Discovering Mr Baggins (смешанная)

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As you may have guessed from the summary, this story is heavily based on the book (with some elements from the first movie mixed in). Before you hit the back button, because you are sick and tired of reading the Troll Scene for the hundreth time, let me assure you that this is not a verbatim retelling of the book.
When I was re-reading The Hobbit in spring, I noticed that Mr Tolkien tends to skip over a lot of stuff. He takes great care describing the exciting action and the countryside, but not much attention is paid to the relationships among the companions. There are long stretches of time that get swept away with just a few sentences. The beginning is basically: “They rode for a month, nobody spoke to Bilbo much.” and “They spent two weeks in Rivendell. It was nice.” So it got me wondering: what happens in the times that he doesn’t describe?
This is a “behind the scenes” fic. I’m not really rewriting the book, just filling in the blanks that Mr Tolkien left and adding a little slashy embellishment of my own. Most of the story stays true to the original, but I took the liberty to change a few things to suit my needs.
Disclaimer: None of this belongs to me. I’m just borrowing the characters to play around with them.
ETA: This story now has Fanart! The wonderful Nazgullow over at DA has drawn lovely illustrations for each chapter of this story. I will post a link to each corresponding picture in the chapters, but you can find the whole gallery here