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we do NOT spend enough time discussing the implication that Ost-in-Edhil, and by extension all of Eregion, was for several centuries ruled by a meritocracy based specifically on skill at crafting. What an absurd political system. #onlynoldorwould
#the silmarillion#celebrimbor#eregion#ost in edhil#gwaith y mirdain#onlynoldorwould is a periodic trending hashtag on elf twitter that always sparks a massive flame war (ha)#second age shenaniganry#lotr#lord of the rings
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Gentle times in Ost-In-Edhil
#eregion#narvibrimbor#narvi x celebrimbor#celebrimbor#narvi#silm#the silmarillion#my art#saintstarsart#silm fanart#ost in edhil#poor tyelpe so much suffering to come..#muahhaha
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Ost-in-Edhil (2024)
Limited edition lino print
21x21 cm
My version of Celebrimbor's city before its fall.
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“Who is He?”
First meeting of the members of Ost In Edhil and their leader Celebrimbor with a mysterious figure called Annatar
#annatar#celebrimbor#Sauron#mairon#gorthaur the cruel#tyelpë#tolkien#silmarillion#lotr#lord of the rings#j r r tolkien#tyelperinquar#eregion#ost in edhil#digital art#artists on tumblr#comic
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So obviously there are a lot of things I would have done differently if I had been in charge of Amazon's Rings of Power show. I could go on at length about any of them, but...
One little, little thing I would do?
I would have a cat there, in Eregion. Just in the background of various scenes, nbd, hanging out in the smithy and stuff, meandering around, curling up in Celebrimbor's lap... Not something to focus on: just a little bit of background flavor, you know, show that Celebrimbor is a softy who likes animals, or maybe it's good for the smiths' morale to have an animal around; whatever...
But. I would make sure that the cat is never ever ever seen on screen in any scene that Annatar is in. (Or perhaps sometimes is seen at the start of a scene where Annatar enters later, but disappears from the camera's sight before he arrives.)
You pan in on the smithy, and there's a cat lounging on a cushion on Celebrimbor's desk, as cats do.
Maybe it even bats or sniffs at some of the prototypes/paperwork, you know, normal cat stuff. It's certainly not interested in what Celebrimbor is working on haha. It's certainly not reading the bluprints, don't be silly, stop anthropomorphizing the cat, it's just a bit of set dressing, okay? Obviously.
Scene starts, Celebrimbor does some work, maybe gives the cat some chin-scritches or maybe is too preoccupied to notice it's even there; no big deal. Doesn't really matter. We're focusing on his work designing the Rings, okay?
So, as he works we pan across, the cat isn't there anymore...and Annatar walks over, not having made any grand entrance coming in through the door or anything; just like he's been there all along and now he's coming by for a closer look, how odd that we didn't notice him before! Oh, it's probably just an editing thing, they probably just cut-out his entrance for pacing reasons nbd.
And hey that's funny, you don't see the cat again until he leaves...
No one in the show would ever reference this. No one would, in fact, ever mention or name the cat or draw any specific direct attention to its presence, save perhaps the occasional scritch of its little head in passing. It's not a character, it's just a little cat who hangs out in the smithy. Doesn't seem to belong to anyone in particular. Probably a stray.
(Weird how you don't see it again during any of the final fighting when Annatar/Sauron's busy doing his Endgame Shit, but hey: it's a cat, it's probably just too smart to stick around during all that chaos. No doubt it bolted for safety days ago. It's not like it has anything important that it'd be doing during all that. It's just a cat, for Eru's sake!)
Now, the question is, do we list the cat(s) who played the role in the credits as just "smithy cat," or do we go full wink-and-nudge and give the cat its name?
Either way of course: we'd all know.
#tevildo#sauron#annatar#rings of power (tv shop)#rop#ost in edhil#my writing#my stuff#lotr headcanons#lotr#tv shows#adaptations#lotr adaptations
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Highlights of the Lindon delegation visiting ost-in-edhil
Elrond: I'm living out my worst nightmare of being the voice of reason
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Annatar: Do you mind if I come in?
Elrond: Not at all. Do you mind if I leave?
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Sauron: From now on, you’ll have to refer to me as “Annatar, lord of the flame”
Elrond: Hey, lord of the flame, your robes are on fire.
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Elrond: Mind if I squeeze in there with you?
Sauron: Isn't there someone else you can annoy? Friends, family.... kinslayers
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Annatar: ready to use the little half elf’s mixed heritage and upbringing against him for his own means
Annatar : I know what you are
Elrond: Definitely dealing with a number of issues but actually pretty at peace with who he is and where he came from
Elrond: Yeah, I know what I am too
Annatar:
Elrond: and what?
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Celebrimbor: Okay, im gonna go check on my apprentices, if you two can manage not to kill each other while im gone
Elrond: oh please
Annatar: Some of us arent children
Celebrimbor: (leaving) uh huh
Annatar: Eat shit and die
Elrond: Yes, fuck you
#incorrect silmarillion quotes#silmarillion#tolkien#annatar#saurin#elrond#celebrimbor#Feral elrond#ost in edhil
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I'M NOT READY OK.
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In those days the smiths of Ost-in-Edhil surpassed all that they had contrived before; and they took thought, and they made Rings of Power. Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
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#trop#rings of power#forge#ost in edhil#idk if i posted these and they dont really match up as a set so here you go#p#mine#gwaith-i-mírdain#eregion#gif
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VENI, VIDI, VICI 👀
I know, the Dork Lord is a naughty boy 🥰 (poor Celebrimbor 🥺)
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From Ost-in-Edhil, the city of the Elves, the highroad ran to the west gate of Khazad-dûm, for a friendship arose between Dwarves and Elves, such as has never elsewhere been, to the enrichment of both those peoples.
"The Silmarillion" - J.R.R. Tolkien
#book quote#the silmarillion#jrr tolkien#dwarves#elves#friendship#enrichment#lifelong friends#ost in edhil#khazad dum#rings of power#third age#cultural exchange
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Silm question of the day, open to all suggestions: if Annatar had stayed, well, Annatar, stayed content in Eregion and maybe married Celebrimbor, what sort of Weird (Evil) Maia Shit would everyone in the country, or at least in Ost-in-Edhil, have slowly been frog-boiled into thinking was completely normal?
Top of the list has gotta be an arguably unhealthy comfort with the sensation of being watched. It just stops raising the hairs on the backs of anyone's necks. Feel like someone is staring hotly, somewhat judgmentally, over your shoulder while you work? Annatar must be in his tower again! Yeah, he likes to be tall. Like a cat, yeah.
I think also... It's not that punctuality becomes a big cultural value, nor keeping a deadline, because this city is still dominated by the sort of person who goes on impulsive 4-day creative work binges. But there is a Community Calendar. And if you put something on the Community Calendar and DON'T keep that appointment, to which you committed, with perfect punctuality, then Valar help you because nobody on this continent will (and everyone knows the Valar don't do shit on this continent).
#the silmarillion#annatar#sauron#celebrimbor#lotr#lord of the rings#ost in edhil#silvergifting#second age shenaniganry#my fic#rise and fall
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That moment when the infuriating sister of that elf you once killed walks in on you trying to win over her stupidlovely nephew
An afternoon in Ost-in-edhil
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#NOT THE UMBRELLA!!#charles edwards#rings of power#the rings of power#trop#rop#celebrimbor#I usually censor the names of the non-public-figure people in screenshots but George here appears to be related to Charlie Vickers and even#- if he's not he is followed by a LOT of the cast#anyway I love that Rich People Noldo umbrella it does absolute shit for rain#it's probably a parasol lmao#eregion#ost-in-edhil
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What do we think they were thinking? I've also seen the theory that he never actually made it out the door
#rings of power memes#trop memes#rings of power spoilers#trop spoilers#trop#rings of power#memes#ost-in-edhil#seige of eregion#celebrimbor#annatar#sauron#mind control
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I'm working on some Background Timeline Nonsense for my Celebrimbor In The Fellowship AU fic and trying to put together stuff in a way that both makes sense and is fun (and reconciles some of the Unfinished Tales mess). I've already blathered at poor @babybat98 about this, but I figure I might as well subject the rest of you all to it share it here too, in case anyone has Thoughts or Suggestions:
A Timeline of the Lords of the Woodland Elves.
506 F.A. Doriath is sacked (about 30 years before the Third Kinslaying at Sirion).
By 511 F.A., refugees from Gondolin and a few Drúadain joined them there, and by 525 Earendil and Elwing were wed and ruling the Havens of Sirion.
539 F.A., the last of the Fëanorians show-up in Sirion and do their usual silmaril-slaughter, and Elwing jumps off the cliff. The Havens are left in ruins, and Morgoth has control of all Beleriand, blah blah blah.
545 F.A. the Host of the Valar land in Beleriad. The War of Wrath begins.
590 F.A. Morgoth defeated, War of Wrath ends, First Age ends. *Galadriel probably doesn't actually marry Celeborn until now, possibly because of the whole "don't marry during war" thing the Calaquendi tend to do? unclear, because everything involving them is unclear lmao
1 S.A. the Grey Havens are built in Lindon, the only place in Beleriand that really survived the War of Wrath.
By 20 S.A. Galadriel and Celeborn leave Lindon, where Gil-galad is now king (probably crowned because of Galadriel's influence somehow? Unclear, again!). Galadriel and Celeborn go to Eriador and dwell near Lake Nenuial, where they are accounted "the Lord and Lady of the Eldar in Eriador" according to one version of the Unfinished Tales. They have a lot of Noldor, Grey-elves, and Green-elves with them at this time. Now for the fun backstory stuff...what if we say that Celeborn, Oropher, and Amdír were all basically BFFs from their youth in Doriath, and will remain thus for many years before the eventual splintering around 750 S.A.?
So, as of S.A. 10-20 when Galadriel and Celeborn leave Lindon, what if we say that Amdír and Oropher are with them also at this point, and with them their sons? They can be part of the company of mingled Noldor and Iathrim who are mentioned there at Lake Nenuial, with Celeborn (relative of Thingol) and Galadriel (sister of Finrod) as the "highest ranking" of their little quartet, and also the ones (especially Galadriel) who care the most about rank/leadership, and thus fall naturally into that role both in behavior and in the eyes of everyone around them, while Amdír and Oropher are more advisors/etc (maybe they end up in charge of guarding everybody, as the Warriors of the group). Amroth could be as young as 110 right now if he was just a wee little lad when Doriath was destroyed, barely an adult, or at any rate easily less than 200 yet. Perhaps Amdir never made it to Sirion at all, and only rejoined his son after the War of Wrath? (Perhaps Amdir's mom died in the Kinslaying, like Nellglind?) Regardless, Galadriel and/or Celeborn could have been doing most of the looking-after of him during the War either way, and thus we get Amroth as sort of "their kid" like he was in that draft, while not actually being their son which wouldn't make sense. Maybe Celeborn looked after both Amroth and Thranduil while the other adults were involved more in the fighting, given that picturing either Amdir or Oropher NOT fighting if they were still in Beleriand at this point is difficult (albeit not impossible: they could always have gone "fuck this shit, this is a Calaquendi Problem, you deal with it") and Galadriel is The Mighty One while Celeborn is more chill (and because I like not having The Woman be the one doing the child-minding lol). Alternatively, they could have all fought to varying degrees, with young Thranduil the one charged with looking after younger Amroth? idk most of the War of Wrath is pretty hand-wavy even in Tolkien's stuff so this can stay vague lol
At any rate, we pick-up the thread with our next Known(ish) event:
300 S.A. is when Celebrían is probably born. At this point, her parents are presumably still in Eriador. So, we could have them all living together as a little found family unit of survivors at Lake Nenuial, with Amroth and Thranduil acting as sort of older brothers/cousins to Celebrian. Perhaps she has more of a brotherly relationship with Amroth, who is younger, and a little more distance between her and Thranduil, because he's so much older (and lived through the trauma of everything more directly)? He sees himself as the Sensible And Mature One who has to look out for the younger/more naive kids, perhaps? At some point, of course, there must be some kind of a falling-out of some sort between Oropher and Galadriel/Celeborn, because we need to have some reason as the driving factor (combined with the increasing numbers of Dwarves in Moria, which we know Oropher wasn't pleased by; hello Doriath Trauma Round One!) for him to do the whole "moved his people north three times" from the original location of Amon Lanc in order to avoid being near Galadriel and Celeborn in Lórien. Perhaps the falling-out can be traced back to Ost-in-Edhil somehow?
750 S.A. is approximately when Eregion is founded, and construction is begun on Ost-in-Edhil. 750 S.A. is also around when we're told that Oropher and Amdir took up lordship of their respective Silvan lands (although I'm already deviating from those details a bit because fuck colonialism lol; but that's easy enough to do and still claim canon-compliance due to the vagueness of all of this in "canon" anyway, so we'll still use that as the rough date of when the Sindar refugees came to Laurelindórenan/Greenwood, and just say the whole "king" thing in Greenwood happened later and the Noldorian historians never caught the nuances, shhh) So if we extrapolate from all that... What if the falling-out happens because of Eregion? What if Amdir and Oropher are not about to accept an open and friendly relationship with the local Dwarves, after what happened to Thingol and Doriath; and Galadriel, with her foresight and her stubbornness and her Noldorin love of craft (and the fact that her first main trauma was Alqualondë long before the Sindar were scarred by the Battle of a Thousand Caves), refuses to let her Goals™️ be held hostage to their grudges and trauma, and insists that the only way forward for this land is hand-in-hand with the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm. Celeborn reluctantly sides with his wife (even though he loathes dwarves as much as any of them) over his friends, and Amdir and Oropher go off in a huff with those others of the Elves of Eriador who aren't interested in More Noldorin Bullshit, crossing the mountains and joining with the Silvan Elves in the east. So:
750 S.A. Amdir and Oropher leave with a group of followers, while Galadriel and Celeborn found Ost-in-Edhil with Celebrimbor, the two of them being taken as Lord and Lady of Eregion while he's (presumably) just in charge of the smiths for now.
1000 S.A. Sauron, not wanting to start shit with the western elves or Numenorians right not because they're too strong (and presumably just not giving a shit about the little Wood-elves in their forests), beings building Barad-dûr.
1200 S.A. Sauron tries to beguile the Elves of Lindon, and Gil-galad tells him to fuck-off. He tries again in Eregion, and despite Galadriel going "big nope!" the Gwaith-i-Mírdain there welcome him.
1350 S.A. Sauron manages to get Galadriel ousted from Ost-in-Edhil, and Celebrimbor becomes lord of the place. Galadriel and Celebrían leave via Moria, and spend a while in Khazad-dûm with their dwarven friends before making their way eventually to their old friend Amdir and foster-son/brother Amroth in Lórien, where they are welcomed, and Galadriel and Amdir reconcile (possibly enthusiastically, possibly awkwardly) but Celeborn, refusing to step foot in a dwarven kingdom, stays in Eregion, where he is "disregarded" by Celebrimbor. So I like to picture him skulking about as That Grumpy Old Man muttering and scowling at everybody as they pat him on the head and go "there, there grandpa" and whisper apologies to whatever dwarf he's offended today.
1500 S.A. by this time, the Seven and the Nine are made, and Sauron leaves to go make the One Ring in secret in Mordor.
1600 S.A. Sauron makes the One Ring and proclaims himself as Sauron, and ready for war. Celebrimbor goes OH FUCKSHIT and runs through Moria to consult with Galadriel in Lórien. He gives her Nenya, and she convinces him to send the other two to Gil-galad in Lindon, and get them the fuck out of Ost-in-Edhil.
1605 S.A. Sauron's immediate attempt to start said war is potentially delayed by the first two of the Istari, the Blue Wizards, who in a much later draft of Tolkien's actually came to Middle-earth during the Second Age, long before the rest of them, rather than all coming over together. Instead, he had them come over with Glorfindel, and while Glorfindel hung around to help Gil-galad et al they made their way East, to try and save the tribes of Men who had fallen under Morgoth's worship, and to discover where Sauron was hiding, and work against him. I think I want to go with that version, simply because I like the idea of Glorfindel coming back with some of the Istari? But I ALSO like the idea of him having fought in the Last Alliance, which means I need him to come over before Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast do in the Third Age. So this splits the difference nicely! So, as of 1600: the valar have gone "oh fuck!" and thrown two maia and one reborn elf on a boat and thrown them back to Middle-earth to clean-up the leftovers of the mess left by the War of Wrath when they failed to drag Morgoth's most powerful lieutenant back to face judgement in Valinor OOPSIES, presumably because they figured out that Shit Was Hitting The Fan thanks to the whole One Ring Thing being big enough to be Noticed By The Powers lol Anyway, thanks to Morinehtar and Rómestámo being fucking badass, Sauron's plans for war are delayed several years, and Celebrimbor has time to hide the Three and presumably to warn the Dwarves about the Seven. Ooh, what if we say that he's been spending a lot of this time trying to devise some way of un-linking the Rings from the One Ring? He apparently has the Nine with him when Eregion falls, and Sauron just takes those, but the Seven and the Three aren't there; maybe he was working on the Nine, and knew the Seven were safe in Khazad-dûm where his dwarven smith-friends were doing the same there? And that's why he never tried to destroy them: he was still holding out hope they could be saved, be fixed. That he wouldn't have to destroy the greatest things he ever made, and all the hopes he put into them. He just needed a little more time...
1693 S.A. the War of the Elves and Sauron (finally) begins.
1695 S.A. Sauron slinks through the Gap of Rohan, thus avoiding the Elves in the Greenwood and Lórien, and invades Eriador. Thanks to the Númenóreans having cut down many of the Trees of Minhiriath and Enedwaith, the people in these lands welcomed Sauron's conquest and let him pass without trouble. (Well done, Númenor! Didn't anyone ever teach you deforestation is bad?) Celeborn leads the forces from Eregion (presumably having said "I told you so" to Celebrimbor a few times) and they manage to defeat the first wave of Sauron's army, but are then overwhelmed and forced back to Ost-in-Edhil. Gil-galad hears about this and sends Elrond leading a force from Lindon to help, and also sends messages to Númenor pleading for help. Nobody answers (men, pah!). Elrond's force is too small, and can't break-through to get to Eregion to help.
1697 S.A. Ost-in-Edhil falls. Celebrimbor is tortured into giving up the location of the Seven, but dies without revealing the Three. Sauron, not being an entire idiot, guesses that they're most likely with Galadriel and Gil-galad anyway, but is pissy about being resisted, and turns Celebrimbor into a banner that he carries into battle. Elrond's tiny army is about to be overrun when the Dwarves of Khazad-dûm attack Sauron from the rear, along with the force of elves that Amroth has led through Moria from Lórien, (because whatever Issues™️ his father might have with Dwarves, he's not about to let his foster-father die). This allows Elrond to gather the survivors of Ost-in-Edhil, including presumably Celeborn, and flee. The Dwarves are driven back as well, but they shut the Doors of Moria and Sauron can't get in. Haha, thwarted by Celebrimbor and his previous sweetheart, sucks to be you Sauron! The Doors of Durin are apparently not opened again until the Fellowship of the Ring comes to them (although that doesn't make sense, because Gandalf and Aragorn both passed through Moria at least once before LotR, so they must have been opened at some point; but perhaps the text only means they were not left open again after this point, and is not referring to when/if they were ever opened from inside by someone walking through and out?). The retreating elves found the stronghold of Rivendell, to which many of the survivors of Eregion flee. (Celeborn, presumably, says "I told you so" a lot at this point too, but not often enough for them to murder him.) The rest scatter, some fleeing Middle-earth altogether and some disappearing into the Wild with others fleeing through Khazad-dûm (before the Doors are shut, presumably) thanks to their dwarven friends, and make their way eventually to Lórien, where they join their fellows who left Ost-in-Edhil earlier and merge with the Silvans and Sindar there.
by 1700 S.A. Sauron has overrun all of Eriador except for Rivendell, which is besieged, and Lindon, where Gil-galad is also barely holding him off at the River Lhûn and Mithlond. Finally the Nûmenorian fleet arrives, and kicks Sauron's ass all the way back to Tharbad, although he burns the forests of Minhiriath and Enedwaith as he goes. He gets caught in a pincer between the main force and a smaller one that Ciryatur landed at Gwathló behind him, and barely escaped "with his bodyguard" to Dagorlad. It is unclear at this point if Sauron actually HAS any or all of the Seven, or just knows where they are; sources say that Durin at least was given his Ring by Celebrimbor himself, so perhaps Sauron never actually manages to collect all the Seven at this point? but still has his original influence over them. He does have the Nine, we know, because he gathered them up when he came to Ost-in-Edhil and defeated Celebrimbor on the steps of the House of the Mírdain.
1701 S.A. the first Council is held in Imladris, when Galadriel and Celebrían come looking for Celeborn and meet-up with all the other leaders of the various forces of Elves and Men. They decide to make Rivendell the new elvish stronghold in Eriador, as Eregion is in ruins and remains thus. Gil-galad at this point gives Vilya to Elrond (it's unclear when Cirdan gets Narya, because of course is it; he might already have it, or he might not get it until Gil-galad marches to War in Mordor, although wtf was he thinking leaving Narya behind when he went to war just when he would need its power most? Gil-galad wtf mate???) and declares him his vice-regent. This is also when Elrond and Celebrían meet for the first time. (Presumably at this point her foster-brother Amroth teases her mercilessly about her very obvious crush on Gil-galad's pet peredhel, and she probably smacks the crap out of him for being a jerk.) At some point after this, Galadriel and Celeborn (and Celebrían presumably) leave Rivendell to live near the sea, probably because Galadriel was apparently "striken with sea-longing" the moment she put Nenya on. They go to Belfalas, which will be later called Dol Amroth, and apparently visit Lórien at least twice more before the end of the Second Age, but we don't know anything else about them here.
At this point, there isn't much relevant canon information until the Last Alliance happens, since most of what's going on of import now is happening in Numenor, but let's hit the highlights in case we want to expand on any of this later.
2251 S.A. the Nazgûl appear.
3262 S.A. Sauron taken to Numenor as a prisoner.
3319 S.A. Numenor sunk, Sauron flees back to Middle-earth, and the world is reshaped.
3429 S.A. Sauron seizes Minas Ithil.
3430 S.A. formation of the Last Alliance.
3431 S.A. the Last Alliance marches to Rivendell.
3434 S.A. the march to Mordor, and the Battle of Daglorlad, where Oropher and Amdir both die. Siege of Barad-dûr begins.
3441 S.A. Sauron defeated (for now), war is over. Thranduil and Amdir go home with their scant surviving forces.
#(sorry about the wonky formatting; tumblr is weird)#greenwood#mirkwood#lothlorien#lorien#galadriel#celeborn#oropher#amdir#amroth#thranduil#celebrian#lotr headcanons#lotr fanfiction#celebrimbor fellowship au#sauron#last alliance#celebrimbor#ost in edhil#rings of power#gil galad#elrond#blue wizards#rómestámo#morinehtar#glorfindel#unfinished tales#lotr drafts#lotr#khazad dum
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