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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 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. )