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Chapters: 1/22 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Celebrimbor | Telperinquar/Elrond Peredhel Characters: Elrond Peredhel, Celebrimbor | Telperinquar Additional Tags: other characters have cameos - Freeform, and there are characters who are not present and yet loom large, Second Age, Lindon (Tolkien), Himring, Tol Himling, Trauma, Early Second Age Elrond is not in a healthy headspace, honestly Celebrimbor’s headspace isn’t looking that great either, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Dreams, Nightmares, the sea, Hurt/Comfort, disturbing imagery, Tolkien Decameron Project, Holding Hands, Developing Relationship, Slow Burn Summary:
Early in the Second Age, Elrond is a loremaster-in-training (self-taught, but not any less well-taught for that, thank you) in Gil-galad’s court. He does not speak of his past, and does not take to inquiries with good grace. But when he receives an assignment that will take him to one of the few remnants of the drowned lands of his childhood, he finds that his past is not so easily ignored as all that. Gil-galad’s choice of traveling companion for him does not help matters. At all.