Purple Prose

Title: Neither Here Nor There
Author: emelye_miller
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Frodo Baggins/Sam Gamgee
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Summary: "He’d relived his adventure a hundred times over for the entertainment of the shire and the education of his nephew and the young Gamgee. The words of the tale were like polished rocks, worn smooth by the passage of time. But these words, these particular words he’d committed to paper and done his utmost to never think on them but when the nights were coldest and he felt the call of the West most keenly. On those nights he would sometimes sit with his old ring before the fire until dawn, lest he be taken down into dreams sweetly torturous and the longing to wander affect him more strongly in the morning.

This is the account of a prince of Erebor, companion to the King Under the Mountain, King of Durin’s Folk…"
Warnings: Major Character Death.

“Uncle? What is this?”