Title: The Music of the Thing as it Happens
Author: Achillea Millefolium
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Dawn in Ithilien is beautiful beyond imagining.The memory of it stays with Sam well into the hot summer of 1420.

Comments: The author has a real gift for making the most heart-wrenching angst elegant and not the least bit trite. This piece is short and wonderfully crafted, and makes you ache for a Sam who doesn't understand.

Title: The Night Season
Author: Achillea Millefolium
Rating: NC-17
Summary: A few years after Bilbo's departure, Sam and Frodo find themselves locked in a strange, silent situation that neither of them really knows how to handle.

Comments: This is one of the classics of the pairing: dark and angsty but told in such a gorgeous, delicate way.