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New Friends (1100 words)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Frodo Baggins, Boromir (Son of Denethor II), Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Denethor II
Additional Tags: Fluff, Friendship, First Meetings, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 5 of Clarity of Vision
Summary: On one of his annual trips north to Annuminas with Bilbo and Thorin, Frodo encounters a couple of boys in some peril and helps out.
Note: Happy birthday to

starsandsea! This is our ninth birthday shared in fandom, and every one has been precious to me.

( We must remember to pack even more biscuits this time, as Gimli and Legolas ate them all last year. )

Title: Of the Passing of the Ringbearers
Chapter Summary: Frodo and Sam travel east for the last time with Thorin and Bilbo before their last journey west.
Relationship/Characters: Thorin/Bilbo; Sam, Frodo, Boromir, Arwen
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings.
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-typical character death
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2600
Summary: Excerpts from the Red Book of Westmarch, in which can be found the tales of various characters from Clarity of Purpose: their histories, their lives, and their passing.

( Most agree that Frodo Baggins, writer of travelogues and fairy tales and romances, was a hobbit of very little consequence indeed. )

Title: Of Denethor and Theoden
Chapter Summary: On the first meeting, lives, and last days of the king of Rohan and the son of the last Steward of Gondor.
Relationship/Characters: Denethor, Theoden
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings.
Warnings/Spoilers: Canon-typical character death
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1500
Summary: Excerpts from the Red Book of Westmarch, in which can be found the tales of various characters from Clarity of Purpose: their histories, their lives, and their passing.

( Théoden was a brave child, and strong, if somewhat reckless and thoughtless. And in those days bravery was sorely needed, for trouble came often to Rohan, as bands of Dunlending bandits plagued and harried the Rohirrim, burning their houses and stealing their horses. )

Title: Of Frodo and his Cousins
Chapter Summary: From Frodo's childhood to his young adulthood, his cousins Thorin and Bilbo were always a part of his life.
Relationship/Characters: Thorin/Bilbo; Frodo
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5000
Summary: Excerpts from the Red Book of Westmarch, in which can be found the tales of various characters from Clarity of Purpose: their histories, their lives, and their passing.

( For Frodo Baggins, son of Primula and Drogo Baggins, there was never a time when Cousin Bilbo and Cousin Thorin were not in his life. )

Title: Of Finduilas and Denethor
Chapter Summary: Of the wooing, wedding, lives and deaths of Denethor, son of the last Steward of Gondor, and Finduilas, Princess of Dol Amroth.
Relationship/Characters: Denethor/Finduilas
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3200
Summary: Excerpts from the Red Book of Westmarch, in which can be found the tales of various characters from Clarity of Purpose: their histories, their lives, and their passing.

( Denethor sat and watched her blunt, capable fingers coax birds into life in lines on paper, and the sun slid down the sky until she sighed and said it was too dark to draw anymore. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 35/35
Chapter Summary: Bilbo and Thorin return to the Shire and are wed, and our story comes to a close.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Frodo.
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: 3200
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.

( I will be happy to make horseshoes and mend pots. It is a quiet life, and a new challenge. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 34/35
Chapter Summary: Scenes from the road homeward for Thorin and Bilbo.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Balin, Celeborn.
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: 1100
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.
Note: This was meant to be a little side story and birthday present for

ilovetobefree, but it insisted on becoming part of the main story and I couldn't bring myself to leave it out! Happy birthday to my good friend and inspiration!

( Bilbo closed his eyes and listened to the crickets and peepers filling the summer air with song. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 33
Chapter Summary: Bilbo witnesses a coronation and two weddings in Minas Tirith, then travels to Erebor with Thorin to find out the fate of the Lonely Mountain.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Dis, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Finduilas.
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: 4500
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.
Note: Somehow the characters slipped from the army camp at the gates of Mordor to Minas Tirith without my noticing it last chapter, which is incorrect! As this chapter opens, they are still recuperating just outside the Black Gate, preparing to travel west to Minas Tirith.

( There were banners streaming from every rampart, trumpets and harps playing in every corner, flower petals in the air as the High King returned to his city, climbing up through the streets through gate after gate, making his way to the Citadel. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 32
Chapter Summary: Thorin awakes to reunions and explanations.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Dis, Aragorn, Gandalf
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: 3100
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.

( Everything seemed to be suffused with radiance, gentle and warm, and for a moment he nearly panicked: had he died on the battlefield? Was he separated from Bilbo? )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 31
Chapter Summary: The final fate of the Ring and the world (and the members of the Fellowship) are decided.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Gimli, Dis, Legolas, Denethor, Theoden, Thrain, Gollum
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: 2800
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.

( Will you become a father-slayer, will you give up your right to the throne of Erebor? Will you forfeit your place in Mahal’s halls and be cast into the void upon your death? )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 30
Chapter Summary: Thorin and Bilbo reach the Cracks of Doom, and the rest of the Fellowship makes a stand at the Black Gate of Mordor.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: 2800
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.

( Below them there was faint cheering from the armies of Gondor, Rohan, and Saynshar, but Arwen had a care only for the woman lying in her arms. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 29
Chapter Summary: The final battle of the Third Age is joined at the gates of Mordor--and on the slopes of Mount Doom, Thorin and Bilbo struggle on.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: 2400
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.

( Mount Doom was behind the armies of Nurn and the Fellowship now, and the baleful light of Barad-dûr flickered over the plain, painting everything with scarlet as they struck on. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 28
Chapter Summary: Thorin and Bilbo start their run to Mount Doom, and the other members of the Fellowship begin to move toward the Black Gate, and Sauron's army waiting there.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: 2100
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.

( For the experiences of the other members of the Fellowship, this narrative has had to rely on histories and songs to piece together a picture of those great and world-changing events. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 27
Chapter Summary: The Fellowship prepares to start its final push to Mount Doom, and Thorin comes to a hard decision.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: 2600
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.

( The fields were filled with tents, the tents filled with starving people, their hands gnarled and backs bent with decades of toil--and yet there was an electric energy in the air, something nearly like hope. People smiled and laughed over their meagre food, and when the wind shifted and gray ash drifted out of the west in a fine haze that coated everything, they merely knocked it off their tents and moved on. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 26
Chapter Summary: The Fellowship enters Nurn, the eastern part of Mordor.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: None
Word Count: 2100
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.

( The desert gave way so gradually to plains--the dunes flattening out, the grasses going from coarse and scrubby to thicker and lusher--that Bilbo hardly noticed it until the morning that he realized that they were in a sea of waving grass, starred with white flowers. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 25
Chapter Summary: Three conversations on the road to Mordor, each about love, in their own way.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: None
Word Count: 1900
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.

( I ask you, my lady, for some scrap of comfort, some glimmer of hope that I will not sit bereft in the halls of my ancestors forever. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 24
Chapter Summary: A confrontation with a vampire and a flight into the desert.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
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: None
Word Count: 1900
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.

( If you were brave enough to take the power that is your due, you would have joined me millennia ago rather than remain a slave. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 23
Chapter Summary: Thorin's rescue party overhears one conversation, interrupts another, and finds themselves in great danger.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Thrain
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: R for violence
Word Count: 2200
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.

( Once Erebor is taken, my troops will fall back before your Ironfists. You shall be hailed as the liberator of the Lonely Mountain. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 22
Chapter Summary: Thorin leads a rescue mission into the palace of Saynshar, while the rest of the party prepares to flee the city southward into the Desert of Nurn.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Denethor, Gimli, Dis, Arwen, Aragorn, Legolas, Theoden
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: 2500
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.

( The Ring must be destroyed. If it is not, there is no future for us beyond war and bloodshed. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 21
Chapter Summary: A reunion of wizards, and an ambush with dire consequences.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Denethor, Gimli, Dis, Arwen, Aragorn, Legolas, Theoden
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: 2900
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.

( They are the Order of Life in name only now, though they claim that they have only now truly become it. Their head priestess, Il-Qaltun, claims that the Order can prevent death, can give its followers eternal life. )

Clarity of Vision side story: New Friends

Clarity of Purpose Appendix IV: Of the Passing of the Ringbearers

Clarity of Purpose Appendix III: Of Denethor and Theoden

Clarity of Purpose Appendix II: Of Frodo and his Cousins

Clarity of Purpose Appendix I: Of Finduilas and Denethor

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 35

Clarity of Vision, 34/35

Clarity of Purpose; Chapter 33

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 32/34

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 31

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 30

Clarity of Vision, Chapter 29

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 28

Clarity of Purpose 27

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 26

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 25

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 24

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 23

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 22

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 21

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