#celeborn

[conundrumoftime]

"NO DWARVES IN MY FOREST 😡"

"Your wife is hot."

"...THIS ONE DWARF WITH IMPECCABLE TASTE CAN STAY"

[mooflat]

I’m getting back into Andy Serkis’s audiobook of Lord of the Ring and the fellowship just reached Lothlorien.

Celeborn sees Aragorn and says, “Eight and thirty years have passed in the outside world since last you were here, and the years lie heavily upon you.”

Imagine losing Gandalf, getting out of Moria, escaping the orcs, and finding safety just for your fiancé’s family to be like, “You’re aging TERRIBLY.”

[eliounora]

young celeborn and galadriel 🖤

[balrogballs]

CELEBORN OF DORIATH

Delighted to share one of the two Celeborn commissions I’ve been working on this batch! The commissioner for this one wanted me to show him as young-ish, definitely whilst he was still living in Doriath, and I quote ‘the kind of elf that would make a Noldo princess’ jaw hit the floor’, and I was only too happy to oblige.

Anyway, if I was walking around in Lothlorien and this guy turns up and goes ‘where is Gandalf for I would much like to speak with him’, I would be telling him to hold on for five minutes, before hopping onto ebay and typing in ‘fake beard’, ‘pointy wizard hat’ and ‘morning after pill’.

commission info here: also just a quick announcement that once my remaining August slots fill out, I’ll be closing my queue for new orders until late November or early December, as I’ll be working on a couple of other projects later this year + am also getting m*rried in Sept. which is to say, get in quick if you want your hot elf drawn, etc etc. also another note since a couple of people have asked: if your bank doesn’t let you use kofi just hmu for my paypal.me link, i just don’t publicise it because it has my government name etc.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

entranced by a celeborn who stayed on in middle-earth not just to watch over and support arwen, but because immediately upon getting wise to his granddaughter’s engagement he went “oho. a baby” and started making galadriel scry into minas tirith so he could craft a mental map of all sharp corners that would need to be infant-proofed. eldarion is born and the rest of all dinner-table conversations for eternity is “grandpa you need to stop buying him sixteen [gondorian equivalent of a spongebob ice pop] every day” celeborn, hollow-voiced: “i survived the sack of eregion and the fall of beleriand and you do not wish me to Cherish My Great-Grandchild” while aragorn sits there spoon-feeding eldarion porridge like 😟

[abbots-dildo]

Galadriel and Celeborn in Doriath

I can't be the only one that thinks Celeborn is the Just Ken of the Tolkien Legendarium, right? Keneborn, anyone? No? I'll show myself out...

I still love them though. We love a wife guy that plays support while she shapes Middle Earth.

[nightmares-2]

Happy new year everyone!!!!

[mhevarujta]

I was discussing the other day that Galadriel and Celeborn are such a refreshing pair among Tolkien's ships.

You have Feanor being a wife-guy UNTIL Nerdanel disagress with him. Which is when he becomes awful to her.

Then you have marriages that work and endure: Thingol and Melian loved each other deeply until the end, and YET Thingol closed his ears to Melian's advice when his passion took the best of him. But this is not how it goes for Galadriel and Celeborn. When Galadriel talks Celeborn listens and even as his emotions threaten to overtake him, his trauma still apparent, he controls himself.

There are of course the unions of elves and men and Earendil's relationship with Elwing. All of these are loving, but ultimately the female character ends up following the male character.

Galadriel and Celeborn are different. Galadriel sets the path they follow most of the time. She precedes and Celeborn follows, sometimes immediately and sometimes following his own pace.

They are the only ship that epitomize the way Tolkien imagined an elven marriage in Morgoth's Ring:

The union of love is indeed to them great delight and joy, and the 'days of the children', as they call them, remain in their memory as the most merry in life; but they have many other powers of body and of mind which their nature urges them to fulfil. Thus, although the wedded remain so for ever, they do not necessarily dwell or house together at all times; for without considering the chances and separations of evil days, wife and husband, albeit united, remain persons individual having each gifts of mind and body that differ.

This all happens while Galadriel remains the most prominent and more powerful of the two. In Numenor, where women COULD have power and become queens, there are too often examples of men feeling threatened and trying to dominate and to supplant. But this is never the case when it comes to Galadriel and Celeborn.

They have it all: A beautiful love that endures, their days of happiness with Celebrian, trials and grief that they faced together, but they also followed their individual desires, each knowing that at the end of it all the other would be there; being aware that they would be reunited and their pursue of their needs would not estrange them. And in Tolkien's work their ability to maintain this relationship both by being together and by being apart is not a show of emotional distance, but a testament to their love.

And one might assume that such a love is not too exciting, but I don't think this is the case. Galadriel is the one character in the legendarium who chooses to be known by her epesse. Her lover gave her a name and she felt so loved and seen that she wanted the entire world to perceive her as he does. This shows adoration, but also certaintly that their love was IT for her. And centurles later, Celeborn still considers Galadriel his treasure and is bereft of her. But he manages to treasure her without objectifying her. And that's so beautiful. These two were down bad for each other.