Where the story ends

[lilith_lessfair]

B2MeM Prompt: Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task.
Format: drabble
Genre: gen
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Galadriel, Celeborn, Celebrimbor
Pairings: Galadriel/Celeborn, unrequited Galadriel/Celebrimbor
Summary: Galadriel leaves Eregion.




As winter slowly loosed its grip upon the land, Galadriel found herself about to undertake a journey she had not anticipated, leaving behind two of those she loved most in the world..

“Safe travels,” her husband said. Then he kissed her forehead and her lips before returning to the city gate. Most beloved, he would not travel through the dwarven realm under the mountains.

“May the Valar guide your path,” said her cousin. Loved only a little less or only a little differently, he it was who’d dismissed her from this realm.

“I had not thought it would come to this,” she said to him.

“Nor I,” he answered, “and I am sorry for it. Are you sure you will not stay?’

“I cannot.”

“I have loved you,” he said.

“Not enough,” she answered. “Not as much as ...”

“As much,” he replied. “But I was never allowed to love you as I would have wished.”

Comments

[heartofoshun]

This great!! Difficult men in her life!

Celeborn still brooding about misinterpreted history and ancient grudges.
Meanwhile, Celebrimbor still pouting about not being loved the way he hoped.

[lilith_lessfair]

I have the urge to slap them both. Apparently, my brain is going to go live in their backstory.

[heartofoshun]

I know the feeling!

[lilith_lessfair]

And all this because I had to take a trip I didn’t want to take yesterday. ;-)

[heartofoshun]

I'm not sorry if it resulted in this! Just kidding. I am sorry!

[lilith_lessfair]

It turned out to be a very good trip as the trip to Lothlórien ultimately did. It just didn’t have the most auspicious beginning and the destination was hardly scenic.

[lilith_lessfair]

I also have this theory about Celebrimbor’s thing for Galadriel. None of this is to diminish any feeling, because he is certainly convinced, but I wonder how much was the crush on the older, cool girl as an awkward young fellow and then, later, how much was a workaholic wanting to love someone but not wanting the details of a relationship to get in the way of the work. I’m thinking both play into it in the sense that he chooses the first person he felt that way for who’s also pretty wonderful and unattainable. A significant amount of guilt re: the family deeds might make clinging to something that can’t work still more appealing. Clearly, I view LaCE as I view Catholic doctrine.

Still working on Celeborn and the past.

[heartofoshun]

crush on the older, cool girl as an awkward young fellow and then, later, how much was a workaholic wanting to love someone but not wanting the details of a relationship to get in the way of the work

I think a lot of people have the issue of wanting to love someone who is unattainable--for a whole lot of reasons. I've noticed how people will do that and will pursue someone relentlessly until they cave in and then there is frantic backpedaling.

[lilith_lessfair]

True.

[heartofoshun]

I am bored into a stupor with even thinking about LaCE most of the time. I think the Catholic doctrine take on it works storywise. In world, some people can strongly believe in it and abide by it, others believe and always fail, and other still (like me maybe) have their own personal mores and principles and could care less. I do like to write LaCE as Valar-invented or developed and those who never came to Aman find it foreign and may or may not have other theories. I usually write Aman-based stories with the Vanyar (obviously) as more serious/observant, the Noldor kind of in the middle (with that rebellious streak), and the Teleri thinking it really has very little to do with how they live their lives. I'll read anything though as long as no one tries to twist by arm about it.

[lilith_lessfair]

I read it as if it were a prescriptive text: Valar-invented, etc.

It leaves so much more room to play.

[hhimring]

A bitter departure!
But it will turn out worse for them than for her.
Celebrimbor may think that he would have chosen Galadriel over Mairen, if only Galadriel had married him. But perhaps it isn't quite true.

[lilith_lessfair]

I wonder how much of Celeborn staying has to do with keeping an eye on this.

I’m not sure he thinks he would, but perhaps he thinks that the choice might not have been before him. But it isn’t necessarily about choosing a person (I have in my head Galadriel and Celebrimbor would have been not well suited, but, of course, was unlikely to result in a gruesome death.) but picking the things that go with them, in the case of Mairen, she satisfies that thirst for knowledge and creation in ways Galadriel, for all her many gifts, can’t. Choosing her enables him to do —or so he thinks and, to a degree, it’s not untrue, so much of what he wants to do. But perhaps satisfying those urges isn’t exactly healthy either.

[lilith_lessfair]

I think, too, that Galadriel and Celebrimbor are pretty angry with one another for the Mairen situation and for other reasons. She s not happy that he brings up loving her, even if he isn’t really referring to the romantic love he has felt for her but rather a deep and close bond between kin and friends and if he’s primarily regretting the circumstances that lead them to this point.
He’s not thrilled that she seems to suggest he didn’t love her enough, when he feels by and large that he’s been very good about the whole unrequited thing (only bringing it up awkwardly and dramatically two or three times - ;-) ) and when he feels he has the opportunity of an new and different beginning, though what that beginning entails is far from clear, and doesn’t understand why she might begrudge him that. (She doesn’t. Just bad idea, man.)