So, about Celebrimbor...

[huinare]

I had another weird June challenge idea, thanks to a conversation with lignota, this one not nearly as doomy as the one I came up with last year. If anything, it is an attempt to counteract the doom which many of us have inflicted upon a particular character. Thus, I propose:

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June, 2015: “We’re Sorry, Celebrimbor”

Comments

[hhimring]

I really like the idea! My only worry is: what if I try and not-so-good things insist on happening to him anyway? (Not that I'd be inviting Annatar to the party!)

[huinare]

Oh dear, I'd not considered that (one might think I would, given my history of doing horrible things to characters including but by no means limited to Celebrimbor).

So maybe if it's a story arc that goes downhill for Celebrimbor, it could be broken into short chapters, and the chapter(s) where not-bad-stuff happens could be the Apology?

[hhimring]

Yes.
I suppose I was remembering my Narvi and Celebrimbor drabbles that somehow ended with Narvi's dying (of natural causes, rather than unexpectedly)--and nevertheless are also the most cheerful Celebrimbor story I've written so far...

[huinare]

I'm not sure why I'm so blithely convinced I can write something happy about Celebrimbor, because, well, 1. It's me, and 2. It's Celebrimbor.
I think in my mind I'm conceiving of it sort of like writing a gift fic for him or something.

[bunn]

Perhaps the story-teller is from a Rohirric culture, and believes that it is best to be commemorated and celebrated in heroic memory, even if bad things happen?

Actually, elves are all about the memory, aren't they, now I think about it? That Anglo-Saxon idea runs deep.

[hhimring]

I have this tendency towards the elegiac...
But maybe I can restrain it!