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I sʜᴀᴘᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ Mɪᴅᴅʟᴇ-ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ. I ᴄʀᴀғᴛᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Rɪɴɢs ᴏғ Pᴏᴡᴇʀ.

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logged into this account to reclaim my .co.vu url for my new blog, so I might as well go ahead and post that I’VE MOVED HERE ! see you on the other side friends!

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     ❝  ere you rest… what is it this time, the      object your hands crave to craft? ❞

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     'I want to capture...' A brief hesitation. '----starlight       in some kind of vessel. Not a gem, though.'

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I'm writing this letter to inform you that Curufinwe Atarincë has fallen. Maedhros. //meme//

The letter comes in the wake of the news of Doriath’s fall.

Celebrimbor does nothing to pronounce his lineage, certainly, but his origins have hardly been a secret. There are enough eyes on him as the scroll is placed into his hands to make him profoundly uncomfortable, and he hastily excuses himself, knowing this is not a message to be read in public. He’s sure some will demand it—news of the kinslaying must be news for them all, in the end. But it is not addressed to everyone. 

There cannot be many reasons why Maedhros Fëanorion would write to his estranged nephew. There is nothing that Celebrimbor can give him; he has nothing to his name these days except what he makes with his hands, and those things are of only trivial value, pretty as they may be. 

(His hands, incidentally, shake slightly as he unfolds the letter.) 

Curufinwë Atarincë has fallen 

Not, Celebrimbor notes absently, grasping at what is surely an unimportant detail, your father has fallen, as might be more personal and befitting. 

His eyes skim the rest of the page, but the details fill themselves in in his mind. The sons of Fëanor attacked Doriath, and lost one of their own. Did they reach their goal, at least? Celebrimbor’s heart twists—he cannot say whether he wants that or not. The letter does not say, however. Maedhros might be too diplomatic to state it regardless of the outcome… 

It’s when Celebrimbor tries to take a breath that he notices how his throat has closed up, and his eyes blur, dark spots obscuring the paper in front of him. Curufin is dead. Curufin is dead and therefore they cannot make amends between them, and where is his father’s soul bound? To join Fëanor’s, presumably (hopefully?), wherever that might be. 

He doesn’t hear it when the letter drops to the ground, sliding from unresponsive hands. A voice—he thinks it is his own mind—reminds him that Curufin is not his father, and it would not be remiss to receive this news with something akin to relief at the loss of a traitor, the man who had once been such a great anxiety to him.

This changes little; he will see no less of him than he otherwise intended to. 

(It has been years since he last cried, and he’ll deny that it is his reaction now, but his face ends up in his empty hands.) 

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||Your muse is a complex, multifaceted Celebrimbor, flawed and fallible but sharp-witted and focused -- in short, he feels real, and you should be proud of him. :)

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".....has died." finish it in my ask.

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That’s a nice otp you got there 

it’d be a shame if one WAS BRUTALLY EXECUTED IN FRONT OF THE OTHER

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//Concerning Celebrimbor I always saw him as someone who was, at the very least, trained to lead a certain amount of people and, immediately after the majority of his father’s and uncle’s people stayed in Nargothrond, became a leader of sort, neither the king nor the ultimate leader, but nonetheless a figure that held some power.

As for Ereinion and Galadriel, Ereinion did send some ships (I remember that at least), but they were late and I interpret this lateness as him not wanting to get involved but, at the same time, being unwilling to condone the Fëanorioni’s actions and showing them he would not be unreactive. I have this headcanon of him being still uncertain as a king and relying heavily on Fingon’s people who took refuge on the island. So, basically neither him (and his people) nor the Fëanorians (and theirs) wanted to fight against each other so he intervened only at the last possible moment when the mission would be one of helping/rescuing the survivors of the Havens and making the Fëanorians’ troops retreat faster. Concerning Galadriel I see her as someone who never really had a chance to inherit the crown of High King in the first place, mainly because of her own actions and choices. First of all there is the matter of a female ruler, which the Noldor do not seem to have ever had and in a society of people who live eternally I think a conservative mentality of sort would likely develop; besides she married Celeborn, a lord from Doriath so those who would support her would be even less. Besides she fought against the Noldor in Alqualondë and even though that might have seemed morally right to historians twoages afterward I think it didn’t gain her any friends or allies among any of the hosts which arrived in Middle Earth. I see her decision to dwell in Doriath as a direct consequence of that and a further cause for the Noldor not to see her as ‘one of them’, since she lived among the Sindar in a sealed-off realm and played little to no part in their struggle against Morgoth and I do not see the Noldor as a people who would gladly accept a ruler that, in their minds, considers him/herself mainly a Teler.  A further proof of this might be the fact that Celeborn and she are not accepted as rulers of Ost-in-Edhil, since I see Sauron being only partially responsible for their loss of power. My opinion is that Annular played upon an ancient resentment the Noldo still harboured for her. But I like the idea of Galadriel making Ereinion sweat for the crown!  

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|| I usually interpret the ships being sent on Ereinion's behalf, because he should still be fairly young at that point, and even if he was technically an adult I'm not sure he'd be wholly up to the point of making his own decisions as a High King just yet (though we're not given his exact age, and most of my crack headcanons for his parentage would actually support him being pretty old, now that I think about it.) It's interesting though, because I'd say he's successful because there aren't any of Fingon's people at Balar--I can't picture any substantial number of them escaping Hithlum after it's overrun (I think canon has a huge number of them being enslaved, in fact) except for the ones who escaped to Gondolin, and they'd be serving Turgon's people... hmm, but I suppose there's the issue of who is leading them. Tuor and Idril at first, but then they leave, and I guess it passes to Eärendil at that point? But he doesn't give the vibe of being a very involved leader, nor does Elwing. What I was going to say, though, is that without Fingon's people around, the rumour that he's Fingon's child can gain a  lot more traction if no one knows well enough to disagree (and I guess that's my particular headcanon, that he lied about who's child he was to gain support, which isn't necessarily a bad thing--he was a good king in the end so it's all good). 

Poor Galadriel though, I agree there--and that's one thing I can't stand, when people say they love Fingon but hate her. They're working with a lot of the same motivations and goals, but one of them is dealing with in-universe sexism as a monumental roadblock. Isn't there a version of canon, though, where she doesn't fight at Alqualondë? Because that's one I selectively adhere to, mostly because it doesn't make much logistic sense for her to be present when the fighting is happening (though I'd love to read someone's explanation of that, if it exists!). Anyway, in the version where she's not fighting, it'd be more reasonable for her to have a small but vocal group championing her cause above child-king-Ereinion, who has a weak claim and questionable parentage. 

Also I'd say her removal in Eregion isn't so much to do with her being disapproved of, and it's more that Celebrimbor the craftsman was more in line with the "image" they wanted to put forth. Sis support of Annatar is probably what put him further ahead of her--the rest of the Gwaith-i-Mirdain wanted to keep him, and they couldn't if Galadriel was distrustful. I do happen to see the population of Eregion as being younger, Second Age-born people at this point though, which would also limit the amount of previous prejudices at play. Certainly no one is too bothered about Celebrimbor being Fëanorian (except for Oropher, it seems), so I don't know they'd be mad at her for her past!

Interesting, at any rate--there's so many different versions of canon at work here that pretty much anything makes sense (which is something I tend to forget, I think 8))

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cyrefinn

If there is a way to comfortably ride a horse, Celebrimbor has not yet discovered it. Even his back is sore from trying to maintain an upright pose--and his hands feel sweaty under his riding gloves. "Is it truly necessary," he calls towards his father, "for us to settle so far away? We were in Mithrim first." 

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earendilion

If he looked very closely, he could see their resemblance; Elrond had a touch of the blood of Finwë in him, though Celebrimbor would not presume to think that the herald would be proud of that. Still--they were cousins, albeit distantly, and arguably by more than blood, though again he'd forego the presumptions. "I know who you are," the smith interrupted, raising his chin. "We met once, very briefly. You were only a child."

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Headcanon: The third Kinslaying

I usually go by this head canon, but, if you wish to use another one in a R.P. message me and we’ll find an agreement.

Maedhros made many efforts to avoid the third kinslaying for a number of different reasons. Beside the ever-present possibility of loosing his remaining three brothers to the battle and the obvious moral implications of entering yet another conflict with fellow Quendi during a time in which Beleriand was falling to pieces and his soldiers’ time would be better spent protecting his people, he had a few more pragmatic reasons.

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|| Very on-board with the idea that Celebrimbor would 'adopt' all the Fëanorian deserters from the Kinslayings--he'd be wary, but they'd essentially be making the same choice he did. He would be surprised, I think, at the sudden rise to leadership, but not disappointed or even unprepared (and I think that was partly from Galadriel's influence, because I imagine it was around this time that they met up with one another again and started discussing their ambitions). 

(Also wondering if there wasn't a lot of debate regarding High King Ereinion going on at this time, and whether or not Galadriel was a better claimant to the title--could explain the lack of intervention from Balar during the attack on Sirion, since he doesn't really seem to ascend in any great capacity until after the War of Wrath.)

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melkorsrighthand

   It was late in the afternoon, and sunlight was streaming through the open windows and onto the array of books in front of Celebrimbor. They were reference volumes, heavily illustrated, and he lazily flicked through the pages of one while his sketchbook and charcoals lay next to him. "The new apprentices," he stated, glancing up at the figure across the room, "are eager to meet you. Some are expressing a desire to learn magic--but my mírdain have thus far been sensible enough to tell them no." 

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Celebrimbor　　

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Saruman’s book.

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// I love your Tyelperinquar. I debated for so long before going ahead and making Curufin, because I was so iffy about the father/son relationship thing, but we had no trouble jumping straight into it -- which is saying something! Keep up the awesome work and, selfishly, I hope to see more from you on this account in times to come!

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|| You mean your Tyelpe is not a whiny poor boy with a crush on the bad guy? Not an incompetent without ambitions? Not just a cute baby? Well, sounds pretty /perfect/ to me.

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