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TOLKIEN AU☆ ELROND as a descendant of CELEGORM
[through Dior]Elros is all wild tumbles, dirt on his palms and dark hair mussed with knots. He’s vivacious with a toothy grin and a quick wit. But it’s the other twin, Elrond, that puzzles Maglor.
Elrond is a quiet fire with the same metal-grey eyes as his brother. But while Elros’s hair is a dark chestnut, Elrond has a head of silver-hot hair - smooth strands that pool over his shoulders. The other differences between the twins are miniscule, the sharpness of Elrond’s features compared to Elros’s softer smile or the downturn of the mouth that sets the twins apart.
In mood, they seem alike - Elrond is no sullen child by any means but the realisation barrels into Maglor when the twins smile at him. The way Elrond smiles, as good-hearted as he seems, as if he’s baring his teeth and the smile doesn’t reach his feline-like eyes.
A smile that he once saw in his younger brother who was all ferocious grins and furrowed brows - his younger brother who had hair that seemed to capture the white fire of stars.
Not long after, when Maglor slams his hands on Maedhros’s desk and relays his concerns, the story seems to make so much sense.
Celegorm’s attachment to the Princess of Doriath, the shocked look on their younger brother’s face when his eyes were glazed over with death and Dior Eluchíl lay bleeding just out of arm’s reach and the pure spirit that Elrond possesses - that scorching fire and the will to survive and to fight and to struggle against it all.
And for the first time in 500 years, Maedhros loses his composure and swears.
[ID: A 3x3 moodboard for Elrond, imagining him as a descendant of Celegorm. The main colours are white and blue.
- Pale blond hair, some strands being braided
- Open books with maps showing
- A pale grey eye in a light-skinned face. Around it, littletranslucent pearls are stuck
- Rolls of blue fabric patterned with white
- A painting of a person whose face seems to be replaced by an empty frame
- A single person on a lonely beach
- A small river with a stony bed
- A painting of someone holding a feather
- A painting of red, black, and white flowers
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daddy issues this and that but I think Celegorm has mommy issues actually.
look hear me out, he is ride or die for his father, it’s pretty obvious. and I am absolutely certain that pre-darkening and everything, the one in the family who enforced things like “apologising” and “following norms of good behaviour” and “making amends, and grounding you if you fail to do so” just… was not Feanor. I know it’s a common take to make him strict with discipline but I just do notsee it. what I see is actually a father who backs his sons up even if they’re wrong, depending on the reason of a dispute, out of sheer personal affection. and if they’re right? then whatever else they did is not their or his problem, because they are right. and that comes first. but, on the other hand, I see a Nerdanel who, even if they’re right, still pushes for a mediating behaviour — yes, you are right, but you shouldn’t have done what you did even so; I see a Nerdanel who, when they’re wrong, will say so, and will insist for acknowledgement of that as a first step to fix the situation.
and look, I think Celegorm gets a lot of that from her. far from the only one, but I feel he especiallygets it, because anything and everything we’ve seen from him shows a tendency to double down, no matter what. this man does not feel sorry, and does not saysorry. he used to, but the more in late days he grows estranged from his mother, and the more he attaches himself to his father (and oh boy does he attach himself to his father), the more her approach to educating and disciplining cements in a sense of rejection. from her side but also, crucially, from his perspective of her — and eventually as rejection from him too. it isn’t even anger towards her, but a radical refusal; and telling someone “you are wrong actually” is sometimes a very strong form of love (the ability to call a wrongdoing out even as you love someone), but I don’t feel he would perceive it as such.
Trans Celegorm who everyone saw as like, Míriel reborn (not literally but close enough), rebelling by being wild and angry and masculine and unlike his grandmother in every way
Only later does he discover she too was a hunter, she too would not be silenced, she too was proudly masculine in a way that made people whisper when Finwë looked upon her with love
For Tyelko, his gender was a proud refusal of who he was “supposed” to be. For Míriel, her gender was a proud embrace of who she was in spite of what people thought of her.
Trans Tyelko and gnc Míriel, grandson and grandmother who only met in death, who are mirror reflections of each other, who both clung to their pride and their family despite the doom those paths led down to.
and not to be a Hobbit movie fan on main, but; “I am not my grand[mother]” says local prince desperately trying to escape and to cling to his family legacy both at once
