Here a new story that I am testing out. Pretty much the main pairing it going to be Thorin and my main OC Lily but the rest of the Company who are unmarried meaning everyone but Gloin and Bombur are going to get a few surprises in their lives very soon. Though some of them are just going to forge a strong friendship with some of my own character but you are going to have to read the story to find out who.
Also heads up no one died in the Battle of Five Armies since I need each and every character to be in my story which means that Balin and Ori do not go to Moria to reclaim it that is going to happen a long long time from my story and even then I will write it so they survive since I just can't stand the thought of any of the Hobbit Characters dying.
I seriously do NOT know what Tolkien was thinking killing so many of the Company off like that. I admire the man I really do he is alomst like an idol of mine but I seriously wish I could give a good talking to him to tell him just what I think of him killing them off.
DISCLAIMER : I do not own the Hobbit, any of its characters, its plot line or anything you may recognize from J.R.R. Tolkien's original works all the credit goes to his brilliantly creative mind.
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Ever at your service,
LonelyWinterRose
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Chapter One : The Letters
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The Company had never seen their hobbit so nervous.
Not when he argued over the culinary arts of cooking Dwarves with trolls to save their skins, not when facing down Azog to save Thorin's life or being chased by Warg's, not even when Thorin was ailed with gold Sickness and almost literally threw him over Erebor's battlements.
Sure he had a natural case of severe jitters throughout the quest he had just been taken from his safe home in the Shire and dragged across Middle Earth by a Wizard and twelve Dwarves to go retake a long lost kingdom taken by a dragon which he would later be expected to steal from after all.
No, even in those instances the sickly pale green sweating pallor of Bilbo's skin now does not not compare.
And none of them could understand why just holding a letter could send their brave hobbit down like a bride on her wedding night.
One would think that a letter from home and his family in the Shire would make him smile and laugh in relief that they didn't think him dead after not having word from in in almost two years not make him want to faint which it looked like he very much did want to reenact his little fainting spell from when they started the quest at Bag End and Bofur had taken it upon himself to tell him in excruciating detail just what the characteristics were that make up a dragon.
But as the minutes went by and his appearance continued to worsen making even Bombur stop eating his dinner in concern they finally decided that they should at least try to see what was so troubling about the letter still clutched tightly in Bilbo's hands where he rested them shakily on top of the dinning table.
By the time Bilbo had read both letters he was as white as a sheet and seemed to be on the verge of fainting.
Extremely worried for his health and curious of what he must have read to make him so sickly looking Bofur stood from his seat beside Bilbo and took the letters from his hands having to pry the hobbits fingers open to extract the rumpled and creased papers.
Sitting back down in his seat aware of the eyes of the Company on him he scanned the first letter wondering what had first made Bilbo start to pale he began to read the words in his head thinking that Bilbo was both to frozen to stop him from reading them and that he really wouldn't mind that he would.
The farther he got into the first letter the higher his eye brows rose until they were unseen disappearing under his hat.
From the look of the various names and styles of writing it seemed as if Bilbo had quite a few nieces and though they couldn't possibly be from the same mother, though they could as he didn't know much about hobbits, but fourteen nieces seemed a bit extreme coming from just one mother when Dwarves were lucky to have one or two children.
The lasses seemed to be of a good enough sort with manners that seemed impeccable, a constant that Bilbo had assured him most all hobbits possessed, they certainly cared for their Uncle since they were quite clear that they were concerned for his well being both at the hands of the journey, Dwarves who they got the meaning across as the-Dwarves-who-kidnapped-their-dear-favorite-uncle and apparently one of the sisters named Lily.
There was nothing in the first letter that he could see that would cause Bilbo to look the way he did, after all you would think that hearing from his many nieces would be a good thing.
However, when he started reading the second letter he began to pale as well for this Lily seemed to be quite intimidating and slightly scary and she had only written some of her thoughts on the whole matter of Bilbo coming with them.
He was surprised and pleased that she knew a bit about them and thought them to be better than elves even though she expressed a desire to know what they were like and if Bilbo had met any, which he indeed had.
Clearing his throat and pulling at the neck of his tunic in an attempt to loosen it from his throat which suddenly felt quite constricted, Bofur looked up swallowing heavily thinking that he certainly didn't want to be in the greeting party when Bilbo's nieces arrived for they did seem to be coming to the Mountain despite the dauntless journey.
They seemed quite determined especially this Lily who quite frankly scared him, and he hasn't even met the lass yet.
He felt a large spot of pity grow in his chest for the poor sod who would be faced with greeting her and her sisters and also hoped that she wouldn't damage Bilbo as much as she seemed to want to since he was quite fond of his Hobbit friend as were the rest of the Company and a good number of Dwarves who have met their prized burglar when they came back to the mountain.
Looking across the table to where Gloin sat Bofur reached out and handed it to him thinking that if anyone could handle that second letter and understand why the second made Bilbo look like death was at his door it would be him or Balin.
Though he couldn't exactly give the letters to Balin as he was sitting four seats away from him next to Thorin and the Lady Dis both of whom looked at the letters in Gloin's hands just as curiously as the rest though Thorin was also shooting concerned glances at the still frozen Hobbit as he has become quite fond of him trying to make up for banishing him while he had been ailed with Gold Sickness.
Gloin's reaction was much the same as his own and when he passed it to Oin who was sitting next to him his reaction again mirrored the first two.
The letter was passed along the table to the rest of the company who were ranging from amusement, in Dwalin's case, to nervous worry in Ori's instance.
Everyone in the room grew quite nervous as they shot glaces at Bilbo who looked like he was going into shock which would probably be replaced by a not so small amount of rationally reasonable panic once the shock wore off and the event he just read about in his nieces letter's sunk in.
When the letter finally reach the head of the table and were placed into Thorin hands they were all treated to the rare sight of their King losing his outward cool as he started to mirror Bilbo's own parlor probably imagines all the things the writer of the second letter would do to him when she arrived and found out just who had dragged her Uncle away.
Dis seeing her brothers slowly declining skin tone snatched the letters from Thorin's hands and proceeded to reqad them aloud as if everyone in the room who had already read the letters needed to be reminded of just what words were written on those two innocent looking pieces of papers, they would be lucky if they ever looked at another piece of any type pf parchment again.
"Dear Uncle Bilbee, Bilbo,
We assume that if you are reading this now you are indeed not dead and that Violet and Tansy owe Bluebell and Lavender six gold pieces. (Uncle B, I have tried to stop the betting of whether or not you still live but my younger sisters are stubborn as you well know. C)
When you disappeared so suddenly on your 'Adventure' Lobelia and Lotho took no time in trying to ransack Bag End. Trying being the key word for you are ever so lucky that you have such wonderful nieces that are good at forging your hand and hitting annoying spiteful relatives over their heads with various hard objects. (Do not worry over much no lasting harm was done to either of our dreadful Sackville-Baggins cousins except maybe to their pride and a few bruises on several body parts but they have more than enough of the former to still fare well so no offenses were brought forth on any of us. M)
Anyway, Bag End remains safe from their evil clutches with Hamfast posted as guard and Drogo and his small squad of friends taking rotating posts. We couldn't very well let them take advantage of your absence we only just recovered your silver spoons for you. (Ask not or wonder how as I'm sure you know that Holly has her ways of attaining things and that Lily, who is mad at you for not taking her with you, has been practicing to take over the rights to thwart our cousins her whole life. PPY)
Mother is very cross with you by the way though we think half of her anger is because you didn't see fit to take at least a few of us with you and thus off her hands. Fourteen girls under one roof is quite enough for her we think. (Though the Green Lady knows why she had to go and have fourteen girls to begin with. Wasn't the first four enough? D)
But that is all beside the point Uncle Bilbo, why did you have to leave 'then' on and 'adventure' with 'Dwarves' and Gandalf? (Yes we know who you left with, Lily is ever so good at attaining information. V) Couldn't you have waited just a while longer? (Lily is dreadfully mad at you by the by for not saying anything to her or really any of us. I believe that she is writing a separate letter to you now. PNY) (Wondering off into the blue on an adventure really isn't like you Uncle Bilbee. Oh I would sit down when you read Lily's letter she's gone and locked herself in her room to write it, we've heard several things break and so far she's only been in there an hour. PR)
We are really only writing to you to tell you of Bag Ends health and mothers ire along with our worry for you. Some of us have written side notes for you to read we have labeled them 'before' and 'after' you read Lily's letter. We fear she will do something foolish and though we will try to talk her out of it. (You know she is like a mountain, unmovable once she's made a decision. T)
Hope this letter finds you in good health. (Or well relative good health as you are most likely to have sweated out half your body's fluid before you even opened the letter. DAF) (And turned an unfortunate shade of pale sickly green like when Lily put those toads and spiders in Lobelia's bed and she came to you to complain about it. PEY) (I've bet Tansy five gold coins that you will pass out and have a heart attack. LAV)
With all our love, and Lily's rage,
Clover (C) the eldest
Daisy (D) the most responsible
Tansy (T) the better
Pansy (PNY) the talker
Peony (PEY) the sweet
Poppy (PPY) the loud
Bluebell (B) the noble
Marigold (M) the bright
Lavender (LAV) the matchmaker
Lily (L) the leader
Violet (V) the hungry
Holly (H) the thief
Daffodil (DAF) the cunning
Primrose (PR) the youngest
PS - (Primrose decided to give us all titles so we would sound more like noble knights off to save damsels in distress which mostly likely she means we are off to save you from Lily. The rest of us had nothing to do with it. H)"
PSS - (Read my letter or else. L)"
The letter was written in what looked to be one main hand that was of a very elegant script but their were breaks where certain lines and notes were written indifferent writing styles probably one for each niece, some were very neat and practiced while other could only be described as unruly and quite difficult to decipher since they were very messy some of the letters big and wide spaced and others almost too small to read properly.
The notes that the were mentioned to have been written in the letter for Bilbo to read before and after he read the second letter were no where to be seen or at least they were not with the two letters she held in her hands but they could easily still be in the looking to be comatose Hobbits possession so she passed the thought off to see if she could read them latter hoping that they were not as well confusing to read as this letter was.
Pausing to look up at everyone else in the room who were all looking at her most of their faces pale and somber when she reads the last line of the letter marked to have been written by the mysterious Lily who seemed frightening enough to grown Dwarrow's for them to look ill with just one simple five word sentence Dis felt her own face pale and sat down leaning heavily against the back of her chair her knees suddenly weak.
How someone much less a Hobbit lass who for all anyone knew were suppose to be all sunshine and soft flower petals could manage to sound so threatening with just a few words of warning was a mystery to her and though she felt that they would get along splendidly she was quite afraid to find out just how nice polite Bilbo's niece could manage such a feat.
It was a shame she hadn't been born yet when she was a dwarfling she had a feeling that she would have been all to happy to help her get back at her two brothers for all the tricks and pranks they pulled on her, though on second thought perhaps if they did meet and become friends the young Hobbit lass wouldn't mind helping her now.
Deciding to put the last thought away for now if only so save herself from worrying about whether she would not have the trick replayed on her if her older brother befriend Bilbo's niece first Dis turned back to the letter missing the even farther paling of the Company's faces as they prepared themselves for her to read aloud the second letter which had made them all go so pale to begin with.
"Dear Uncle Bilbus, Bilbo,
Let me start out by saying that I am very mad at you and that when next I see you, for I have no doubt that you aren't dead, I will show you just how displeased I am with you that you did not think to ask me to accompany you on your unexpected adventure.
I say 'unexpected' because as you well know you are very predictable and have acted the part of a respectable Baggins more than your fauntling days of acting on your Tookish roots. For that you know I am mad at you, for you have refused to go outside the Shire with me on more than one occasion and now that you have, you have seemed to forget to take me with you.
If the rumors I've heard are true and you did have several Dwarves, (really Dwarves?), over for dinner and then went off with them on a spontaneous adventure, (are you madder than even I thought?), then I'd like to commend you on stepping outside your tiny little box of boringness.
However, that does not save you from my wrath and I expect to be introduced to them whenever the time may come.
I am beginning to doubt your sanity Uncle and though I am proud that someone, (a certain gray clothed and pointy hatted Wizard perhaps?), has finally gotten you to see a bit of the world you have always dreamt about. By the by, I will have words with said Wizard so make sure he is there to hear them and not off to hide away from my arrival.
Speaking of my arrival I have decided that I am to leave the Shire and follow in you footsteps to the Lonely Mountain. If you are wondering how I know of your adventures destination I must say that if you didn't want someone to know where you are going don't leave behind a map that shows you future plotted steps and use more tact and subtlety when traveling across no doubt half of Middle Earth. By now probably half of said Middle Earth knows that thirteen Dwarves are traipsing off to some old strong hold of theirs with a meddling Wizard and disgruntled Hobbit in their company.
I will also have words with your Dwarven friends and I expect that you all will tell me of everything that happened on your journey with no detail being left out, I will know if you have, and what your adventures true purpose is, the true one again I will know, along with to what the end is that dragging you off into the wild would give them.
(Why exactly the blasted Wizard got it into his mind to drag off my Uncle on an adventure of all things he could have had a Baggins do while throwing him in with a gaggle of Dwarves who probably couldn't scrounge up decent table manners even if their very lives depended on it I can't fathom).
I have done research as you know I have always been fascinated by Dwarves culture and their secrecy so I have a few ideas why they would need a Hobbit and our more subtle ways of going about things. If there is one difference between the Dwarrow folk and us Hobbit's it's that we are certainly better are going about unnoticed and unheard when we want where Dwarves have all the subtlety of a group of mountain trolls trying to catch a chicken with it's head cut off.
I assume that you have encountered an all matter of dark creatures trolls and possibly goblins included for if indeed you were, I assume you have reached wherever you were set off to by now, destined for the lost kingdom of Erebor then you would have to cross the Misty Mountains at sometime and goblins are notorious for living in dark dank caves.
That being said of the destined Erebor do you not have any common sense? The only reason Dwarves do not still abide there is because it was taken by a dragon! I will throttle you just for even thinking of going within a twenty, no a hundred, mile radius to that kind of accursed beast.
If you were hurt in any way along your journey I will hold your Dwarves and Gandalf accountable and inflict the same upon them as was done to you.
As for my curiosity about you travels and what you may have encountered, did you meet any elves? If you did what were they like? I've had glimpses of them when they travel the woods near Bree with the Rangers but I have never met one personally only gazed upon the from afar. Their culture is almost as interesting and enthralling as the Durin folks.
Anyway I hope you are not too wounded for I would hate to have to wait to beat some sense into you until you healed. My anger may fade a bit by then but I will still have enough ire to see my threat a reality so do not get any ideas of stalling this end.
You may expect me and my sisters, for they surely will not leave me to travel alone, possibly three months from the time you receive this letter should our way be unclogged by any obstacles. Do not think to run for I will find you, do not think to fight the unavoidable for I will over power you with the help of my sisters if need be. Stay where you are and stay nervous if you will my, our, arrival will gain the lot of us many things I'm sure.
With all my love and affection along with the wrath and fury of all I am,
Lilliana Greenthumb second heiress of Took Land as appointed by The Old Took and the Baggins family's first willed Heir after the Lord Bilbus Baggins.
Daughter of Petunia Greenthumb née Baggins great great grandniece of Bullroarer Took and favorite granddaughter of The Old Took, Thain of the Shire. And daughter of Boffin Greenthumb Guardian of Willspire Hill and Head of the Greenthumb family.
PS - I put my full title to remind you that I do have a right to bring forth the absolute of your actions involving leaving me, your first heir, behind. Need I remind you that I could very well go to The Old Took and officially claim you as unsteady in the head? - L"
Shaking her head in disbelief at the spunk and daring of this seemingly fearless young Hobbit she placed the letters on the table in front of her unable to suppress a shoulder running down her spine as she changed her mind about enlisting her help at getting back at Thorin, (she actually was glad for once that her brother Frerin is not with them any longer so he doesn't have to face such a being), if Bilbo's niece helped her there would be nothing left of her brother and Erebor and their people couldn't exactly go without a King.
She knew that she wasn't all too keen on taking the throne should her brother die such an unfortunate but surely amusing death via a angry Hobbit lass and she would rather cut off her out hair than see either of her son's take the throne.
Fili and Kili are her sons, all she had left of her late husband Vili, and though she knew that Thorin is in need of an Heir and that by law and blood Fili is next in line with Kili after him since he has yet to find his One she knows of the burden the leading their people puts on ones shoulders she took half the weight off her brother herself, it aged people before their time and she did not want her sons to have to should the weighty responsibility of becoming King.
However, she had a feeling that she could not she the young Hobbit lass if her own thirteen sister and Uncle couldn't and personally she didn't even want to try it would serve Thorin and the Company right for taking Bilbo from his nice safe worry free home and family in the Shire.
The fact that she was nervous for the fourteen nieces of Erebor's resident Hobbit to arrive at the Lonely Mountain especially a certain one named Lily and be let lose upon it at their will and her suspicion that they just might not leave with the mountain still standing and half its resident half way insane troubled her to the point that she allowed herself to slouch in her chair and let out an unladylike huff of air.
Turning her head to look at her brother who's body position much matched her own she fixed him with her best glare the one that send Dwarves running to obey her biding when they won't even listen to Thorin and simply stated with deep foreboding, "What have you done?".
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TO BE CONTINUED
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I kind of typed this in a rush so sorry if their are any mistakes in it. Also sorry if the point of views jumped around a bit I'm trying a new thing out where I have several people point of views in one chapter so to get an all around vision of the on going events in the story.
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Next Chapter : Fainting Hobbit's, frazzled Dwarves, rumors of the Lonely Mountain falling down on its inhabitants heads, and preparations to greet and get into the good graces of Bilbo's nieces.
Every at your service,
LonelyWinterRose