Title: Endurance Beyond Hope
Author: Bill the Pony
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Expectations clash with reality when Sam arrives in Valinor sixty years after Frodo's departure from Middle Earth. WORK IN PROGRESS

Comments: This is a WIP, but don't let that put you off, because our lads get over a pretty major hurdle right before it cuts off, and it's easy enough to read it as an ending. This is, quite simply, the best Tol Eressëa fic out there. Usually, Sam steps off the boat and it's as though they were only parted yesterday, and lovely though that is in its way, this feels more real, more like a story worth telling as opposed to something borne of a need to fill the chasm that the ending of LotR leaves open. I sincerely hope that this is finished one day, but even in its current state it stands among the best that Frodo/Sam has to offer.

[Note: technically, this is not a "first time" fic, but I have labelled it as such because, well, it might as well be]