Volume 128/Issue 1
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Hobbit Video: "Song for Adam" (Bilbo, Thorin; NC-17) by maidavids
Survival of the Fittest - Ten Years On (Part 6/8; Sean/Orlando, Viggo Mortensen, Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, Richard Armitage, Dean O'Gorman, various dwarf actors; PG-13) by blueskydancers
Hobbit Video: "From Silver Lake" (Tauriel/Kili; PG-13) by maidavids
Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 24 (Thorin/Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas; No Rating) by mithen
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Friday, Mar. 27 through Thursday, April 2 inclusive.
Touching by alex_quine
(Aragorn/Boromir; R; Double drabble. Boromir knows that you measure horses in 'hands' and yet...)
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~ Unsung Heroes
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• Tuesday's MOVIE question: Who insists that the care of women and children at Helm's Deep is "an honorable charge"?
Answer: Aragorn.
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• Today's BOOK question from
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