5 + celebrimbor or gil-galad? :o
Hello thank you for the ask! Although I was meant to answer every number on the post for the ask I just went with what you asked for and it got a uh little long.
Also my dumb ass read Maeglin instead of Gil-Galad for some reason so you get all three of them now lol
5. first headcanon that pops into my head
Gil-Galad finds the whole "who is your father" question terribly amusing, to a point where he purposefully doesn't even try to help to find an answer for the question anymore.
As a child he wanted to know, he craved for it more than anything else but neither Cirdan nor anyone else would tell him who his parents were.
They probably didn't know either since he was brought to them as a baby by a dying man in Nolofinwean blue, who only got to tell them to protect him before he died. Baby Ereinion was also dressed in Nolofinwean blue and that's where the assumption came from that he might be the son of Fingon or any other Nolofinwean relative but he could have been the son of that man as well for all they knew. They just assumed it was the former because that would make it more convenient for political reasons or something.
The rumour that he might be Orodreth's son was set into motion by Finarfin himself by the way who commented during a meeting that Gil-Galad's eyes look very much like his grandson's I.e. Orodreth's.
As an adult he very much doesn't care anymore if his father is really a king or just a servant or if his claim to the throne is rightful or not. Elrond has made very clear that he doesn't want to be king and Galadriel even said that he did his job better than the majority of his predecessors, so why change?
Besides watching scholars getting frustrated over this minor detail is hilarious to watch.
Maeglin has a really and I mean REALLY weird relationship with food... for normal elvish standards anyways.
Growing up in Nan Elmoth there was not a whole lot of stuff you could eat because most plants were either poisonous or would make you high immediately, the water was undrinkable unless it was boiled first and don't you dare pick any of the mushrooms. Ever.
So the things they could eat were few and rare. There were sometimes people from Doriath at the border who would trade food with Eol in exchange for his craft and while visiting the dwarves Maeglin got into contact with his first ever grand meal with meat and cheese and everything he could ever dream of and he probably ate himself sick more than once.
In Gondolin however meat and cheese and bread weren't a rarity, he could eat soft white bread with berry jam practically every day for breakfast and it would never have an end and he had a very hard time realising this. At first he would eat as much as he could in record time (which made Turgon believe that the boy had been starving for his entire life and this gave him some unfriendly flashbacks to the ice) and he would always super surprised and a but weirded out when people just handed him food on the streets. Like ma'am. That's a piece of the best cheese he has ever tasted and you just handed it to him! On the street! Don't... don't you need that for yourself?!
Food for Maeglin is something very special and very precious and the better and more tastier the food is the more special it is for him. If it weren't for his status and the dinners his uncle invites him to regularly he would probably live off of bread and water and be happy about that because the bread isn't stale and the water doesn't need to be cooked to be drinkable.
Celebrimbor doesn't remember Aman or anything related to Aman for that matter. He wasn't a baby or toddler anymore when they left, he was a young teenager who had already started his apprenticeship under his grandfather's tutelage and he knows that he should remember Aman, he should remember the light of the trees, his parent's home, his great-grandfather's stories and songs, the evenings they spend as a family in front of the fireplace but he doesn't he really doesn't.
It wouldn't bother him if the light in his eyes wasn't proof of the time he was born in, the life he had lived and forgotten, if there wasn't that unspoken question in the eyes of those he meets.
It is especially hard when he meets his mother's father, his maternal grandfather, again for the first time during the War of Wrath and just... Doesn't remember a single damn thing about him. And his mother is so excited to see her father again, she is crying tears of joy and is the happiest she has been in nearly 500 years but Celebrimbor, he just looks at this man, who according to his parents was the first one he walked towards on his own two legs, and feels a absolutely nothing. Although he knows, he knows he should. The same thing goes for Finarfin and whatever Noldorin relatives came with him.
Even after he is reborn those early memories doesn't return even though everything else does eventually. He tries his best to rebuild those relationships though and to find the love he held for those people at one point again.
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