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and may your treasure remain with you by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
27 Dec 2024
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Drabble for the prompt 'Last Dance'. Title from Celeborn's parting words to Aragorn: "Kinsman, farewell! May your doom be other than mine, and your treasure remain with you to the end."
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Only I hear the stones lament them by eye_of_a_cat for klynnvakarian
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
26 Dec 2024
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The hill-people might think her a fey enchantress here to lure the unwary into an echoing nether-world of the dead. Sometimes even she wonders if this is what she has become.
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The names of our wounds by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
22 Dec 2024
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After the end of season 2, the elves are building a haven in what will become Imladris and gathering their armies to strike back against Sauron. The scar left above Galadriel's heart by the spike of Morgoth's crown is healing. They may have lost the battle, but they have not yet lost the war.
And yet sometimes that scar aches. Sometimes she hears Halbrand's voice calling to her. And when two masked figures calling themselves Gaudrim arrive from Rhûn, saying they are elves of long-lost Doriath, Galadriel will not be the only one who finds healing a more complicated thing than it first appears.
(featuring: my those-Gaudrim-are-Sindarin-elves theory, Galadriel's crown stab injury as a Morgul-wound type of thing, masks, healing, and the overlap between marriage bonds and sorcery bonds.)
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With ash in your mouth you'll ask it to burn again by eye_of_a_cat for HereInLies
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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He is thinking of fangs and the hot metal taste of blood and when she flinches a little he wonders if she can tell it - but she only lifts her chin more, defiant, inviting.
“This what a king would do?” he murmurs into her skin.
A sharp breath. A glare. “I do not wish further battles with you, Halbrand.”
“I think you do,” he says, “I think you like it.”
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They're whispering his name through this disappearing land by eye_of_a_cat for Semjaza
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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It is… a memory? Yes, a memory. He was young and going to war. He was perhaps afraid, perhaps keen, perhaps both; he had not yet lost all that he is still to lose. And this… this night happened, he is sure – he remembers – he relives it, campfire smoke in the cold air, the bright stars above. Singing, around him -
Some small and desperate part of him tears at his mind – these are orcs you hear, these are orcs, you know the tune, that’s all, they’ve stolen it and distorted it and sullied it like they do all else, it’s not your songs, it’s not your comrades -
- but his lips mouth the words of the song all the same.
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And should I fall behind, wait for me by eye_of_a_cat for Softlight
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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She lays her head upon his shoulder and breathes, and all the fury and resentment she felt earlier feels – not gone, exactly, but less. No longer liable to choke or smother her, no longer a burden she has dragged all the way up this hill to sit with alone while the others gather in company.
A meeting in Lindon some years before s1, and an argument resolved.
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When will you come back home? by eye_of_a_cat for violet_pencil
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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What she’s thinking of instead is that something’s all too familiar in what Elrond isn’t saying, that glint of something below the surface when he mentioned Maedhros, when he spoke of family. She knows it well; very well indeed.
She does, she thinks, still want to know more of it from Elrond, and not for her father-in-law’s diplomatic negotiations or her husband’s wounded friendship but for something far more simple and raw in herself: a sorrow that recognises its mirror, an understanding shared.
Disa, Durin, and why Elrond never went to their wedding.
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Our steps will always rhyme by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
16 Nov 2024
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They have fought so long at each other's side that they move in combat like dancers, understanding without word or signal what the other needs. It is little different in this. He moulds himself around her with all the comfort of armour, tenses beneath her hand as if she is drawing back the string of a bow; she can feel each ripple of muscle beneath his skin move as though he was made for her, made just for this.
Nenya reminds Galadriel of how sweet betrayal can taste.
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Always coming home the same castaway by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
30 Oct 2024
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Someone on Tumblr described this as "Sauron bringing her Celeborn the way a cat brings its owner a mouse", and I cannot summarise it better than that. Canon-divergence for before the end of s1 in which Halbrand never got to Eregion.
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Precious by eye_of_a_cat for Nelja-in-English (Nelja)
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 Oct 2024
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Gollum, the One Ring, and his captivity in Mordor.
So: a long-ago river.
So: a birthday present.
So: cruelly cursed and driven away, into the deeps of mountains for the secrets of things, hidden jewels and shining gold, all the world’s wonders.
Ask for it. Beg for it. Please please please.
His voice purrs like a cat. “What I do for you, little pet,” it says.
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Five places Celeborn hasn't spent the past eight hundred years by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
02 Oct 2024
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Five separate little stories, based on different fandom theories about where he might have been:
1 - Actually was dead, and is sent back from Valinor;
2 - Adar is Celeborn;
3 - Amnesia (featuring single-dad-of-Amroth Celeborn);
4 - One of the Gaudrim in Rhûn;
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Lands far away by eye_of_a_cat for Lizzen
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
01 Sep 2024
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It’s as if he can finally turn and confront this land in all its entirety, this hellish distant prison that’s kept him trapped and held here for so long. He wants to hate this place but he finds that he can’t; he only pities it, this land which was meant to be green and is not, this land that whispers to him its grief for all its lost trees.
The Stranger is Gandalf, Celeborn is one of the Gaudrim, and a thousand years later in Lothlórien they reminisce together about missing memories and the importance of trees.
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Shadow-Bride by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
28 Aug 2024
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"Once upon a time there was a soldier, a great warrior of the elves. The youngest child and only daughter of a mighty family. And there was… what am I in this story? The monster, the king?”
In trying to convince Halbrand to leave Númenor and take his place as king of the Southlands, Galadriel swears an oath to stand by him no matter what his past holds. This changes the history of Middle-earth for many centuries to come.
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- Part 3 of Five things plus one
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Not one before another by eye_of_a_cat for likethenight
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
05 Aug 2024
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They are the last two threads of an age-old tapestry. It is right that they should twine around each other in one perfectly sealed, perfectly seamless knot.
Years after the War of the Ring, the twins must decide whether to remain in Middle-earth or sail to the West.
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And there will come soft rains by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
19 Jun 2024
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And she will heal. And this is the best of all endings. And he (who does not belong in Valinor, who never will, who could not have Middle-earth unstitched from him without being left himself as nothing more than remnants of thread and powder) cannot bear the knowing it.
So it is another’s name, not hers, that Celeborn speaks into her Mirror now.
RoP-continuity but in the Fourth Age, after Galadriel has sailed to Valinor.
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Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble by eye_of_a_cat for Isilloth
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
18 Jun 2024
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Maeglin does betray Gondolin - but when he wakes up, he's not lying broken on the rocks below the city walls. He's in a soft bed in Gondolin, and no-one knows what he's talking about.
Idril was sparkling light on water, brightness and radiance in constant, shimmering movement. Idril was warm as sun-bathed stone. Idril disliked him and at the heart of her dislike created this thing of need and desire; and in the same way, he loved Idril but could not love without forging something of resentment and fury within it.
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Weakened like Achilles, with you always at my heels by eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022)
16 Jun 2024
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He harbours no delusions now that he can seek his own path; no matter what he does to clean this body he can still feel the touch of Melkor’s charred hands upon him, all the blood he has spilled engrained into the creases of his hands. But he can serve her. She is a bright blaze of purpose and certainty, glorious, blinding; he can find purpose and punishment alike in anything she wants of him.
A shared moment after the battle of Tirharad in Episode 6.
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As certain dark things are loved by eye_of_a_cat for Softlight
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
15 May 2024
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Annatar knows he is beautiful. He knows he must be beautiful to her now, arranged in neat and perfect symmetry: his hands folded before him, his eyes not quite raised to hers, the silk of his gown pooled on the floor. He has always known well how to kneel.
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I do not hope to bind the wind by eye_of_a_cat for RussetFiredrake
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 May 2024
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She squeezes his hand but doesn’t answer, and he remembers something she said long ago about her brothers being only figures of legend now with so few left on Middle-earth who ever knew them.
Celeborn remembers, though. Angrod and Aegnor; and Finrod; and Galadriel herself in the years before the Enemy, before Nenya, before their endless, numbing war.
A couple of moments in Third Age Lothlorien.
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Brighten my northern sky by eye_of_a_cat for yletylyf
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 May 2024
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Glorfindel’s first thought is one of regret, of a loss of something he had not quite realised he’d been holding. His second is of hope: for if Celeborn is to marry one of Finarfin’s children then surely he will be some part of their future here in Beleriand. His third is that he has had entirely too much wine.
A meeting in Doriath during the First Age.