"Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? I don't know.
Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage."
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A peaceful place, in a peaceful era. Wooden green doors set into rolling green hills for miles and miles, healthy trees that shoot up from the ground and flower into showers of vibrant leaves, meadows of wildflowers, fields of vegetables and fruit and wheat and all sorts of things that grow and will eventually do nicely in a stew or an oven. The sound of children laughing, children playing, children squealing as they're scooped up into the arms of loving parents. This is the Shire in the Fourth Age. The year is 1464 SR (46 years after the Fellowship of the Ring).
Most Elves (plus a certain Wizard and a few select Hobbits) have sailed West, never to return to Middle-Earth. But they have left it knowing that it is safe from the threat of Sauron, and that an age of peace is upon them all.
Still, this does not mean there is no more fun to be had, no more paths to tread, no more adventures or journeys or stories to tell.
For several Hobbits of notable lineage (the brave and loyal Gamgees, Tooks and Brandybucks, along with the detestable Sackville-Bagginses) have children, and everyone knows that anyone even remotely related to a Took is bound to get their hairy little feet into trouble at one point or another.
These young Hobbits have grown up together as cousins of sorts, close friends (or perhaps rivals); there are of course, the sensible ones who try to keep the others in check, and then there are...the more mischievous ones who drag their cousins and friends into all sorts of trouble, stealing fireworks and pies and making secret fortresses among the trees. What they don't realize is that amidst all their sunny mischief, they are about to stumble across a letter that will change their lives:
A letter signed, Gandalf the White.
((Details of the plot will be elaborated on in the Discussion Thread))
