#eregion

[noldclante]

Narvi x Celebrimbor sketch dump ♡ The power couple of Ost-in-Edhil *Celeborn disapproving in the background*

Celebrimbor is an adorable dork, but he is Narvi's adorable dork. Also, Narvi can bench press him with one arm.

[drawulan]

[inthehouseoffinwe]

I have this hc that Sauron’s obsession with vanity led him to spend years studying Maedhros’ features and trying to emulate them. When he couldn’t get it right, the proportions always a little off, red hair never deep enough, he took his anger out on Mae and when that option was gone, tried to pull from others also renown for their beauty instead.

Fast forward a few centuries and turns out all that work wasn’t entirely useless. And Sauron knows exactly what to do with the features he was able to recreate. Weaving them into his new face, the line of Maitimo’s smile, the set of his eyebrows, the crease of his eyes, he puts just enough to be familiar, but not enough to set off any alarms.

Celebrimbor doesn’t know *why* he trusts Annatar so easily, just that he’s got a good feeling about him. The Maia reminds him of someone he can’t quite put a finger on, but it’s a good association and he doesn’t think on it too deeply. Grows to call him a brother in all but blood.

Of course we all know how that ends. And the last thing Celebrimbor sees is his eldest Uncle’s smile, a mockery of the warmth it should hold as Sauron finally ends his torture.

(Elrond, on the other hand, never saw Maitimo who used to laugh easily and play silly games with children. Only grim Maedhros. The gentle features Sauron steals are alien to him. A stranger with too many familiar features he can’t quite place, twisted the wrong way, leaving him deeply unsettled. It’s why he immediately tells Gil Galad to send Annatar away, hiding trembling hands in his sleeves.)

[tanoraqui]

2nd Age Middle Earth thought: We know Sauron is a fan of long-range psychological attacks as he besieges a city. Do you think after 400 years of getting to know the people of Ost-in-Edhil, they were personal? Like, it’s not just Sauron camped on a nearby hill weaving a spell of fear and despair into the dark clouds that now flow out over your city, setting fell whispers loose in your dreams. It’s Sauron whom you once told, while tipsy at a Yule party 200 years ago, that you were still frightened of dogs after an incident in your childhood, or that you never felt like you’d truly lived up to your mother’s expectations, or… And now the Song he’s woven of hopeless terror has notes that sound like the howling of hungry hounds, or your mother’s disparaging sigh, or... And he’s doing that to everyone at once with all their different private doubts and fears.

Annatar: a great friend in that he’s an active listener, very good at remembering your favorite tea to drink when you’re down, or the book you mentioned reading to discuss with you a year later. Also, unfortunately, Sauron.

[martanis]

"I am taking command" ⭑.ᐟ Sauron in 2.07 The Rings of Power

[sakasakiii]

im a bit rusty when it comes to rendering comics but since i missed out on the yearly comic offering in 2024, here is an old draft from 2021 that has been sitting as a wip in my folder for 4 years ajsddhj

bonus: what master smiths do in their free time

[tehcherrya]

Why is Eregion so Christmas-y?

Lord of Holly-Land? And the Lord of Gifts? Elves in a Workshop?

Like, c'mon, it's the spirit of the season over there!

[thelien-art]

Ring Lords;

Annatar, The Lord of Gifts & Celebrimbor, Lord of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain.

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