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Your Own Faithful Land (9469 words) by 61Below
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins & Frodo Baggins
Characters: Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, Drogo Baggins, Primula Baggins, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Lotho Sackville-Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield
Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Letters, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Dwarves in the Shire, POV Outsider, The Ravens of Erebor, Families of Choice

Summary:

Uncle Bilbo lived Very Far Away, so he never stopped by for tea, and he missed the fireworks Gandalf lit off at the Lithe. It was too unfair. Instead, Frodo had to content himself with the letters and the wonderful stories that Uncle Bilbo would write to him.

A lovely story about a bright and curious hobbit child who gets adopted by a proud, cantankerous, and secretly quite sweet raven, about an uncle who lives far, far away, but sends the most wonderful letters and presents, and about grief, comfort, and choosing your own family.

Makes an excellent use of letters without exactly being an epistolary, and balances warmth, humour and bittersweetness in an effortless, uplifting way that never grows old for me.

Recommended for a gentle and comforting (re)read.