Chapters: 39/39
Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Primula Brandybuck, Dís, Thorin's Company, Gandalf (Tolkien), Thranduil (Tolkien), Legolas Greenleaf, Tauriel (Hobbit Movies), Bard the Bowman, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Female Bilbo Baggins, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Adventure & Romance, Hobbit Culture & Customs, Dwarf Culture & Customs, Dwarf Courting, Unplanned Pregnancy, Miscommunication, Angst with a Happy Ending, First Love, Pre-Canon, Mostly Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, falling in love with a travelling blacksmith, then getting into fights with a displaced king Summary:
Briar Baggins was a disappointment to those in the Shire who once expected that she would become someone exceptional. She was difficult to coax from her study, often withdrawing into books about lands far beyond their green, rolling hills.
It came as a surprise when Briar accepted an invitation from her cousin to visit Bucklebury, and returned some time later with a baby in her arms. A baby that malicious gossips insisted had been seen wearing tiny socks, of all things!
No doubt things would settle down again after that bit of excitement.
A proper gentlehobbit would not chase after adventure well into her middle age, after all.
