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Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Celebrimbor & Sauron (Tolkien), Annatar/Celebrimbor (Tolkien), Celebrimbor & Elrond Peredhel, Celebrimbor & Galadriel (Tolkien) Characters: Celebrimbor (Tolkien), Sauron (Tolkien), Elrond Peredhel, Galadriel (Tolkien), Celeborn (Tolkien), Celebrían (Tolkien), Ereinion Gil-galad Additional Tags: Body Horror, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Implied/Referenced Torture, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Celebrimbor Lives (Tolkien) Summary:
When he woke in his chains, he was glowing. Under the dark streaks of dried blood, light was leaking through his skin. He looked like he’d swallowed a star.
Annatar was standing in front of him, some feet away, his head slightly tilted.
Sauron, not Annatar. Celebrimbor had to remember that, even though it was Annatar studying him; Annatar’s curving mouth and cool eyes –
He wondered, for a moment, what fresh torment the light was meant to be; and then, with a sick awareness, he felt it like black breath on his soul, and he cried out, “What have you done?”
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Sauron works a finer torture in the ruins of Eregion, and Celebrimbor survives it. The world twists.














