It's a full life, if a trifle banal

My never-ending work in progress, a Tolkien AU fanfic called Withered Tree, was completed in a burst of inspiration over the weekend and the start of this week. I have been writing it since June 2003.

Those of you who have kindly commented on drafts in locked entries may like to start again from the beginning: the foreword is new and integral (as is the appendix), and there have been various changes for style throughout. It is about 16,400 words.

Please let me know if any of the links don't work.

Foreword
Prologue: Concerning Hobbits
Chapter I: Hands of a Healer
Chapter II: The Mind and Its Policies
Chapter III: Falls the Shadow
Chapter IV: The Next Debate
Chapter V: Treason and Plot
Chapter VI: Lost Souls
Epilogue: This is the Way
Appendix A: The Sources

WITHERED TREE

A penny for the Old Guy...

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream:
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.

Julius Caesar, II, i

( Foreword )

Prologue: Concerning Hobbits
Chapter I: Hands of a Healer
Chapter II: The Mind and Its Policies
Chapter III: Falls the Shadow
Chapter IV: The Next Debate
Chapter V: Treason and Plot
Chapter VI: Lost Souls
Epilogue: This is the Way
Appendix A: The Sources