Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 14

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 14
Chapter Summary: The Fellowship crosses the Anduin and enters the battle-broken Brown Lands traveling east--where storms and worse await them.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, the Fellowship
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3400
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( Why couldn’t this whole confounded quest have waited until spring, I ask you? )