You opinion of Celebrimbor/Narvi

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~~I spent almost five hours on this, what is wrong with me?!~~

Here, have some Narvi and Celebrimbor hanging out, aka “bffs judge people together” (and yes, that is its actual title). I love these goobs in all their different combinations: bffs, friends with benefits, cuddle-buddies, queerplatonic, romantic asexual, or the biggest romance to ever romance, but I tend to ship them all the way to Valinor.

I swear, it has taken me such a long time to figure out how to draw that stupid Noldorin prince, there are at least three different versions of him in my scrapped-folder! The only things that have been consistent are the eye-shape and that he’s a redhead, though the specific shade of red has varied as well.

The almighty Determamfidd wrote a line in a scene where Legolas and Gimli talk about tattoos (I think it was in one of the Lórien chapters) and Legolas mentions that some Elves use paint to adorn themselves. I sort of latched on to that and decided that make-up is totes a thing.

Also, have any of you noticed that when I don’t have a clear idea of the clothes a character is wearing my brain tends to go “PURPLE!!!”?

I might shade this later. Or not. We’ll see.

OH CHRISTMASHIPPO THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHHH!

Gosh, they’re GORGEOUS (elves in makeup YASSS). I am sure I mentioned how much I ADORE Narvi’s hair! LOOKIT THAT NOSERING, that is awesome!

I LOVE IT I LOVE YOU

So like, do you hc Narvi as being romantically involved with Celebrimbor? I always just assumed from your writing that she was ace (which is awesome too!), but reading your comment on the beautiful picture of Narvi you reblogged earlier got me curious about your thoughts on their relationship (and how it might affect Narvi’s thoughts on Gimli and Legolas’ relationship).

I don’t actually have a firm headcanon on this one way or the other. I like them together. I like them aro and best buds. I like them ace, but doollaly in love. I like them romantic. I like them queerplatonic. I like them with green eggs and ham.

All the Narvi and Celebrimbor!

What’s Narvi’s and Celebrimbor relationship in Sansûkh? Were they friends, lovers, couldn’t stand each other?

Narvi will not speak of it. She will not. Rumours have persisted through the centuries, debating their relationship: the word ‘friend’ is inscribed there, upon the Doors of Durin, say some.

But if you even mention Khelembrimbur’s name, Narvi goes very still and silent and her eyes are too terrible to look upon, say others. And she will not touch ithildin. Never again.

So, there is no definitive answer. Nobody really knows.

idk if you’re still doing these, but could we see a pocket Celebrimbor? X

alyruko:

and then the land was overrun with tiny doors

Dear other anon, there is a difference between bod boys and people who have a gruff personality. A bad boy does shitty things and is a generally shitty person but is also hot. A gruff person is just someone who has more difficulty expressing emotion. Thorin is gruff. Dwarves in general have gruff personalities. His is just accompanied by quiet and less whimsy than say Bofur. The things he does in the last movie are literally bc he has a mental illness triggered by substantial amounts of gold.

aviva0017:

muchymozzarella:

[passing this along.

Thorin was irritable for many good reasons I don’t need to list if you have any observational skills]

BTW guys on that note the “mental illness” portion, whether equatable or not to our world’s mental illness, is quite literal in the sense that the greed experienced by dwarves is not of their own wills but is induced by Sauron himself, who could not bend the dwarves to his evil but instead poisoned the dwarves’ natural industriousness.

This is why in LOTR it’s a big deal when Galadriel says “your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion” to Gimli

Because dwarves aren’t naturally greedy, and Elves have no place to talk about the greed one of their own (Celebrimbor) caused (even if inadvertently, by creating the rings which Sauron poisoned) in the dwarvish race in the first place.

I was 100% on board with this until that last paragraph, I’m not even sure what that’s trying to say, but if it’s somehow blaming Celebrimbor of all people for that dwarven greed, when he was just as deceived by Sauron as everybody else, then that’s kind of ridiculous.

The rest of it is pretty spot-on though.

Oh hey, yeah – I would have to agree that Celebrimbor was a total victim in this scenario.