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Celegar

Celegar (Elvish: “King of speed”) was the name of a horse, Lord Elrond’s chief advisor owned towards the end of the Third Age. One of the things, the chief advisor and librarian of the realm of Imladris was famous for, was his alleged indifference towards horses. Unlike his Lord, Erestor didn’t find joy and satisfaction in working with horses, and throughout the millennia of his life, he seldom owned one himself. Not many people knew that this distance towards the animals arose from Erestor’s old life in Gondolin, as Erestor’s horse had been one one of the first beings around him he had to watch die when the city fell, even before his parents and his brother. Towards the end of the Third Age, when restlessness was spreading on Middle-earth again and there was talk about the Imladris army needing reinforcements, Erestor took up his usually quite casual soldier training again whenever he had time to spare. Around the year T.A. 2400, he finally let Lord Elrond persuade him to take responsibility for a young black stallion of Elrond’s breed, with the same thought. Erestor soon felt very close to the particularly fast and headstrong steed that he called Celegar. From now on, he spent more afternoons than usual outside his library, to relax on long rides outside the valley. In T.A. 2417, returning from one of those rides, Erestor arrived by the city gates just in time to see two visitors from Lórien being greeted by the Lord whom he’d never met before. The young healer Tarisilya Vandriniel caught his eye thanks to her exceptionally innocent aura, and when the young she-elf showed up in his library not too long afterwards, he felt more and more fascinated by her - an interest that seemed to be mutual. Though a romance between the two elves had never been in the books, as it would turn out later, Erestor and Tarisilya spent some time together this summer. One afternoon, Erestor took her one a ride with him on Celegar to train her with a bow and arrow a little bit. In the same week, Tarisilya’s twin brother Tegiend went missing, along with Elrond’s twin sons, after the group had gone on a ride far outside the city. Seeing how much Tarisilya was suffering from worry for her brother, Erestor decided to try and look for them and meant to ride out with Celegar. Tarisilya stopped him before he could leave though, as Elrond had ordered his people to wait, knowing that his sons would bring Tegiend home safely. Instead, Erestor and Tarisilya rode to a hill just outside the city to talk. It was there that they got attacked by a pack of physically and mentally very ill wolves. While the two elves made it to escape the situation only with minor injuries, Celegar fell victim to the wolves’ teeth, dying as he tried to protect his rider. After having watched the second horse in his long life suffer such a gruesome fate, Erestor decided against ever owning a horse for himself again. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * (Tales Untold - a “The Lord of the Rings” series "Tales Untold" aesthetics | "Tales Untold" glossary) * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

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Conuiril

Conuiril (Elvish: “Ruler of radiating white”) was the name of a cat, the Lord of Cair Andros and his wife owned for many years in the Third and Fourth Age. Conuiril was given to Tarisilya shortly after the War of the Ring, as a gift by the sister of one of her patients in Minas Tirith. The smallest of its litter, the white baby cat was very weak at this point, and one of its siblings had bitten half its ear off. Though Tarisilya had never wanted to own a pet before, seeing that melted her heart, and she decided to keep the cat. Her new owner living in Minas Tirith at this point, working in the Houses of Healing while her husband established a new elf settling at Cair Andros, Conuiril grew into a fearless and insolent beast that terrorized half the Royal court and only let anyone pick her up if it was her own idea. In constant friendly rivalry with Queen Arwen’s dog Fain, the two animals were often seen fighting or chasing each other, bringing a daily smile to more than one face in the difficult time of the Stewardaides crisis. When Tarisilya got pregnant and Legolas sent her to the other new elven settling being built at that time, East Lórien, to be safe, Tarisilya took Conuiril with her. The cat felt very comfortable in their remote talan and merciless ruled over all food rations and the frequent squirrel visitors that kept her owner company. At the end of the Stewardaides crisis, when Tarisilya was tricked into sailing back to Gondor, she wanted to leave the cat behind in safety, but Conuiril sneaked her way onto the boat. There she stayed when her owner was kidnapped. The boat captain found her - in the pantry of course, because a crisis is no reason to neglect your appetite, thank you very much - a few days later and brought her to East Lórien. After she had been well taken care of there for a while, the next group of elves traveling to Mithlond took Conuiril with them to Imladris to deliver her to Legolas’ second-in-command Thondrar. On his way back to Cair Andros, finally, Thondrar returned Conuiril to her owner safe and unharmed, which probably makes her the cat who’s traveled farthest in all of Middle-earth. With Tarisilya being far along with her pregnancy at this point, Conuiril hardly ever left her side anymore then, always snuggling up and seeking nearness to her owner’s belly and purring against it, soothing both her and the baby in this troubled time. When the Stewardaides crisis finally drew to an end and Tarisilya and Legolas started their new peaceful life at Cair Andros, Conuiril of course accompanied them to her new Kingdom, to a whole settlement of elves spoiling her rotten and another army of squirrels to command. Legolas’ and Tarisilya’s son soon loved Conuiril just as much as his parents, and until Conuiril’s death, they would be inseparable. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * (Tales Untold - a “The Lord of the Rings” series "Tales Untold" aesthetics | "Tales Untold" glossary) * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *

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Cubbi Took

Cubbi Took was the name of a Hobbit child, the future Princess of Eryn Lasgalen and the future Queen of the Reunited Kingdom encountered in Imladris towards the end of the Third Age. In T.A. 2417, a young healer elf of Lórien named Tarisilya Vandriniel visited Imladris together with her twin brother Tegiend. Tegiend who had been serving as a Lórien marchwarden for a few centuries already, immediately after his arrival rekindled his just as old friendship with Lord Elrond’s sons Elladan and Elrohir. The two of them gladly helped him get accustomed with the Imladris soldier structures and traditions since Tegiend wanted to make himself useful even in the time of his holiday. On that evening, Tegiend also met one of his biggest idols, Elrond’s general Lord Glorfindel, for the first time. Though neither of them knew at that time that their fate was closer intertwined than they thought, Glorfindel took a great liking to the young warrior. He immediately noticed the strengths of Tegiend’s big heart and his great physical potential, and he decided to train the young elf a little. Out of those good intentions, Glorfindel took not only the twins but Tegiend with him when a few days later, trouble with wild animals outside of Imladris was reported. Arrived at said clearing, the four of them found a big group of Hobbits - being unusually far from their home in the Shire - who were threatened by a large group of very aggressive, dangerous wolves. There had been losses in the group already, and many of the Hobbits were dangerously wounded. While trying to free the helpless creatures from the dire situation, Glorfindel got parted from his companions. The larger group of wolves started chasing them, while Glorfindel stayed back with the Hobbits who had suffered the worst injuries. As they wouldn’t have got the whole group out of the situation at once without losing even more people anyway, Glorfindel took the injured Halflings with him to Imladris, with a  heavy heart. Tegiend and the twins were left behind to take care of the other wounded and protect the rest of the group. While for the next few days, the twins fought with their healing abilities to save the lives of the Halflings, sadly not entirely successful, Tegiend had to fend off attacks from the wolves again and again. All three of them soon ended up with injuries themselves. As it would turn out later, the wolves carried a dangerous, deadly disease that made their bite dangerous for First- and Secondborn too, and the infections further weakened the usually so strong warriors. Only when other Imladris soldiers finally found them, they could take the rest of the Halflings to the valley, including the five Hobbits who had not survived their wounds. Among the survivors was the child of one of the diseased, a brown-haired toddler with the name Cubbi Took. His mother and him originated from the infamous adventurous clan of the same name; they had gone on the trip with the other Hobbits to collect mushrooms for a big party. None of the soldiers had the heart to tell the young boy what had happened, so they decided to bring him to the healers. Tegiend and the twins as well were taken to the halls of healing upon arrival, as they also needed treatment. The Hobbit boy was left on his own on the hallway outside the sick rooms for the moment. That was where Tarisilya found him, looking for her brother. For a few minutes, the innocent, cheerful mind of the Halfling distracted her both from her worry about her brother and a wound she had suffered herself just minutes earlier, in another wolf attack right outside the valley. A silent warning from one of the healers close by though quickly let her know, Cubbi would need a lot of comfort and help soon, and that she herself was far too agitated to give it to him right now. So she was relieved when her friend, Lord Elrond’s daughter, joined the scene and took Cubbi from her hands. The little boy fell in love with the ethereally beautiful elf immediately and willingly accompanied her to the others of his group that didn’t need further treatment. It was indeed Arwen then who told Cubbi that his mother had died and who took care of him in the next few days. When a group of soldiers from Imladris brought the child and the other Hobbits back to the edge of the Shire, Arwen went with them to keep on looking out for the boy for as long as she could. After their parting, it was unclear to the elves how the grief-struck kid was further faring. Only at the end of the Third Age, when Arwen got to meet Peregrin Took for the first time, during his stay in Imladris, she remembered the encounter and asked the future member of the Fellowship about his family tree. She was pleased to learn that Cubbi had become a strawberry farmer who, while he had never left his home again, had eventually become very happy. After marrying a sweet girl, he had continued his line with almost half a dozen children. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * (Tales Untold - a “The Lord of the Rings” series "Tales Untold" aesthetics | "Tales Untold" glossary) * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *