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| 2004 | - | - | - | 182 | 1042 | 655 | 89 | 25 | 263 | 362 | 316 | 285 |
| 2005 | 189 | 56 | 107 | 538 | 347 | 446 | 97 | 276 | 194 | 358 | 565 | 136 |
| 2006 | 231 | 66 | 27 | 76 | 117 | 139 | 127 | 56 | 67 | 66 | 159 | 79 |
| 2007 | 20 | 25 | 7 | - | 29 | 72 | 99 | 143 | 3 | 185 | 83 | 103 |
| 2008 | 56 | 13 | 3 | 54 | 240 | 141 | 274 | 77 | 51 | 60 | 90 | 106 |
| 2009 | 28 | 3 | - | 39 | 194 | 101 | 72 | 27 | 22 | 15 | 36 | 24 |
| 2010 | 67 | - | 1 | 4 | 103 | 138 | 129 | 32 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 30 |
| 2011 | 1 | - | 17 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 90 | 61 | 32 | 7 | 5 | 8 |
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Story ID: 87 · "The Still Point" by stultiloquentia · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: PG-13 Non-graphic sex scene.
First Choice Category Times: The Great Years
Story's URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=1098
Story Summary: Midsummer Night. Arwen. Aragorn. Well, somebody had to do it!
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Story ID: 251 · "Thus We Part" by Tinni · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG It contains some adult themes
First Choice Category Times: First Age
Story's URL: http://tinni.100megsfree5.com/Silmarillion/thusWeParted.htm
Story Summary: Thoughts of Celebrimbor as he and Curufin part way in
Nargothrond
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Story ID: 88 · "Was It For This?" by Alawa · (Other Fiction: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlet)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=736
Story Summary: Aragorn at his father's grave. A short story written for
a 'War and Remembrance' Challenge.
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Story ID: 296 · "A stranger Among us, or, Here and Back Again." by
Ottis413 · (Other Fiction: Medium Length)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Times: Fourth Age and Beyond
Story's URL: http://www.scribeoz.com/fanfic/story.php?no=2547
Story Summary: Characters: Elrond, Sir Peter Tennant, and a near cameo
by J. R. R. Tolkien. Adapted from a story by Clark Ashton Smith. A
stranger shows up at Oxford, England in 1933, capturing the attention of
a teacher at Queens Collage, Peter Tennant, (a real person, Sir Peter
Tennant was a contemporary of J R R Tolkien in the 1930s, and a hero of
WWII). As he investigates this stranger, a Mr. Elton Smith, they becomes
friends, and he finds that as well as being friends with Prof. Tolkien,
this stranger is much more then meets the eye...
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Story ID: 250 · "A Precious Gift" by Isil Elensar · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL:
http://www.sweetdreamssanctuary.net/sanctuary/viewstory.php?sid=175
Story Summary: A brief glimpse of a happy moment in the House of Finwe.
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Story ID: 331 · "Fond Memory" by Isil Elensar · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL:
http://www.sweetdreamssanctuary.net/sanctuary/viewstory.php?sid=214
Story Summary: It's been ten long years since the passing of their
mother Finduilas, but instead of grieving, Faramir and Boromir share a
fond memory of her.
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Story ID: 323 · "The Dancing Master" by Flick · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Men
Story's URL: http://undonne.livejournal.com/78758.html
Story Summary: How Faramir and Eowyn learned to dance
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Story ID: 614 · "We Were Young Once ~ I" by CorielConquistadora · (Other
Fiction: Epic)
Rating: PG-13 Rated for mature themes that would not be fully
appreciated by a younger readership. Also contains some violent images.
First Choice Category Races: Elves
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=1750
Story Summary: This is the story of the second Elvenking of Greenwood,
Thranduil Oropherion, his rise from refugee to prince and beyond, from
the First Age through to the Fourth. (Basically, it is to Tolkien canon
what Virgil's Aeneid is to Homer's Iliad.) As the first completed
installment of a trilogy, these chapters cover mostly the early Second Age.
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Story ID: 133 · "A Bath-time Song" by SlightlyTookish · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3017&cid=18171
Story Summary: Bilbo and Pippin discuss their love of bathing while
Bilbo passes along one of his own bath traditions to the youngster.
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Story ID: 135 · "Elves Do Skate" by Caporal · (Other Fiction: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlet)
Rating: PG Rated PG for mild romantic content.
First Choice Category Genres: Humor
Story's URL: http://caporal.livejournal.com/7258.html
Story Summary: It's winter at Lake Helevorn, and Caranthir son of
Fëanor's houseguests have nothing better to do than gossip. (PG, implied
Angrod/Caranthir.)
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Story ID: 569 · "defining a circle shape through points" by Dana ·
(Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG-13 Rated PG-13 for slash content.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://dana.lightindarkplaces.net/writing/fan/dacstp.htm
Story Summary: From a beginning all the way around to an end. Five
things that could have been.
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Story ID: 572 · "All for the Best" by Dana · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG Rated for mild slash content.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://dana.lightindarkplaces.net/writing/fan/aftb.htm
Story Summary: The one where Pippin joins Merry at Crickhollow, mostly
because he's needed.
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Story ID: 167 · "History Lessons: The Third Age" by Nilmandra · (Other
Fiction: Epic)
Rating: PG-13 Battle scenes
First Choice Category Times: Multi-Age
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3877
Story Summary: The events of the War of the Ring as seen from Elrond's
perspective, with remembrances into the earlier years of the Third Age.
Characters include: Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir, Arwen, Aragorn, Celebrian,
Glorfindel, Mithrandir, Erestor, and Frodo, with appearances by Bilbo,
the members of the Company and various other characters from the books.
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Story ID: 270 · "Curious Mind, Noble Heart" by Nilmandra · (Other
Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Action/Adventure
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3702
Story Summary: Young Estel learns that curiosity can harm more than the
cat. Written to explain how Gandlaf knew about a 'pop-gun', as mentioned
in The Hobbit.
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Story ID: 400 · "First Night" by Pearl Took · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=4117&cid=16076
Story Summary: Pippin returns to his and Gandalf's room on his first
night in Minas Tirith.
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Story ID: 615 · "A Gift of Tears" by vladazhael · (Other Fiction: Short
Story)
Rating: PG Death, angst
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.scribeoz.com/fanfic/story.php?no=2445
Story Summary: Haldir brings sad news home to Lorien.
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Story ID: 399 · "Seeing Stars" by Budgielover · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1247&cid=18290
Story Summary: Unable to believe that attractive hobbit-lasses find
11-year old Pippin more adorable than himself, Merry drags his cousins
back to the Green Dragon for an evening of hopeful flirting.
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Story ID: 89 · "A Message and a Bottle" by Larner · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=5659
Story Summary: The bottle of wine which has been Tobobard Took's
personal birthday mathom for almost forty years comes to Pippin, and he
finds he wishes to let the news old Toby is now dead reach elsewhere.
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Story ID: 121 · "Iridescence" by Larner · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Times: The Great Years
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3966&cid=18175
Story Summary: A gift of beauty to the Ringbearer in Minas Tirith.
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Story ID: 184 · "Lesser Ring" by Larner · (Other Fiction: Novel)
Rating: PG-13 Deaths of characters, discussion of religious and
political fanaticism, violence
First Choice Category Genres: Action/Adventure
Story's URL: http://storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3931
Story Summary: A tale of two visits to Harad.
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Story ID: 419 · "Love Me Now, Forever" by iorhael · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1085&cid=4277
Story Summary: From Bag Ends POV, as Frodo returned home and went to
the Undying Lands
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Story ID: 272 · "Frodo: The Next Generation" by Gentle Hobbit · (Other
Fiction: Medium Length)
Rating: PG There are a couple of moments that might be disturbing for
children: a detailed description of an insertion of a needle, and one
also of mental distress.
First Choice Category Genres: Crossover
Story's URL: http://gentlehobbitfic.livejournal.com/633.html
Story Summary: An odd mission leaves Beverly Crusher with a true mystery
on her hands when she must take care of a most unusual patient. (Note:
Even though the story takes place within the Star Trek: The Next
Generation universe, it deals primarily with elements from LotR.)
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Story ID: 623 · "Desires Of The Hroa" by The Last Temptation of Homer ·
(Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG Some angst and themes not suitable for very young children
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2935897/1/
Story Summary: A married elf ponders his forbidden love for another.
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Story ID: 619 · "On the Anduin" by Gentle Hobbit · (Other Fiction: Short
Story)
Rating: PG-13 There are descriptions of or references to painful
surgery carried out on the main character. Some may find this disturbing.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?SID=4704&CID=18752
Story Summary: This is an AU fic in which Frodo does not have Bilbo's
mithril vest with him during the Quest. When an orc arrow finds its
target, both Frodo and Pippin must explore the meaning of courage, and
what role fear plays therein.
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Story ID: 159 · "Demand and You Shall Receive" by grey_wonderer · (Other
Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Humor
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=2364&cid=17845
Story Summary: A visit to Buckland gives Frodo a chance to learn a thing
or two about dealing with small children.
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Short Story)
Rating: PG-13 Non-graphic sex scene.
First Choice Category Times: The Great Years
Story's URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=1098
Story Summary: Midsummer Night. Arwen. Aragorn. Well, somebody had to do it!
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Story ID: 251 · "Thus We Part" by Tinni · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG It contains some adult themes
First Choice Category Times: First Age
Story's URL: http://tinni.100megsfree5.com/Silmarillion/thusWeParted.htm
Story Summary: Thoughts of Celebrimbor as he and Curufin part way in
Nargothrond
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Story ID: 88 · "Was It For This?" by Alawa · (Other Fiction: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlet)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=736
Story Summary: Aragorn at his father's grave. A short story written for
a 'War and Remembrance' Challenge.
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Story ID: 296 · "A stranger Among us, or, Here and Back Again." by
Ottis413 · (Other Fiction: Medium Length)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Times: Fourth Age and Beyond
Story's URL: http://www.scribeoz.com/fanfic/story.php?no=2547
Story Summary: Characters: Elrond, Sir Peter Tennant, and a near cameo
by J. R. R. Tolkien. Adapted from a story by Clark Ashton Smith. A
stranger shows up at Oxford, England in 1933, capturing the attention of
a teacher at Queens Collage, Peter Tennant, (a real person, Sir Peter
Tennant was a contemporary of J R R Tolkien in the 1930s, and a hero of
WWII). As he investigates this stranger, a Mr. Elton Smith, they becomes
friends, and he finds that as well as being friends with Prof. Tolkien,
this stranger is much more then meets the eye...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 250 · "A Precious Gift" by Isil Elensar · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL:
http://www.sweetdreamssanctuary.net/sanctuary/viewstory.php?sid=175
Story Summary: A brief glimpse of a happy moment in the House of Finwe.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 331 · "Fond Memory" by Isil Elensar · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL:
http://www.sweetdreamssanctuary.net/sanctuary/viewstory.php?sid=214
Story Summary: It's been ten long years since the passing of their
mother Finduilas, but instead of grieving, Faramir and Boromir share a
fond memory of her.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 323 · "The Dancing Master" by Flick · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Men
Story's URL: http://undonne.livejournal.com/78758.html
Story Summary: How Faramir and Eowyn learned to dance
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Story ID: 614 · "We Were Young Once ~ I" by CorielConquistadora · (Other
Fiction: Epic)
Rating: PG-13 Rated for mature themes that would not be fully
appreciated by a younger readership. Also contains some violent images.
First Choice Category Races: Elves
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=1750
Story Summary: This is the story of the second Elvenking of Greenwood,
Thranduil Oropherion, his rise from refugee to prince and beyond, from
the First Age through to the Fourth. (Basically, it is to Tolkien canon
what Virgil's Aeneid is to Homer's Iliad.) As the first completed
installment of a trilogy, these chapters cover mostly the early Second Age.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 133 · "A Bath-time Song" by SlightlyTookish · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3017&cid=18171
Story Summary: Bilbo and Pippin discuss their love of bathing while
Bilbo passes along one of his own bath traditions to the youngster.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 135 · "Elves Do Skate" by Caporal · (Other Fiction: Other
Fixed-Length Ficlet)
Rating: PG Rated PG for mild romantic content.
First Choice Category Genres: Humor
Story's URL: http://caporal.livejournal.com/7258.html
Story Summary: It's winter at Lake Helevorn, and Caranthir son of
Fëanor's houseguests have nothing better to do than gossip. (PG, implied
Angrod/Caranthir.)
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Story ID: 569 · "defining a circle shape through points" by Dana ·
(Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG-13 Rated PG-13 for slash content.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://dana.lightindarkplaces.net/writing/fan/dacstp.htm
Story Summary: From a beginning all the way around to an end. Five
things that could have been.
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Story ID: 572 · "All for the Best" by Dana · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG Rated for mild slash content.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://dana.lightindarkplaces.net/writing/fan/aftb.htm
Story Summary: The one where Pippin joins Merry at Crickhollow, mostly
because he's needed.
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Story ID: 167 · "History Lessons: The Third Age" by Nilmandra · (Other
Fiction: Epic)
Rating: PG-13 Battle scenes
First Choice Category Times: Multi-Age
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3877
Story Summary: The events of the War of the Ring as seen from Elrond's
perspective, with remembrances into the earlier years of the Third Age.
Characters include: Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir, Arwen, Aragorn, Celebrian,
Glorfindel, Mithrandir, Erestor, and Frodo, with appearances by Bilbo,
the members of the Company and various other characters from the books.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 270 · "Curious Mind, Noble Heart" by Nilmandra · (Other
Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Action/Adventure
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3702
Story Summary: Young Estel learns that curiosity can harm more than the
cat. Written to explain how Gandlaf knew about a 'pop-gun', as mentioned
in The Hobbit.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 400 · "First Night" by Pearl Took · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=4117&cid=16076
Story Summary: Pippin returns to his and Gandalf's room on his first
night in Minas Tirith.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 615 · "A Gift of Tears" by vladazhael · (Other Fiction: Short
Story)
Rating: PG Death, angst
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.scribeoz.com/fanfic/story.php?no=2445
Story Summary: Haldir brings sad news home to Lorien.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 399 · "Seeing Stars" by Budgielover · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1247&cid=18290
Story Summary: Unable to believe that attractive hobbit-lasses find
11-year old Pippin more adorable than himself, Merry drags his cousins
back to the Green Dragon for an evening of hopeful flirting.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 89 · "A Message and a Bottle" by Larner · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?stid=5659
Story Summary: The bottle of wine which has been Tobobard Took's
personal birthday mathom for almost forty years comes to Pippin, and he
finds he wishes to let the news old Toby is now dead reach elsewhere.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 121 · "Iridescence" by Larner · (Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Times: The Great Years
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3966&cid=18175
Story Summary: A gift of beauty to the Ringbearer in Minas Tirith.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 184 · "Lesser Ring" by Larner · (Other Fiction: Novel)
Rating: PG-13 Deaths of characters, discussion of religious and
political fanaticism, violence
First Choice Category Genres: Action/Adventure
Story's URL: http://storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3931
Story Summary: A tale of two visits to Harad.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 419 · "Love Me Now, Forever" by iorhael · (Other Fiction:
Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1085&cid=4277
Story Summary: From Bag Ends POV, as Frodo returned home and went to
the Undying Lands
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 272 · "Frodo: The Next Generation" by Gentle Hobbit · (Other
Fiction: Medium Length)
Rating: PG There are a couple of moments that might be disturbing for
children: a detailed description of an insertion of a needle, and one
also of mental distress.
First Choice Category Genres: Crossover
Story's URL: http://gentlehobbitfic.livejournal.com/633.html
Story Summary: An odd mission leaves Beverly Crusher with a true mystery
on her hands when she must take care of a most unusual patient. (Note:
Even though the story takes place within the Star Trek: The Next
Generation universe, it deals primarily with elements from LotR.)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 623 · "Desires Of The Hroa" by The Last Temptation of Homer ·
(Other Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: PG Some angst and themes not suitable for very young children
First Choice Category Genres: Drama (includes Angst)
Story's URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2935897/1/
Story Summary: A married elf ponders his forbidden love for another.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 619 · "On the Anduin" by Gentle Hobbit · (Other Fiction: Short
Story)
Rating: PG-13 There are descriptions of or references to painful
surgery carried out on the main character. Some may find this disturbing.
First Choice Category Races: Hobbits
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?SID=4704&CID=18752
Story Summary: This is an AU fic in which Frodo does not have Bilbo's
mithril vest with him during the Quest. When an orc arrow finds its
target, both Frodo and Pippin must explore the meaning of courage, and
what role fear plays therein.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Story ID: 159 · "Demand and You Shall Receive" by grey_wonderer · (Other
Fiction: Short Story)
Rating: G
First Choice Category Genres: Humor
Story's URL: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=2364&cid=17845
Story Summary: A visit to Buckland gives Frodo a chance to learn a thing
or two about dealing with small children.
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