Eomer/OC - a girl falls into Middle Earth, but instead of a 'joins the Fellowship' story she stays in Rohan as the trouble with Isengard and Wormtongue brews. Her knowledge is a dangerous weapon - but she has a strong protector. This is a re-write of the incomplete story I started years ago, it will be very different from the original.

The Winter Soldier is recognised as being Bucky Barnes by a computer programmer when he visits the Smithsonian. "If I decrypt the files for you, will you let me go?" Katherine asked carefully, not wanting to anger her kidnapper. Barnes simply tilted his head slightly as he stared at her, his gaze eerily blank and cold; eventually, after a long moment, he gave a single, sharp nod.

When he made her that offer it felt like an eclipse; the moon temporarily obscuring the radiance of the sun. But she could still see light encircling the shadowed orb. It gave her hope. She had come here to save Ben Solo. And that's what she would do. As her fingertips grazed his gloved ones she knew how much he wanted to prove to her she belonged at his side…

Thorin Oakenshield lives but his nephews perished. Robbed of heirs the Line of Durin is all but broken unless the last surviving descendant fathers a son. Will the grieving King still struggling with Dragon Sickness be able to open his heart to love? And if he does, will the object of his desires return it? [Thorin, OC], Dís, Balin, Dwalin, Bofur, Dain (post-BotFA).

COMPLETE - "Your presence here in Middle-Earth is like the wind in the trees, Miss Darrow," Gandalf said, smoke wreathed around his head. "You may stir the branches, even knock loose a few leaves, but the tree itself remains untouched." Thorin/OC,