This is an great request and I don't feel like I've done it justice at all, but I do mean to finish all of these in the next few days rather than let them drag on the way I usually do, so here's a drabble:
The Shire was to be left in peace, with the Travellers there to keep watch, but once they disappeared it was war. The winter of 1420 was bad, 1420 far worse, and by now there is no Shire, only the mark on the map of where it was, a few burnt marks on the land where hobbits are no more.
And Frodo thinks how it all could have been different, how the choice was in his hands and he let it go. At night Aragorn tells him there's still hope, but Frodo hasn't believed in a very long time.
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The Shire was to be left in peace, with the Travellers there to keep watch, but once they disappeared it was war. The winter of 1420 was bad, 1420 far worse, and by now there is no Shire, only the mark on the map of where it was, a few burnt marks on the land where hobbits are no more.
And Frodo thinks how it all could have been different, how the choice was in his hands and he let it go. At night Aragorn tells him there's still hope, but Frodo hasn't believed in a very long time.