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Celebrian inherited her mother’s temper, her father’s unending patience, and a quite frankly worrying amount of loyalty that Galadriel suspects comes from Finwe because it most closely resembles the sons of Feanor.
If several of the noldor who had more...vocal opinions on Elrond’s heritage/capacity to rule/continued survival just happened to get assigned to more deadly patrols, or have inconvenient non-lethal accidents that stopped them from performing their duties, well. It’s not like Gil-Galad was going to stop her.
Sauron's second age elf ratings
Gil-galad: dislikes meeting new people, crispy 3/10
Círdan: too overprotective 2/10
Elrond: always late, too good at hiding. Interesting nephews -1/10
Celebrimbor: very kind, good for hugs, smart, nice eyes, good with his hands More stubborn than Melkor, doesn't know what's good for him, good motivational banner 9/10
Galadriel: FUCK NO -1000000/10
Celeborn: bad taste in robes 1/10
Celebrian: hugger 2/10
Glorfindel: .....not this one again. Bleh. Bad hair. -10/10
Oropher: hasty, good at arguing, argued to much with Celebrimbor 7/10
Thranduil: annoys Celebrimbor -6/10
Maglor: wanders too much, STAY STILL 1/10
Elrond and Lisa Tepes would absolutely be best friends if they ever meet but Celebrian and Dracula would hate each other on sight.
Elrond and Lisa would be happily discussing the cardiovascular system and Celebrian and Dracula would be glaring daggers at each other, just waiting for an excuse to throw hands.
Elrond and Lisa Tepes would absolutely be best friends if they ever meet but Celebrian and Dracula would hate each other on sight.
Elrond and Lisa would be happily discussing the cardiovascular system and Celebrian and Dracula would be glaring daggers at each other, just waiting for an excuse to throw hands.
Lullaby for Celebrian (2017)
Very quick sketch of Celebrian and Elrond to remind myself what it's like to draw with real pencil on real paper 😅
"What are you doing here, Lord of Imladris, so late at night? Look at the stars!"
"I am looking, my lady!"
“-and it was then that Elrond first saw Celebrían, and loved her, though he said nothing of it”
Elladan & Elrohir | Arwen
when celebrian meets maglor she's openly furious with him and everyone assumes it's for a kinslaying/kidnapping related reason
except elrond, mortified, who knows it's because maglor made the mistake of teaching him the noldor equivalent of "the song that never ends" at age 8 as a way to annoy maedhros and elrond made the mistake of teaching it to his sons
you have not known suffering until you have experienced the world's most overexcited peredhil twins shout-singing at the top of their lungs at 3 AM refusing to go to bed
celebrian is willing to forgive a lot but some crimes are unforgivable
LotR Imladris Crew (+A few other people) Height Headcanons
I know Elrond is canonically 6'2, but it would be so much funnier if he was, like, 5'4.
(All headcanons) You have:
Gil-galad, 6'5
Maedhros, 7'6
Maglor, 6'6
Celebrian, 6'3 (Tall girlboss short malewife who is also a girlboss)
Elladan and Elrohir who are both 6'4
Legolas, 5'11
Thranduil, 6'3
Glorfindel, 5'6 (My height)
Erestor: 5'10 (Very bitter about being shorter than the twins, possibly very happy about being taller than Glorfindel)
Aragorn, 6'1
Lindir, 5'9 (My mom's height, shocked every time he realizes that he's taller than Glorfindel)
Elros, 5'8
She dominates him
Friendly reminder to the RoP fans who don't know the original lore:
Valandil is Isildur's son (But let's be honest, he was more raised by Elrond)
Galadriel is older than the sun
Elven men canonically have long hair
Elrond was found by Maedhros and Maglor and also is not, in fact, an orphan, his mom is a bird and his dad is a star and they may or may not be divorced
Isildur, Ar-Pharazon, Miriel, Valandil, and almost all of the rest of Gondor and Numenor's royals are Elrond's nieces and nephews.
Galadriel has a husband and a daughter
A daughter who IS MARRIED TO ELROND
Gondolin
In Valinor, one year is a century long. 20 years to an elf is only about three months to a human.
A Durin would not be the son of another Durin
None of these events happen anywhere near one another in the timeline
Galadriel sees right through Sauron instantly, she does not fall in love with him
Nor does she fall in love with Elrond, as he is her son-in-law and also her therapist
And finally, a reminder to the Tolkein purists:
PEOPLE CAN BE BLACK.
Elves can, and in fact, probably were, people of color. Only the Noldor were probably ever genuinely white. The Sindar, the Vanyar, the Falmari, all of them were probably various POC.
In the final version of the canon, dwarf women having beards was uncertain, and even if it was 100% sure that the group of dwarves we know had women with beards, Disa is clearly a different ethnicity, and possibly a different culture, so it is entirely possible that she would not have a beard.
Arondir was a prisoner, and elven prisoners likely had their hair cut to insult or disgrace them, so it is entirely possible that he would have short hair at the time he is shown.
Elrond, Disa and Durin are cute. It does not matter that they aren't canon. People can like these characters. I liked several of them myself, though I found some quite flat and one-dimensional.
As long as you aren't hurting anybody, discriminating against anybody, or erasing someone else's hard work (ahem, Tolkein's elvish language and customs) you can do whatever you want. Hell, I kinda want to ship Disa and Celebrian. I'm not hurting anyone, so I can do just that! (Amazon, however, is hurting people. Know that before you go into this.)
Tolkien's characters: *minding their own buisness* Me, holding the Trans Hammer: *ba na, ba na, ba na, ba na, terrible Jaws theme continues*
A Young King Rises
Part 9 of The Birth of a King series is out.
Read it now on AO3
I wonder how long it took them to find Celebrían.
So either she went by herself, which is implied, or Elrond sent a few guards with her, or she travelled with some of Galadriel's people that came over specifically to escort her to Lothlórien. Was the trip planned in advance? Was it a regular thing, that she went to Lothlórien once every few years to see her parents? Did she take Arwen or the twins with her occasionally? Obviously not this time, otherwise they would have been "waylaid" too. If anyone else was with her they would have been killed, no doubt, and the only reason Celebrían herself survived her "poisoned wound" and whatever else the orcs did to her was because of whatever high-elf ancestry light-of-the-two-trees Daughter of Galadriel inner powers she had going on.
So it took the Fellowship approximately two months to get to Lothlórien from Rivendell, but that's accounting for their massive detour through Moria. Celebrían took the Redhorn Pass (side headcanon: the Redhorn Pass became impassable only after this incident), and because she was an elf and (presumably) by herself we can knock off about a month, if she was on a horse.
So in the Appendices Celebrían is referred to as Daughter of Celeborn, not Daughter of Galadriel, which seems more likely given Galadriel's importance in the Lord of the Rings and the history of Middle-Earth in general. That leads me to assume that Celebrían took after her father way more than her mother - it's likely she couldn't mind speak to the same extent, perhaps she didn't even have the same level of Foresight.
Assuming she would have sent Elrond a letter the moment she was in Lothlórien, and Elrond was expecting this, it would have taken maybe a week or two or maybe another month more for Elrond to think something was wrong - maybe she was delayed somehow, by weather etc, maybe the letter was lost on the way, whatever. If her parents were expecting her, it would have taken them equally long to suspect something was wrong.
So then I'm guessing Elrond mind-spoke with Galadriel if he hadn't done so before to ask if Celebrían had arrived, maybe Galadriel saw something in her mirror and alerted Elrond the same way, whatever. Then finally, after about two months to my reckoning - the 24 hours you wait to file a missing persons report converted to Elf conceptions of time - Elrond sent out the search parties.
(By the way, if her horse somehow survived and found its way back to Rivendell, it would have taken a similar time).
Anyway, if it took her approx. 3 weeks (3/4 of the way from Rivendell to Lothlórien) to get to the Redhorn Pass, it took the rescuers the same amount of time - less if they were in a hurry, but they also had to physically look for her. Then they had to bring her back to Rivendell, and I read somewhere (maybe a fanfic, don't quote me on this) that it was the twins that found her - traumatic enough, but imagine travelling home for a few weeks with your half-dead mother beside you on your horse.
Maybe the eagles helped. Idk.
In conclusion, I believe Celebrían was lying poisoned and half-dead from torture in a cave (presumably without food or water) for at least two or three months before she was found and taken back to Rivendell.
This whole scenario is based on the assumption that nobody saw the attack coming, which, unlikely as it seems, must have been the case as there is no way either Elrond or her parents would have let her travel (alone or otherwise) if this outcome was an option.
This is my Roman Empire.
Elrond x Celebrían #13 pls! ✨
AN: Ayyy it's Celrond, long time no see! This was a fun one and about time I worked some more on my Celebrían characterization, hope you enjoy it too :D
Prompt: Kissing discreetly (prompt list here) Pairing: Elrond x Celebrían Warnings: /
"If you would excuse us, my lady and my lord, I would like to discuss something with Lady Celebrían in private."
Elrond, usually calm and confident, felt his cheeks flush under Celeborn's surprised and Galadriel's amused gaze — he suspected that she had already guessed what was going on and would inform her husband once they were gone.
"But of course," Galadriel said with a knowing smile. "Please take your time, you two."
Celebrían was by his side within a split second, grabbing his arm and pulling him along. "Let us take a walk."
"O-of course." No one was more eager than Elrond to be out of sight and earshot; not that he would ever even think of doing or saying anything inappropriate to the beautiful, charming Lady Celebrían, but he preferred to express their budding affection in private.
Arm in arm, soon hand in hand, they walked down a hallway, down a small flight of stairs, into the garden and behind the nearest bush. Before Elrond had even made up his mind — should he take a moment to bow and kiss her hand, should he skip formalities and hold her close, should he perhaps dare to risk a kiss — Celebrían beat him to it. She turned, swiftly and gracefully, first pecking his cheek and then, when he looked at her in surprise, his lips.
"I have been looking forward to you whisking me away from the crowd," she confessed.
"Then I am glad." Elrond returned the gesture, cupping her cheeks with both hands and allowing his lips to linger for just a moment. "I wondered if it would be awfully rude of me to take up the most beautiful lady's time."
Celebrían laughed. "Even if it is, I shan't be concerned with it. If I laugh tonight, it will be with you, and if I dance tonight, it will be with you under the stars."
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