oh god
Naturally the first Tolkienfic I write in ten years is a canon divergent AU where I'm basically rewriting the events of the Lord of the Rings and my excuse for everything that happens is "Wizard business!"
NATURALLY.
My excuse is wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey and the generally fucking with time and space and the Ainulindale, because the Valar give Gandalf a chance to change the events of the Battle of the Five Armies and he doesn't have to but he does because he wants to see good triumph and live it. So a bunch of doors get shut, a bunch of doors open up, and time folds in on itself so that I have an excuse for Frodo being present when Gandalf identifies Bilbo's magic ring as the One Ring much, much earlier than in the actual canon.
BECAUSE CANON DIVERGENT AU. THE THING THAT GIVES ME LIFE.
Now to wash myself of the mental stigma I attached to my writing Tolkienfic, because I wrote some pretty terrible Tolkienfic back in the day and I swore off ever writing Tolkienfic again but then The Hobbit movies happened and I couldn't stop seeing the Thilbo Bagginshield fuck a duck and all that jazz goddamn it I have no one to blame but myself.
NATURALLY.
My excuse is wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey and the generally fucking with time and space and the Ainulindale, because the Valar give Gandalf a chance to change the events of the Battle of the Five Armies and he doesn't have to but he does because he wants to see good triumph and live it. So a bunch of doors get shut, a bunch of doors open up, and time folds in on itself so that I have an excuse for Frodo being present when Gandalf identifies Bilbo's magic ring as the One Ring much, much earlier than in the actual canon.
BECAUSE CANON DIVERGENT AU. THE THING THAT GIVES ME LIFE.
Now to wash myself of the mental stigma I attached to my writing Tolkienfic, because I wrote some pretty terrible Tolkienfic back in the day and I swore off ever writing Tolkienfic again but then The Hobbit movies happened and I couldn't stop seeing the Thilbo Bagginshield fuck a duck and all that jazz goddamn it I have no one to blame but myself.