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[isilwhore]

The Sons of Isildur 💔

[elronds-library]

To love and to live

by Camille_LaChenille (@camille-lachenille)

Celebrían and Varyandë grow close during the war of the Last Alliance, and unexpected feelings bloom between them.

Teen, Major Character Death

Words: 1,004

[fangirl-erdariel]

Chapter 8: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

(Yay, I finally got around to posting the next chapter of the English translation of the King of the Tower of the Moon!)

Isildur, Ciryon, and Aratan continue their journey to Morthond. Back in Osgiliath, the ladies talk about sons and marriages.

Ciryon is surprised again when the younger daughter wants to talk with him instead of Aratan and Carastion. Her name is Ailinel, and she lets her brown locks flow freely in the wind as she sits on her white horse. Unlike her sister, she uses a men's saddle and is dressed in simple and sparsely decorated clothes. Ailinel tells him her family's story; how her father and grandfather fled Númenor with their wives after Sauron had his temple built and the persecution of the Faithful began. Her grandfather founded the city of Calembel in Lamedon and began to farm the land. They ride to the top of a low grassy hill and look from there toward the White Mountains rising steep and steadfast everywhere in the northern and eastern horizon. "It is hard to believe that there is anything at all beyond those mountains! Or that anyone could cross them", says Ciryon. He has seen them many times before, but he had never understood how far west and south the lines of snow-capped mountains stretch. "Behind them in the north is Calenardhon, a green country of tall grass and few people. But going further north, beyond the borders of Gondor and all the way to the Vales of Anduin, you would meet Northmen", explains Ailinel. "They are strong people and good riders. Father has travelled to them at times and bought horses from them."

As before, thank you so much to @eomerofrohan for beta'ing my translation! <3

[arofili]

the line of elros ♚ royalty of arnor ♚ headcanon disclaimer

          Isildur was the elder son of Elendil. He and his brother Anárion were born and raised among the Faithful in Númenor shortly before its fall. Though they were heirs of the House of Andúnië, neither ever saw their ancestral homeland, as their people had been forcibly removed to Rómenna. While still in his youth, Isildur fell in love with the farmer Cemniel. Their first child, Elendur, was born shortly after their wedding; the couple would wait many years before having another child.           As the shadow over Númenor began to darken, Ar-Pharazôn purposed to cut down the White Tree of Gondor. When Elendil heard of this, he turned to his own father Amandil in his distress, but unbeknownst to them both Isildur overheard this and resolved to steal one of Nimloth’s fruits to preserve its line. He was grievously wounded by the king’s guards, but managed to escape, and when the sapling that grew from the fruit’s seed produced its first leaf, he was healed.           When the Downfall occurred and Númenor began to be swallowed up by the sea, Elendil and his sons were prepared. In nine ships, they fled with their people to Middle-earth. With them they took heirlooms: seven Seeing Stones, the Sceptre of Annúminas, the Ring of Barahir, the sword Narsil, and the seedling of Nimloth.           Isildur and Anárion were separated from their father during the tumultuous voyage to the mainland. They landed in the south, by the mouths of Anduin, and there established the kingdom of Gondor while their father founded the kingdom of Arnor in the north. At length, their family was reunited, and though their kingdoms were far apart they kept in contact through the Seeing Stones.           Gondor was ruled jointly by the brothers, who held court in Osgiliath. Anárion settled in Minas Anor and Isildur in Minas Ithil, where he and Cemniel judged it safe to have two more sons: Aratan and Círyon.           When Sauron, diminished from the fair and glorious form he had taken in Númenor, returned to the east as a shadow, he settled in Mordor and rebuilt his strength before attacking Gondor and forcing Isildur from Minas Ithil. While Anárion held Osgiliath, Isildur and his family moved north to Arnor, and aided Elendil in forming an alliance with Gil-galad, High King of the Noldor.           In the very year of the birth of Valandil, Isildur’s final son, the Last Alliance of Elves and Men marched to war. Isildur left Cemniel and Valandil in Imladris as he continued on to the Dagorlad, where the siege on Mordor lasted seven years. His eldest son Elendur fought at his side, though Aratan and Círyon remained in the reclaimed city of Minas Ithil to serve as a guard should the battle go ill.           At last Elendil and Gil-galad faced down Sauron, and though he was cast down both High Kings perished in the effort. It was then that Isildur took the hilt of his father’s broken sword, Narsil, and cut the One Ring from Sauron’s finger and defeating him utterly. Isildur ignored the advice of Elrond and Círdan to destroy the Ring, instead claiming it as a weregild for the deaths of his father and brother and an heirloom for his house.           Isildur returned to Gondor and proclaimed himself High King of the Dúnedain, though he would rule in Arnor, leaving his nephew Meneldil regent of Gondor. He planted the seedling of Nimloth in Minas Anor in memory of his brother and buried his father in the tomb of Amon Anwar before traveling north with his three elder sons to reunite with Cemniel and young Valandil.           Alas, before their company reached Imladris, Isildur’s retinue was attacked by a massive company of orcs. He sent his esquire Ohtar away with the shards of Narsil before the orcs closed in. One by one, Isildur’s sons died about him, and he heeded Elendur’s dying wish for him to use the One Ring to escape. But even invisible and swimming across the river, the orcs could still smell him, and he was shot, falling back into the water. No trace of him was found by elves or men, and the Ring itself was lost for millennia.

[bonusdragons]

April 25, 2021:

Cerise Tertiary, Nocturne, Keel.

Ciryon of ahomine's clan!

[sweetdemolitionlovers]

« Nothing hurts my world. Just affects the ones around me. When sin's deep in my blood. You'll be the one to fall. » ♫ Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold

Ciryon 💕 My baby incubus 💕

[isilwhore]

When therefore Sauron saw his time he came with great force against the new realm of Gondor, and he took Minas Ithil, and he destroyed the White Tree of Isildur that grew there. But Isildur escaped, and taking with him a seedling of the Tree he went with his wife and his sons by ship down the River, and they sailed from the mouths of Anduin seeking Elendil.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, The Silmarillion

The Life of Isildur 4/10

[fangirl-erdariel]

Chapter 9: In the Hall of the Mountain-King

Isildur's delegation meets with the Men of the Mountains, and tries to negotiate an alliance.

Even if the mountain-folk are ill-mannered people, they at least do not seem evil. Ciryon listens while father talks with the king. He assures him that the attacks into Morthond Vale and Lamedon have not happened at his orders. He bemoans his men's ideas and promises to do his best to put an end to their ill deeds. The truth however is that the people are poor, and hungry too, and perhaps it is no wonder if the rich farms of the Men of the West are tempting to the people of the mountains. Father suggests that the mountain-folk should begin to farm land themselves. There are many lush meadows in Calenardhon that they could clear into fields. But Buldar laughs and says that they are men of the mountains and do not care for digging in the dirt. They hunt their food and do not grow it, as that would be too boring, laborious, and uncertain too, for north of the mountains the frost could take the harvest at any time.

Thanks once again to @eomerofrohan for beta'ing this!! ^^