Project File: Arnica and Apple Blossoms – SOABA
It is only once the Ring has been destroyed that Bilbo realizes why he never Faded following his beloved husband’s death, though no other Hobbit ever survived the loss of their One. Its dark power kept Bilbo alive for over eighty years, despite his ever-present grief, and only once it and its fell maker were unmade was the harshest aspect of the nature of Green Magic able to assert itself. As he slowly withers away like a bed of neglected flowers in Rivendell, Yavanna Kementári approaches him with an offer – the singular chance to change the fate of all of Arda and save his Dwarrow in the process.