A story that was recomended here a while back: Set at the beginning of The Hobbit, but Bilbo actually has a few years of adventuring experience and possibly has been taking lessons from Tom Bombadil. The Shire has been reimagined along the lines of a village of D&D halflings, i.e. they look like harmless simple country folk on the surface but turn out to have a bunch of steath-and-trickery badasses among them if you make trouble. Gandalf and the Dwarves are caught completely flatfooted by all this.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.