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    Great-aunt Pansy Baggins had claimed from the very beginning that nothing good would come from the marriage between the most respectable of the Baggins and the most rebellious of the Tooks. No one believed her when young Bilbo, born too soon and too weak to cry, survived his first weeks into the world.

    They changed their mind when, at four years of age, Bilbo transmuted his mother’s cutlery into a flute and began to play the elven lullaby Belladonna sang for him every night.

    It caused a scandal. For the Baggins side of the family, anyway. The Took side had a good laugh.
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    A Retelling of The Hobbit in which Bilbo is an Alchemist and uses it to help the Dwarves in their Quest. He doesen't always change Fate, but sometimes he does.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Gandalf assumes that he is going to be able to bully Bilbo into coming along on the quest for Erebor. You know what they say about people who assume... Bilbo's not going, and nothing Gandalf can say is going to change his mind.

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    03 Apr 2026

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    There are several things that the dwarves don't know about the hobbit that is traveling with them. Things that Bilbo is glad to let them find out for themselves along the way.

    The first is that he's prepared for anything. His mother used to quiz him about what he'd do in any situation - from relatives to trolls - and Bilbo never disappointed her with his answers. Riding a pony all day gives him plenty of time to plan for everything.

    The second is that he can throw a stone or any other small object hard enough to embed it several inches into a tree trunk. His accuracy is uncanny even by Shire standards. He's quite proud of it.

    The third is that he doesn't actually say so many proverbs when at home but it seems to annoy the dwarves so he spends time thinking up all the ones he's heard before.

    And last, hobbits scold like it is no one's business. The Dwarves he's traveling with really have no idea what will happen if they truly piss him off.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Inspired from a post made by wheeloffortune-design on tumblr.

    Tired of his lonely kitchen in Yavanna's Garden, Bilbo Baggins wonders if the dwarven love of being underground is true in death. If so, maybe his dwarves are living (ha ha) under the very land Bilbo is weeding.

    With that thought, Bilbo goes and asks Hamfast for a shovel.

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    29 Mar 2026

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    Gimli dies--and then wakes up in the past, right before the Quest for Erebor. His next actions prove to have long-reaching consequences.

    By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

    Book 1 - Comes Around Again

    "Sooner or later, everything you thought you left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again." - Stephen King

    Book 2 - We Are Made Wise

    “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ― George Bernard Shaw.

    Book 3 - The Greatest Test of Courage

    "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert Green Ingersoll

    Book 4 - Our Greatest Glory

    "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Goldsmith.

    Book 5 - Never a Night

    "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." - Bernard Williams

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    24 Mar 2026