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1. An Inherited Heart by Cupcake_Princess

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

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Multi, F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
   • Kíli (Tolkien)/Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)
   • Gimli/Legolas Greenleaf
   • Dwalin/Nori (Tolkien)
   • Bilbo Baggins
   • Thorin Oakenshield
   • Thorin's Company
   • Gimli (Tolkien)
   • Thranduil (Tolkien)
   • Gandalf (Tolkien)
   • Dís (Tolkien)
   • Fortinbras Took II | 29th Thain of the Shire
   • Drogo Baggins
   • Legolas Greenleaf
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Alternate Universe - Bilbo Remains In Erebor
   • Bilbo Baggins Destroys the One Ring
   • BAMF Bilbo Baggins
   • Sassy Bilbo Baggins
   • Bofur is a Little Shit (Tolkien)
   • Humor
   • Thorin is shmoopy
   • BAMF Dís (Tolkien)
   • BAMF Hobbits
   • Balin is So Done (Tolkien)
   • Established Relationship
   • No Homophobia
   • All I'm saying is Leonard of Quirm would be bloody proud
   • Abuse of Khuzdul
   • post time travel fix it
   • Technically a parallel universe
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • adding tags as I go
   • Nwalin slow burn
   • now with more bets
   • BAMF Drogo Baggins
   • Trans Nori (Tolkien)
   • Animal Death
   • the inherent eroticism of wound care
   • Nori is a Little Shit (Tolkien)
   • Bagginshield and Nwalin main focus
   • M is for violence and non-explicit sexual content
   • Smut kept in separate works and entirely optional
   • Physical Disability
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Fantasy Racism
   • readding the chaotic science tag
   • now with chaotic engineering
   • Complete
   • Developing Relationship

   Summary

   In a mountain, standing like a knife against the eastern sky, there lived a hobbit.

   Not a cold, draughty crypt of a mountain, filled with cries of the dead and pain of the living, nor yet a new-born colony, striking out its place in the world. It was Erebor, and Bilbo Baggins had made the choice to remain six months prior, after the Battle of the Five Armies had solidified the Kingdom as one to be respected once more.

   Something in his pocket began to stir.

   Or: Bilbo Baggins discovers The One Ring. Everyone has a bad time.

    

   (This is a sequel. The previous works total around 13k, including a one-shot of skippable smut. All smut associated with this work will be placed in skipabble side stories. Please do not be put off by the archive warnings on the others as it is NOT WHAT YOU THINK. I highly reccomend reading at least CYTM first.)

   Series

   • Part 4 of Live Your Life

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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