#Celrondir
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runawaymun ¡ 9 months ago
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Thanks, and ok. Can’t see elrond without Celebrian tho sooooo… triad them with Lindir? Ugh… but power imbalance? (Unless Lindir is a secret badass which I’m down for)
I tend to ship Lindir with Elrond in an OT3 situation with Celebrían for sure, or in an unrequited (because I like to be sad) way. The power imbalance is definitely a problem but I tend to think of Elrond and Celebrían as being self aware enough to make sure that Lindir is ok and that he always feels like a partner in running Rivendell rather than just a member of staff or whatever. He just has different responsibilities but they’re all very much partners (and in the way that I slot different members of the Rivendell group into their roles, Lindir naturally works alongside Celebrían anyway in his stewardship position. I don’t think of him merely like Elrond’s personal attendant as I’ve seen in some fics. He’s essential to the smooth running of their home and entirely responsible for things like accounting, inventory management, management of most of the staff, etc etc. he and Celebrían are partners in that sense. Elrond handles the political aspect of running the city and the two of them manage logistics so Lindir isn’t in a subordinate position any more than Cel is!)
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sanisse ¡ 2 years ago
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In response to Lindir crying every night
I’m actually a big shipper of Elrondir esp post-Celebrians sail. He can’t cry every night if he’s wrapped up in Elrond’s arms 🥰
I actually ship the three of them together!
Like i have two AUs in my head: one where the three of them got married to each other before she sailed, and one where Elrond and Lindir became an item after Cel sailed and then the three of them became an item in Valinor upon Elrond's sailing. Cel and Lindir are mostly QP with a small romantic bent. But mostly it's the "this is my husband Elrond and this is my husband's husband Lindir". They enjoy sex in separate combos and together. Cel and Lindir just tend not to have sex so much on their own. Usually when they do it's either because Elrond's not available or Lindir's craving something very specific with Cel. Like he's absolutely whipped for both of them and he IS bi, but he's much more into sex with men. Elrond tends to fall in love with mostly men but likes sex with both men and women equally. Lindir and Cel are mostly just really affectionate with each other and cuddle :) And Cel likes watching Elrond wreck Lindir. It's very hot.
Sometimes I like to combine this into an OT4 with Gil-Galad, though I headcannon that Gil is very aro, so he's just very QP for Elrond, besties with Cel, and besties with Lindir (who is very embarrassed by this THAT'S THE FORMER HIGH KING OF THE NOLDOR)
I really adore the first AU for the cute shippy nonsense, and the second AU for the angst factor. I love the concept of Lindir just assuming that Elrond will ditch him once he sails to be with his wife, and even when Elrond assures him that he would never do that and that Cel will absolutely welcome him into the marriage with open arms he's still very unsure and insecure about it until they actually get to Valinor. The angst potential is too good :)
But yeah
Lindir 🤝 Cel 🤝 Gil-Galad > being utterly head over heels for Elrond
Elrond contains multitudes and has so much love to give so I really don't see any reason why he can't have multiple partners who he loves and cherishes equally and differently. I tend to reserve Celrondgalad (as in, this is my husband Elrond & this is Elrond's QP partner Ereinion) as a "canon" interpretation, if you will, whereas Celrondir lives in the AU side of my brain.
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runawaymun ¡ 2 years ago
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“I’m extremely fond of Elrond in all sorts of relationships and various constellations and polycules” can you give some examples? Excluding ROP Elrond bc I’m not that interested in him (respectfully, still think he’s lovely)
Hello hello! 💕 thank you for giving me an opportunity to ramble about some more brainrot!
So excluding Rings of Power, here’s some fav polycules:
S-tier: Celrondir — Celebrían/Elrond/Lindir (hobbit films) I’m really fond of the Elrondir ship but I can never justify setting Elrond up with someone and not involving Celebrían, so in my head Lindir got a crush on Elrond, Elrond got a crush on Lindir, and meanwhile Cel was in the background also mildly attracted to Lindir (but mostly they’re just besties) & she was like ‘ok now kiss’. Bonus points if they eventually all get married to each other — peak sweet anxious wreck Lindir getting doted on by Cel & Elrond, but also Lindir and Elrond mutually sitting there fawning over their hot wife. Meanwhile Celebrían has this lil harem of husbands who adore her (and she and Lindir gossip about Elrond like girls at a sleepover). I just love them your honor.
S-tier - QPR Celrondgalad - I’m very much of the opinion that Elrond and Gil had some mutual devotion/fealty queerplatonic intense thing going on in the second age. Absolute platonic soulmates (who occasionally had sex). Celebrían and Gil were best buddies & like literally nobody was a bigger Celrond shipper than Gil. He loved seeing how happy they made each other 😭💕 and like Elrond and Celebrían didn’t really get a chance to talk about this because of Gil’s fate, but Elrond got this impression that he needed to break off the QPR thing with Gil, meanwhile Cel was like “what we have and what you two have are two completely different things and not mutually exclusive”. So at some point they did end up talking about this and once Elrond sails and reunites with both of them, it’s very much a “hi this is my husband and this is my best friend who’s my husband’s boyfriend” and I love them for that
A-tier - Celrondgalad 🤝 Celrondir - in a Celrondir verse, Lindir sails with Elrond to reunite with Cel and then also gets the shock of his life getting invited into a four-person polycule with the High King(tm) and is extremely embarrassed and worked up about this. I can’t really see Lindir and Gil being a thing except for besties who bond over their adoration for Elrond.
B-tier (fun to think about sometimes but mostly as a joke) - Celronduil and Celronduil 🤝 Celrondir - Celebrían and Thranduil tell Elrond to get in the car, loser, we’re going shopping. Weird on the surface but the more you think about the more entertaining the dynamics get. Especially if you toss Lindir in for fun because he is but one poor wet pathetic meow meow in a polycule of extremely strong personalities. It amuses me so I daydream about it often.
Basically all of these naturally revolve around Celrond, because I headcannon that Elrond just wasn’t really interested in romantic relationships very much prior to meeting Celebrían (except now I have a Celebrimbor brain worm that is changing that…), and Celrond is so endgame to me that all of my polycules are born out of me trying to reconcile my other pet Elrond ships without having to wave away my OTP 😂 plus it just makes sense. Elrond has so much love to give and I feel like he deserves a polycule. As a treat.
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runawaymun ¡ 9 months ago
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HC Lindir sometimes saying my lord or my lady with a saucy smirk and double meaning?
oh hell yeah :D
also HC Elrond and Cel calling Lindir 'my lord' flirtatiously when he least expects it because it completely flusters him and they love to watch him blush.
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runawaymun ¡ 7 months ago
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Not-Yet-Written-Fics Game
Tagged by @camille-lachenille to talk about the various fics swimming around in my soup of a brain that I haven't gotten around to writing anything down about. Y'know, the ones that exist in vivid detail inside my head. So here's a rough list, and you guys can send me asks about them if you want <3
The Kidnap Fam Fic - the one where I finally write down the abduction of Elrond and Elros from Sirion, as I see it, and how 'Love grew' between E&E and M&M, re how Tolkien phrases it, with all the messiness and the fucked-upness and the complex trauma and, yeah, the love.
Celrond get-together enemies-to-lovers speedrun. -- NOT the Celrond arranged marriage AU, of which I have actually written about three chapters. This is, instead, how I see them in a more canon sense.
Rivendell's Tiny Tearaway - another adopted family fic (what's new) but this time it's about Elrond, Estel, and Gilraen.
The Magician's Nephew x LOTR crossover that would make Tolkien spin in his grave and CS Lewis cackle with delight.
Stranger Things x LOTR crossover (mostly centered around One/Vecna and Elrond).
MGME except it's my OC from my sci fi novel.
Celebrimbor Lives AU
Celrondir (Celrond x Lindir) origins fic
Partake Prequel
EDIT: Adding two more that I forgot about
10. The Elrond in Valinor fic + second flight of the Noldor 11. Another MGME but it's just my OCs from my historical fiction novel
Tagging: @lordgrimwing @jaz-the-bard @niennawept @glorf1ndel @raointean @thesummerestsolstice & anyone else who wants to play!
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runawaymun ¡ 1 year ago
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WIP Poll Game
Tagged by @jaz-the-bard - thank you!!! I've been seeing this go around and I'm so happy to play :D
Rules: post a poll of your WIPs, then write as many sentences for the winner as it gets votes
I am a fool and forgot to tag people. I'm not sure who has already been tagged but regardless, I'm tagging: @slightnettles @thesolarangel @raointean & @elentarial
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runawaymun ¡ 6 months ago
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22 for the writer ask game!!
22.   Care to share any future WIP ideas you have lined up?
Thank you! I have so many WIP ideas tbh it's kind of embarrassing haha. I am most excited about my Celrond arranged marriage AU (which I think I have talked about ad nauseum at this point) but it's just SO juicy and fun! Idiots in love. Thinking it's unrequited but it's not. They hate each other they love each other they're so dumb your honor.
I want to do more Elrondir as well. I miss them. I have a couple of longfics planned for them. One's a modern coffeeshop AU (I know I know haha). And the other one is still definitely AU but it's the Celrondir OT3 AU (in which Cel and Elrond are both a little bit in love with Lindir - though on Cel's part it doesn't really have a romance aspect, and Lindir is in love with both of them, and in the usual fashion no one says anything for far too long).
This is not Tolkien related but I have a lot of Baizhu&Qiqi fics for Genshin Impact floating around my head. Nothing concrete, but I really love them and I want to write for them. Those father-daughter feels, man. There is also something percolating about Baizhu and Qiqi leaving Bubu Pharmacy in Gui's capable hands for a while and going with the traveler to search for immortality for Baizhu. I have nothing beyond that idea-wise. It's just kind of there, but that would be a whole ass Project haha. I just really want to help him.
Writer ask game
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runawaymun ¡ 1 year ago
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Rules: Reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!
tagged by @emyn-arnens and @echo-bleu - thank you so much! I love this game! WIPs have a tendency to languish and I know for a fact that I haven’t written anything new in some of these since the last time I did this so, if you send me in one asking for a snippet and I don’t have anything new, I’ll impose a rule on myself that I have to write a little more to share with you :) 
Here are the document titles
Untitled Document (sorry) 
Beneath a Boundless Sky
Celrond Arranged Marriage AU
To Partake
Celrondir Slowburn Longfic
Gimme Sugar Baby
Stranger Things Crossover
Grief for Sadboi Thrandy :( 
The Care and Feeding of Your Peredhil
No pressure tags for: @jaz-the-bard @raointean @valasania-the-pale @niennawept @the-commonplace-book @ellrond @founder-of-imladris @creativity-of-death & @greyjedijaneite
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runawaymun ¡ 2 years ago
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I feel like we can’t not ask about Elrond for the most recent ask game you reblogged, number one you love talking about him and number two your hcs and characterization for him are always [chef’s kiss]
1: sexuality headcanon
Bisexual vers who has the reverse bisexual syndrome I do: he's attracted to like every man that walks the earth and then exactly one unattainable woman who was nice to him once ten years ago. (Celebrian)
2: otp
Celrond <3 (closely currently followed by Brimbrond (Celebrimbor x Elrond) -- but that's on a VERY close tier with QPR!Gilrond and Celrondir)
3: brotp
Tie between Elrond & Erestor and Elrond & Celeborn right now, but this question always fluctuates for me. I've really been in a second age Elrond mood thanks to Rings of Power lately and have been thinking a LOT about what it must have been like to have been him at that period in his life when he was so utterly immersed in a purely Elvish and presumably overwhelmingly Noldorin court. Did anybody understand his sense of temperature? His need for sleep? His sense of time? His ability to get ill? Did he accept those things about himself and stand up for himself to get his needs met or did he try and keep up with everyone else (hint: in my head it's the latter). How lonely must his existence at Gil's court truly have been in the early half of the second age? Anyway -- I headcannon Erestor as Peredhel, and headcannon that Elrond met him sometime around this time and that it was somewhat of a revelation for him to discover that a) there are other people like him and b) that maybe some of the things that make him 'faulty' or 'eccentric' by Elvish standards are really just human (or maia) traits and actually are just fine & he shouldn't be suppressing them.
And then there's Celeborn, who I headcannon has a strong vested interest in helping Elrond come to terms with his Sindarin heritage, which largely goes ignored (but that Elrond seems to overwhelmingly align himself with in the books). If we're going with a kidnap fam timeline, then Elrond was probably raised to be ragingly culturally Noldorin, and then Gil's court as previously stated is super Noldorin as well and I headcannon that most people there tend to think of him in terms of "Earendillion" -- thus again, stamping him "Noldorin". I think a lot about the fact that he probably had a Sindarin/Doriathrim accent/subdialect prior to the Sack of Sirion, and probably developed either a Feanorian accent or at the very least a strong Noldorin accent by the time he would have met Celeborn. He's got a mixed heritage and possibly doesn't know very much about the Sindarin half early on in his life, and so I think Celeborn really took him under his wing at that point and had a vested interest in helping him learn about Doriath, and Elwing, and Melian & Luthien and Sindarin cultural in general.
4: notp
I'm extremely fond of Elrond in all sorts of relationships and various constellations and polycules because he has so much love to give! But in terms of relationships I think I actively avoid/dislike, it's Gilrond in any dynamic which is romantic (because I headcannon Gil as ragingly aro), and tbh just...most Gilrond portrayals, because most often the power disparity is either romanticised or sexualised and I that's just...a personal squick for me. Ignored is less squicky but I still just don't really like reading their dynamic unless the author has taken some form of effort to reconcile the power disparity. Gil's the high king & Elrond is his herald. Gil could literally ruin his life and there are clear issues of consent in a dynamic like that. It's extremely easy for that to turn into something super unhealthy or dangerous so fucking fast and it always makes me a bit squeamish about the ship. There are ways around it and ways to resolve it in a healthy way, but that does take a lot of work and forethought. Most Gilrond fics tend to gloss over the potential issues of consent and just sexualize the power disparity and that's so gross to me sorryyyy.
5: first headcanon that pops into my head
He deals with really bad sleep paralysis because he's subject to a weird combo of elf-sleep (walking the paths of memory) and true-sleep (actual dream-states), on top of the curse gift of foresight which results in some wack ass visions.
6: favorite line from this character
Books it's a tie between: "Elrond laughed" and “Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” and "“Elrond’s house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. �� Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell." (none of these are strictly lines and this last one is not strictly from the character but shhhhh)
In the films: "You should have stayed dead" (From PJ's hobbit. That scene is so self-indulgent for me asdlkghjkl)
In Rings of Power: "I swore an oath to Durin. To some, that may now hold little weight. But in my esteem, it is by such things our very souls are bound." (meanwhile me screaming at the screen NO OATHS!! NO OATHS!! YOU DUMB BITCH!!!! but this line still hits me so hard)
7: one way in which I relate to this character
@the-commonplace-book pointed out the other day that a lot of my headcannons surrounding Elrond's differences due to his peredhel heritage and how he (and others) responds to it and struggles to accept his own limits are a rather good metaphor for chronic illness and disability and I haven't been the same since & feel very Seen (derogatory).
8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character
Please stop making people bully u into self care sweetie it's so Cringe.
9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?
cinnamon roll cinnamon roll cinnamon roll
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runawaymun ¡ 10 months ago
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I wish you would write a fic where Elrond and Celebrimbor and Celebrian and Gil-galad and everyone gets to be happy and platonically/romantically in love.
Also, To Partake is lovely and I keep rereading bits and on three occasions this week I wishes there was a podfic of it so I could listen while cleaning.
An everybody-lives-nobody-dies polyamory AU would be the loveliest most self indulgent thing I think I would ever write. The idea of intrigues me and I feel like it would be a lot of fun, though if I were to do it I probably would write it more along the lines of my Silm interpretation of the characters (especially Gil). A couple oneshots would be fun.
I already have a vague concept in my head of a Valinor AU that includes a Celrondir + Gilrond OT4 situation. (With Cel and Lindir being sexual-romantic partners with Elrond, and everybody being platonic partners with Gil), so daydreaming about various OT4s that involve Elrond is not outside my realm of indulgence :D
He just deserves a polycule!!
Also with regards to a podfic I would love it honestly if someone podficced To Partake! I don't know that I trust my own reading and pronunciation to do it myself, but maybe someday...
Tell me on anon (or not) what fic you wish I'd write
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sanisse ¡ 2 years ago
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& good morning to you! Mwahaha 😈 yES Elrond loves watching his partner Celebrían orgasm and so he definitely has this conflict bc he wants to see Celebrían orgasm in this scenario (and by default Lindir obvi bc he’s the one getting his dick ridden and hole plowed by Cel and her strap respectively) but at the same time, the denial is so sweet bc Cel gets to cum as many times as she wants but Lindir? No, that pretty little cock isn’t allowed to spill seed until Elrond says so.
Ohohoho okay so Cel is actually there. I was thinking they were both mutually fantasizing about Cel (which i suppose this still applies to).
But Cel actually being there is tasty. Because the great thing about straps? You can swap out the cock size
This adds even more to the illusion that Lindir’s being taken by multiple different people.
Also YES Cel can come as many times as she wants & Lindir is not allowed to come until either she or Elrond say so, because this dynamic feels very much like the two of them topping him together.
(Does he get to come at all? Elrond likes to indulge him but also Lindir really is a mess for being fucked and then left high and dry — with aftercare obviously— but it makes him feel that much more used)
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runawaymun ¡ 3 years ago
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I need more Celrondir, I need more Celebrían getting loved on by her two husbands (bc Lindir is certainly husband material, he definitely has that potential). Whenever he sees Celebrían, he’s suddenly “Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.” (This could go for Lindir or Elrond btw; tbh it’s both.)
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bestie I am literally writing Celrondir content as we speak.
When will I post it? Someday I promise !!
Lindir is absolutely husband material. he's smol husband material. 10/10 cooks Cel breakfast and brings it to her in bed. Will bring her whatever snacks she wants at literally any time. Oh you're cold????? Elrond's the kind of husband that'd lend her his coat/sweater/extra layer (and they're similar sizes so it fits Cel pretty well) but Lindir's kinda small so he disappears and comes back with blankets and will snuggle. 
both boys are really good at braiding hair and its kind of a tie but it really depends on what hairstyles Cel wants tbh. sometimes its a team effort.
Elrond is actively affectionate. boy will smother his wife if she doesn’t stop him. casual touches galore. forehead/neck/shoulder/wrist/palm kisses. come lie on top of me and take a nap and ill play with your hair. do you exist? im sneaking up behind you and hugging you now. 
Lindir is responsively affectionate. reading? let me join you. oh you touched my face? insta palm kiss. oh you hugged me? ima hug you even harder. can i-- can i--sorry--hey is it ok if--um--maybe i kissed you---if not it's fine--sorry--or you can run me over with your car--thats ok too---love you uwu
honestly idk how Cel gets anything done with these two tbh with the amount that they dote
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runawaymun ¡ 3 years ago
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And some Celrondir doodles, because lately I can’t stop thinking about these three 😫💕
Re: top right, same Lindir & CelebrĂ­an. Fucking Same.
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runawaymun ¡ 3 years ago
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AAAAHH I love that Lindir is kinda smol but Celebrían is smoler so she’s just dwarfed between smol-ish husband and giant husband (fat mood tbh)
Ok yes yes yes! Except that I do headcannon Lindir being the smolest of these three! Purely because a) I love the idea of Elrond and Celebrían being somewhat the same height (they share clothes), and b) Cel’s parents are both really really really tall so it just makes sense that she is and c) tall/tall is an underrated ship dynamic
Cel IS a little smoler than Elrond but Lindir is smoler than both of them and honestly it just adds to Lindir’s “mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry—“
Basically Elrond’s tallest. Cel comes up to his nose or so. Lindir, however, I picture being like a head and shoulders shorter than Elrond. Lmao. A babie 🥺 he’s not short for humans he’s just kind of small for an elf. And not even that small tbh it’s just that Elrond is a long-ass neck-ass pipe cleaner noodle.
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Average Noldorin height is somewhere around 6′ HOWEVER. Elrond is a tall-ass motherfucker due to his Maia genes so I tend to envision him somewhere around 7′. Cel’s just under 7′ (like 6′8″?) Lindir is Bret Mackenzie’s height. So 6′. Again he’s not short by human standards at all. Elrond’s just a noodle. 
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runawaymun ¡ 3 years ago
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Okay consider : Elrond x Celebrían x Lindir. Lindir cherishing his Lady (they’re the same height too, though Brí’s just a taaaad bit smoler than him) bc he strikes me as a very devoted and selfless lover, and then of course Elrond joins in to also worship his Celebrían.
This reads as slightly spicy for me for some reason but in any case:
100% this is how I’d imagine it to go. Lindir is just a giant ball of devotion and affection— doesn’t matter who he’s in a relationship with. And I love the concept of these three as an OT3 because you’re so correct, so much of it would just be the two boys doting on and utterly spoiling Cel. And she’d just soak it all in tbh. She’s pretty devoted herself but she really strikes me as the type of person where being doted upon comes very easily to her (whereas I feel like both Elrond and Lindir are the opposite, to varying degrees). Not in a selfish way, but in a very secure way. She’s comfortable receiving affection and doesn’t experience guilt with it.
Of course this means, naturally, that there are moments where Cel completely flips the script and enlists Elrond to absolutely smother Lindir with affection— which completely embarrasses Lindir beyond repair. But then on the converse I feel like whenever it’s Elrond’s turn to be spoiled it’s always a bit of a battle because he’s just like ????? — seems like the kind of guy that wants to take care of everyone else and feels guilty if he gets doted on/looked after, so Cel and Lindir have to team up and coax him into it over a number of days.
Ugh I’d die for this ot3 and this ask is such a good opportunity for cute headcannons thank youuuuu — one of these days I should do an ot3 sketch
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runawaymun ¡ 3 years ago
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Strawberry Scones | Elrond/Celebrían/Lindir OT3 
For @polyshipweek 2022, for day 5 - “kitchen table”. I’m late to this lmao but like I’m always late to these things. I didn’t want to completely miss out on a perfectly good excuse to write some Celrondir content. 
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Sindarin translation: mĂŽr mĂ­n - our treasure
“Is something burning?” Celebrían asked from where she stood at the kitchen bench, slicing strawberries.
Horrified, Elrond turned on his heel to check the bread oven. The scones at the back were, indeed, turning a very dark shade of brown. He hissed a curse and reached in to fish them out, dropping them one by one on the bench.
CelebrĂ­an gave him a longsuffering, dry look.
“That’s what that is for.” She gestured to the wooden baker’s paddle hanging on the wall.
“Waste of time,” Elrond said, blowing on his scorched fingers and muttering a healing cantrip.
He’d gotten so focused on the hollandaise sauce for the eggs benedict that he’d forgotten to rotate the scones at the correct time, but at least breakfast didn’t look to be utterly unsalvageable. Celebrían reached over and picked through the pastries. Most of them were still perfectly good, with nice crunchy rosy-brown crusts. She selected those out of the pile and began to split them, enlisting Elrond to whip the cream.
The sun was only just rising over the peaks of the Misty Mountains as they climbed the stairs to their bedroom, trays in hand. Lindir was still fast asleep in bed, curled beneath the eiderdown duvet, dark hair fanned out on his pillow, face flushed from a long night’s sleep. They tiptoed in as quietly as they could and set out the trays on the bedside table.
“He’s perfect,” Celebrían murmured with a fond look cast Lindir’s way as she poured three cups of tea and sweetened each.
Elrond merely hummed in agreement and sank onto the bed to press a warm kiss to Lindir’s cheek.
Lindir stirred, leaning into the touch. His eyes fluttered open. He turned to give Elrond a sleepy smile and mindlessly sought a hug, which Elrond drew him into without a second thought.
Then, it registered.
Lindir’s face pinched in that cute way it always did and he observed a bit groggily: “You— you are already dressed?” He worked himself upright with a rising note of panic in his voice, “ Oh! Oh dear. I’ve overslept. I apologize—“
“—you have not,” Celebrían reassured with a little laugh. “We were up early.”
“We made you breakfast,” Elrond said.
Lindir’s eyes grew saucer-wide and luminous. His cheeks stained pink. He sat up just a little more and spied the trays on the bedside table. Celebrían handed him a steaming cup of tea and sat on the edge of the bed. Lindir took it, looking thoroughly befuddled.
“It’s not my begetting day,” he said, twisting around to look up at Elrond.
“No,” Elrond agreed, leaning against the headboard and guiding Lindir to rest back against his chest. “But you’ve been overworking yourself of late—“
“—if I’ve been neglecting anything—“ Lindir began anxiously.
“You haven’t,” Elrond interrupted gently. “We only thought that you ought to have someone look after you for a change.”
Lindir opened his mouth, no doubt to find some other reason to protest, but Celebrían pressed a finger to it before he could get very far and said: “Hush. Let us spoil you, mîr mín. I can think of no one in this city more deserving of it than you.”
“Elrond—” Lindir attempted.
Elrond chuckled and kissed his cheek. “I am spoiled by you both. Rest. I will command it if I must.”
That seemed to assuage him. Lindir’s spine melted. He took a sip of his tea, then mumbled into the rim of his cup: “Are those strawberry scones?”
Celebrían and Elrond exchanged a knowing smile. Celebrían reached over to pick one up and set it on a plate and held it out of him. “We know how much you like them.”
Lindir accepted the plate, blushing an even deeper shade of red, looking pleased, and leaned over to set his teacup on the table so he could eat. They spend the morning that way: Lindir curled up into Elrond’s side, Celebrían opposite them both, crosslegged on the bed, enjoying the scones and eggs’ benedict and tea with more sugar than was probably strictly good for them. When Lindir stirred again to begin habitually collecting the dishes, Elrond stayed his hand and did it for him.
“Might we…?” Lindir fidgeted with his hands. Celebrían and Elrond were patient. At last he landed on: “Might we stay like this? Just for a little while?”
Elrond just smiled and pressed a kiss to his forehead. “Today? We will stay just like this for as long as you wish, my Lindir.”
Lindir’s shy little smile burst into something radiant. When he took the last strawberry scone for himself without asking first, Elrond and Celebrían counted themselves victorious.
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