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If They Return by lightbringerancalima

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
10 Dec 2025
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Elrond and Celebrían are finally reunited in Valinor, but they are still haunted by their past, and by the awareness that they had lost Arwen forever. In an attempt to take control of her life again, Celebrían makes Elrond a proposal.
And so, the bliss of their long-awaited encounter had soon faded into a monotonous, quiet coexistence, where they tried to give sense to their shared mourning. Of their daughter, first and foremost, but also of what had once forced her to flee from the shores of the Middle-earth, leaving behind all the ones she loved. For even after all those long centuries, for all the skills of the Valar and the soothing, lulling peace of Aman, a cruel seed of illness still laid deep within her, a clump of ice between her ribs, that never fully went away, forgotten in her happiest moments, but still lying under, ready to resurface.

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1/1

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10

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golden days and silver nights by lightbringerancalima

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
08 Nov 2025
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"Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them." - The Silmarillion, Of the Return of the Noldor

Of how Celeborn and Artanis met in Doriath, and how they came to be.

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2/2

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24

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40

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beautiful and yet horrible of shape by lightbringerancalima

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
30 Oct 2025
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Celeborn meets Galadriel after the Test of the Ring.

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1,424

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33

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a midwinter night's dream by lightbringerancalima

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2025
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At the beginning of the Second Age, Galadriel thinks about her past, and about her choices.

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- Part 4 of Tales of the Second Age
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6

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24

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4

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lost in a dream by lightbringerancalima

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
18 Jan 2025
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We know that once Elrond met Celebrían, and loved her, and said nothing of it. But what of Celebrían?

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- Part 3 of Tales of the Second Age
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2/2

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Passion's Forge by amyfortuna (elwinfortuna)

Fandoms: TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Sep 2016
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Nerdanel's newest creation gets her betrothed all hot and bothered.

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- Part 20 of 2016 Season of Kink (Card 1)
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30 Sep 2016
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The Cenotaph by timelessutterances

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
20 Oct 2025
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“For no war ever ends. Children born tomorrow are shaped by arrows fired yesterday. Celeborn’s daughter was born over a thousand years after the sacking of her father’s birthplace. She will live to the breaking of the world having only ever known a father who once watched his homeland burn and spent the rest of his life counting Doriath’s dead. Like all war-children born to a world that had already ended for their parents, Celebrían had to learn there were rooms within her father she could never enter, whole wings of his fëa razed to the ground.”
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A study of Celeborn, the Second Kinslaying, and his lost Doriath, from the First Age to the Fourth.

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10 Mar 2026
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A welcome distraction by firstamazon

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
19 May 2023
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Nerdanel is trying to work, but Fëanor has other ideas.

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04 Jan 2026
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The Cradlesinger by timelessutterances for zuo_zuo

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
06 Sep 2025
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"Lullabies do not make kinslayers. This he knows. And yet, it never stops the worry from curdling in his chest, the only constant of all the cradles he has sung beside. For the tune endures after all, and nothing empty can truly endure: every vacant hroä holds a fragment of the fëa that once forsook it. Can a song be washed of meaning? Is tenderness immune to ideology? Groping about blindly in the dark of their dreams, Elrond had always worried that he was not watering the crops for his children to harvest, but salting the earth before the seeds could be planted."
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At a parade celebrating the the founding of Imladris, Elrond spots an unforgettable face in the crowd, a face he’s not seen for millennia. To his delight and apprehension, it is indeed Maglor Fëanorian, who brings with him two things. First, a suspiciously tame monkey he insists isn’t a metaphor. Second, the groundshaking admission that Elwing and Eärendil’s sons were not named Elrond and Elros.

Or, a love letter to Maglor, Elwing, and Elrond.

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07 Sep 2025
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I'll drink my thirsty fill by BloodwingBlackbird

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
07 Dec 2021
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Celeborn returns from a journey. Galadriel is happy to see him.
That's it. That's the plot.

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1/1

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Bookmarked by lightbringerancalima

30 Jun 2025