#silvergifting au

[transmairon]

[pimsri]

My Annatar and Celebrimbor, but drawn in Rings of Power's outfit :)

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Ok but remember all those Valinor fics where Celebrimbor doesn’t have any official power? Like sometimes he’s the Lord of House Feanor but that’s it?

Ok so imagine that the Valar has to hold Sauron in a little holding cell or something before sending his unhoused ass to the void. So for a short time, Sauron is just moping in a large glass jar.

Anyway; The Valar allows visitors to The Jar for closure and through a series of events, Celebrimbor ends up visiting The Jar, with supervision.

Sauron is surprised to see Celebrimbor and even more surprised that Celebrimbor is dressed so simply. In the end, Sauron gets the interesting surprise that Celebrimbor isn’t a lord or king in Valinor. He calms down feanorians and does some taxes but that’s it. And we get a funny view of Sauron just, not computing that this brilliant elf who ran a brilliant city hasn’t been given another city to keep doing brilliant things in

Like,

Sauron, confused a fuck: So wait, who’s doing all the inventing and innovation here?

Celebrimbor, amused and a little bitter: Aulë’s folk have always been the scientific minds of Valinor.

Sauron, trying to remember Aulë’s forges and compare: …Eregion was equally as advanced.

Celebrimbor: It was more advanced actually, but y’know. *Vague hand motion* I’m unfit to rule a city now. Because I’m traumatized, mentally fragile, and shouldn’t be in a position of power.

Sauron: What. Why. Oh. Wait, Maedhros ran Himring with greatness.

Celebrimbor: Yes. Yes, he did.

And the people who thought this interaction needed supervision are just like, O.o

I love the idea of ppl in Valinor treating Celebrimbor with fragility and gentleness (to Celeb’s befuddlement) and meanwhile, Sauron is treating Celebrimbor the exact same way as he did in Eregion during their friendship. Like, Sauron respects Celebrimbor’s mental competency and willpower to an utmost degree but all the Valinor elves are refusing to let Celebrimbor have a position of power cuz it might stress him out.

[quinthejester]

Silvergifting Week - Alternate Universe

University AU! after a bit of thinking on what I should do, I ended up settling on this because I was like 'ah, i've just graduated uni may as well', and I though it would fit their characters.

I imagine they're studying at The University of Oxford or something cuz Tolkien was once a professor there, and also I grew up in Oxfordshire and know Oxford city pretty well lmao

Regardless. I think Celebrimbor himself comes from London, and comes from a super mega rich family, so man grew up in a mansion in london (so, absurd amount of money). but also, he's very lowkey about it, and too embarrassed to bring it up. no one assumes he is a rich boy from how he acts.

Mairon on the other hand I imagine being a middle or upper-middle class dude from some rural farm town up north. Mega goody-two shoes, very up himself, kind of insufferable, but also a genius.

anyway, these two end up being massive academic rivals, or at least, they are rivals from Mairon's point of view. Mairon can't stand not being top of his class, so when there is a dude who does better than him, you can trust that he is plotting out hundreds of ways in which he can murder him.

would write a fic if i had the motivation but i do not, so im just gonna leave it at that.

@silvergiftingweek

[minubell]

That last Oneshot for the Nyannatar AU opens the door to some hilarious concepts.

Namely, Sauron will 100% drop his Nyannatar disguise the second Celebrimbor is in serious danger to save him. He’s also not necessarily the best judgement of when elves are on the brink of death. His experience with Morgoth means he views elves as a bit squisher than they truly are. Can you blame him? Morgoth was always rough with his toys.

And I’m not suggesting Celebrimbor is accident prone… but he’s probably very, very unlucky. Unlucky enough to get into trouble a couple more times after the orc-incident. And he’s not sure how this mysterious elf keeps finding him whenever he’s in danger, or why he cannot seem to stay awake long enough to strike up a proper conversation, but it’s infuriating to him. All he wants is to say thank you, but he can’t even get a name!

So… maybe he starts going out of his way to find ways to talk to him. Only, while Sauron is terrible at telling when elves are actually about to die, he’s shockingly good at sniffing out when they aren’t in danger at all. Fake gambits won’t work, and it doesn’t matter how many times Celebrimbor wanders around in the woods nobody shows up to rescue him OR attack him. So Celebrimbor is forced to seek out danger in more and more convoluted ways. Some real damsel in distress type nonsense.

Basically we get the world’s most convoluted game of Chicken where Celebrimbor is toying with his own life just to have a conversation and Sauron is desperately trying to stop him but also doesn’t want to risk his own disguise and REFUSES to actually talk to Celebrimbor even if it is to tell him off for getting kidnapped by a dragon on purpose.

[junk-whunk-punk]

It's becoming an obsession...

...because you can't believe how damn good it is to have one ship th rule them all uh– ONE THREESOME instead of two ships. Good. Good now please put a tutorial in my brain how to draw chub🤝

[flameunquenched]

instead of, you know, working, i am thinking of the 'gardens of power' au that the charlies themselves came up with and wishing i had the time/energy/willpower to write it bc like

celebrimbor is a famous jewelsmith who owns and runs several jewelry companies throughout middle earth

and he's trying to live up to the wild expectations of both his father and his grandfather who is like the most famous smith of any sort ever and can you imagine dinner parties with grandpa feanor tho

celebrimbor has a huge manor in eregion and it's gorgeous and there's this massive winding driveway that snakes through all sorts of trees and gardens and ponds

and of COURSE he needs someone to care for these gardens and this is where annatar comes in

a maia down on his luck, recently fired by his big boss after one of his co-workers betrayed him

poor annatar is all but begging on the streets when celebrimbor takes pity on him and offers him a job as the grounds keeper

which of course annatar accepts because plants are DEFINITELY better than people

and he does a good job!

but then!

celebrimbor catches annatar in his workshop one day!

annatar reveals that he is a smith and he can make things and he wants to expand from the caring of the gardens into working with celebrimbor on his jewelry business

and so celebrimbor gives him a chance to prove himself

and that is how annatar and celebrimbor team up to create the prettiest set of wedding rings you've ever seen

and they fucknasty in the workshop often too

[tense-gemstone]

conversation in Khuzdul between Celebrimbor and Narvi, probably c. SA 1400

Blehhhhhhhhhhhh [celebrimbor falls face-first onto bed]

Whats wrong dumbass (affectionate)

Annatar and I were doing some Valarin-

[Narvi is pretending to assume this is a euphemism for comedic effect] Finally! Is he any good?

??? ... ! no, I mean, linguistics-

[this joke relies on English but shhhh] Oh does he have one of those? Are you any good?

[blushing hard enough to steam] Translations from Valarin to Quenya

Lololololololol ok why does translating with your evil boyfriend have you yelling into my pillow

It’s just making it harder to ignore the evil part

Are his translations… evil?

… ok so for example, there’s this word in valarin that the amanyar translate as “light.” It has a lot of connotations, it also suggests both power and music, but we use “light” as shorthand - if you say to a Vanya “the light of the Powers” they know you’re referring to that theological concept.

Ok, sure.

Annatar translated it as “melody.” Despite the availability of a standard translation, including a fairly common idiomatic expression that entered my native language from his.

Ah.

[gesticulating rather violently with the much-abused pillow] Which suggests! That he does not actually know about the state of the study of valarin among the amanyar! And that probably means he was not actually in the West during the years of the Trees!

Yeah that sucks. That benefit of the doubt is drawing pretty thin, huh

Honestly i think we’re out of his benefit of the doubt and cutting into my plausible deniability. The power of Elrond's "I told you so" is going to level a small town

[perplecta]

My HC is that Sauron is a bisexual but he mostly likes men and has only one queen he loves and that's Galadriel

[malkaleh]

I’m discussing That Scene (you know the face caress one) in ROP so trigger warning for torture, SA and abusive relationship stuff abound.

I go really back and forth on whether Sauron would have handed Celebrimbor over to the orcs to, lets be blunt, be gang raped but I really don’t think he wants to :vomit: share.

(Some of it might be something like genuine sincere not wanting to do that/care as well in so much as Sauron can/believes his own bullshit but it’s about possession, about intimacy. About how Celebrimbor is his to mark, to have)

(Which like, I don’t go for abusive Angbang but when it is I think that might have been part of Melkors thing - like no, only I get to hurt him I hurt him because I love him).

(I think Sauron may well have made him watch others though which :////).

[ibrithir-was-here]

Silvergifting Week Day 6: Canon Divergance/AU

Anyone who's been here long knows my go to AU for this pair is the Ring Babies one x)

So here's The Three with non evil baby One Ring and happy Adas :)

@silvergiftingweek

[shierak-inavva]

au where celebrimbor has a crush and annatar decides it’s free real estate

[maleinmari]

Modern!AU in which Celebrimbor is a jeweler and Sauron is a regular customer.

Lately I've been wanting Modern

[windrelyn]

"I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood?... Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love... They say that love hath a bitter taste... But what matter? What matter? I have kissed thy mouth."

― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

AU Annatar and Celebrimbor, inspired by Salomé

[lordgrimwing]

Side Character Fluff #03

[for @silvergiftingweek, Day 1: Beginnings]

Annatar wasn't known for his collaborations. His clothing line, Tol-Ainö, stood alone, masterful and beautiful. Accessories? Wearing his name, you rarely needed any. That wasn't to say Annatar never collaborated on a project. Sometimes, on rare occasions, he had an idea for something that required another artist. 

“Annatar,” his personal assistant said, sticking their head into his drafting room. “He's here.”

Annatar looked up from his patterns. His assistant looked at him through thin glasses. They were willow tall and thin, an uninspired mix of elf and human, the kind of person who could model for one of those sleek, modern summer-wear lines. They did, in fact, until Annatar snatched them up, keenly sensing  they were more than just a pretty body. He was right, of course, but being pretty didn't hurt.

“Good,” he said, straightening up. “Take him to my office.”

His office was tastefully comfortable. None of this modern minimalism nonsense. He waited a few minutes before following. He liked to see how other artists responded to his office. A litmus test, of sorts.

He stopped by his assistant's desk, picking up the packet of draft papers filled with thoughts. 

“I put on a pot for tea,” his assistant said.

Annatar nodded and entered the office.

Mannequins lined the room, displaying some of his favorite mockups and runway ideas. The walls were artfully covered with sketches of gowns and suits and outfits that had no practical purpose beyond pushing textiles to an extreme. Instead of a desk and armchairs for entertaining guests and patrons, tasseled pillows sat on the plush rug, inviting guests to sit or recline while imagining with him. He had eyes for none of that. 

To the left of the room, inspecting the paper thin corset on a mannequin, stood an elf.

He was facing away from the door and Annatar had a clear view of two lines of sleek black braids. Painted wood and metal beads accented the long hair. His attire was nothing impressive but they fit the person: a jeweler from a small town who wasn't quite used to being known by the larger world, comfortable in his clothes and unembarrassed by his waistline.

“Hello, Celebrimbor,” Annatar said.

Celebrimbor turned around, an easy smile on his soft face. “Hello, you must be Annatar.”

Annatar's smile was more reserved. Celebrimbor was… an interesting elf.

If there’s one thing he liked, it’s interesting things.

[junk-whunk-punk]

Metallic alloy: Iron + Gold + Silver

Lately I don't have enough energy for full work pics with ok anatomy and colorcore so I can show you only quick pics dudos :c (also me spending plenty of time on drawing Melk's stubble: – wah wah wah wah stayin alive stayin alive😎🤙)

As I said once I'm gonna get a rank of Silvergifting+Angbang ambassador cuz WHY DON'T PEOPLE MAKE THREESOME WITH THEM IT'D HAVE SUCHHHH A HOT VIBE just them being competitive with each other to get each other's ass. WHY😤

If you also was questioning about this, so you have me😽