#Celegorm too was bitter and also hes a lil demon and he wanted to take vengeanceupon Doriath while forcing them into alliance

[elvesofnoldor]

i still love maedhros and maglor but these days i gotta say, celebrimbor gotta be my favourite feanorian.....i hate that there is like three different versions of his origin because he was conceived as as lord of the rings backstory character that tolkien tried to shoehorned into the house of feanor and the first age, and i really hate that we saw his door at moria in lotr and even though it’s this beautiful remanent of the friendship and love between (noldor) elves and dwarves that blossomed under his rule at Eregion, tolkien just didnt seem to think that feat mattered a lot......but i fucking love him ok! he was the character that connects the legacy of Eldar days/first age to the more recent days that took place during lotr, he was so fucking important ok. he was the one who expanded on the alliance his house had with dwarves for centuries and turned that mere alliance into friendship and love because of noldors and dwarves’ shared passion in crafts and invention! his close friend was dwarf! probably his closest friend tbh! legolas isnt fucking special ok and legolas wasnt even an artificer! And more importantly! my tyelpe! he was brave! Despite having made the mistakes of trusting sauron enough to learn from him, he still did what he can to save his people from becoming enslaved to sauron’s will and gave everybody else (men and dwarves) a chance--however slim that chance was! (sure he was forced to give up the locations of rings that sauron gave to men and dwarves, but only under torture which he died from! not to mention im pretty sure with the one ring sauron could find the lesser rings on his own anyways, celebrimbor saved his fellow elves from becoming thralls to sauron and that alone gave everybody a fucking chance at survival and freedom). surely his story with sauron would have echoed somewhat with feanor’s story with melkor, and he has indeed made grieve mistakes in his pursue of knowledge and out of his desire to do good with power, but he was only...a person! (yeah “only human” doesnt work here but whatever). To me however, he has redeemed his house from their past sins and transgressions against their own people. Surely it sucks that the curse of his house took his life in such a gruesome fashion, but to me, whatever grief or hurt his house inflicted upon their people through the kinslayings, he cleaned them away with his own blood. And in life, he only furthered the good his house has done in the past. I like to think his story is that of tragedy, redemption, hope and friendship, and he’s a fucking hero of his own right.