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“It is strange, though,” says Frodo at length. It’s so quiet that Sam isn’t sure it was meant for him.
“What’s strange?” he asks after a few seconds have passed.
Frodo skims his fingers just below the surface of the water. “Being back here, I suppose,” he says, still in a soft, low tone. “I never thought….well, the last time we were here, it was beautiful, of course. But there was this dreadful business always looming over me. It never left my mind, not once. So I never got the chance to settle in and truly enjoy this place, not in the way Bilbo does. I had hoped, before, that if I did get the opportunity to come back things would be different. But it's…” he trails off. His hand hangs limply in the water. “It’s strange.”
The hobbits visit Rivendell once again on their homeward bound. Frodo tries to cope. Sam watches.
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“It’s not hurting me, Sam,” he says softly, and then, because Sam is still looking at him mournfully, “though it does ache.”
Sam nods like he had known as much all along. “Mr. Elrond said it might. He left some ointments that might ease it, if you’d like…” he trails off uncertainly.
Clearing his throat, Frodo pulls the drawstrings to his robe tighter. “Ah, yes, well. That would be nice, Sam, yes.” Because his shoulder does ache. Very much so.
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- Part 1 of Respite
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In which Mr. Bilbo has a strange niece, and Sam doesn't know how to feel.
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And then a Plank in Reason, broke, by bayleavves
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
29 Jul 2024
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Bag End is fitted with new windows. Things devolve from there.
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praying for some kind of intermission by bayleavves
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
13 Aug 2023
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The night of September 22nd, Frodo comes of age and Bilbo vanishes from the Shire forever. As the newly minted Master of Bag End, Frodo is left to pick up the pieces of his old life and start a new one.
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Enemy, apprentice, friend. Associate is too clinical, lover sounds too personal, partner too enduring. Confidante? Comrade? Companion?
There is no word for what Levi is, to him. What do you call an equal other than an equal?
A counterpart, Erwin thinks.
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from ACWNR to fall of Wall Maria
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10 Jul 2026
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The Raven and the Badger by lightningskipper
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
02 Apr 2025
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Set Pre-Quest. Out in what's considered the far flung borders of the Shire, Oatbarton holds one of the most rambunctious Harvestmath festivals around; the sort that 'respectable' hobbits like the Sackville-Baggins wouldn't be caught dead at. It's the one night to go wild.
Perfect, Frodo thinks, for one last hurrah before moving to the Shire proper.
(Or in which poor life choices are made.)
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02 Apr 2026
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Mathom by Willow-wode [archived by WestOfTheMoon_Archivist]
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
13 Mar 2005
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Frodo's birthday gift to Sam is not merely something to set upon the mantel-piece.
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27 Jan 2026
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The Library of Waking Dreams by Matilda Filch [archived by WestOfTheMoon_Archivist]
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
18 Jul 2004
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Frodo decides to re-arrange his library at the height of summer, and enlists the help of his lovely gardener...
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27 Jan 2026
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If death is a storm upon the sea, is salvation not a lighthouse upon the shore?
Modern medicine has done all it can for Viktor and in desperation, he turns to an esoteric promise of a fabled plant that supposedly can cure him. Arriving at the lighthouse, he meets Jayce Talis, a man whose warm welcome may harbour darker intentions.
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20 Jan 2026