get to the point, this jewel is worth a king's ransom. So, I'd like to trade for that, please. The king. Now."

    Bilbo claims his fourteenth share of the treasure -- and it's not the Arkenstone.

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    03 Nov 2025