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  1. My Heartbeat Throes by

    Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types  

    27 May 2024

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    “Master Baggins…” said Dori slowly. “You do remember receiving this gift, yes?”

    It is a gift. She shut her eyes tight. It was all too clear—the pallid sheen of his face, the skin around his eyes bruised with worry and lack of sleep, the white press of his knuckles. He had been a ghost of himself. A token of my regard. The flash of teeth in the dark, half-snarled. I have been blind… but now I see. 

    “Perhaps I do not care to remember,” Bell whispered, turning her head away.

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    Or, a cultural misunderstanding over courting rituals might have been easily solved but neither of them liked to speak of his gold madness.

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