Post-canon AU stories are stories in which the quest ends differently than in Tolkien’s original version. Most of the time, this means that [Spoiler (click to open)]Thorin, Fili and Kili surive and Erebor doesn’t fall into Dain’s hands. There are quite a lot of different terms for this sort of story (BoFA AUs, fix-it Aus, canon-divergent stories) but I prefer this one ( Read more... )