Very well. Not every Sindar is a great swimmer, though they love rivers and ponds even if no longer enamored of the sea. And Celeborn is someone who loves to boat, so he’d’ve have practice swimming in the rivers.
E: How are they with children?
Definitely. Celeborn for best dad. He’s patient and supportive, the dad to sits and play tea parties and it’s a gut thing, but I feel Celebrían was closer to her dad than mom. I’m not sure which parent was the disciplinarian.
L: What is their favourite board game?
Oooh, do we have any info on board games in Tolkien? I think there’s a chess metaphor in the books, but I’m not sure. So I wonder what ancient board games would fit in the universe. Would a mancala-like game be popular or something involving black and white pieces on a square board that could be as simple as checkers/draughts, the roman game of latrones, or as complex as go? Before the arrival of Morgoth’s feel wolves and monsters and later orcs, there wouldn’t be the need of a military tactics training game, so the board game model would be gambling/collecting stones/passing the other person in the model of a backgammon-like game. Which fits in nicely with the Royal Game of Ur, and isn’t that an elf-like artifact? Afterwards (and I have to believe one of these games was part of the initial strong cultural exchange between the dwarves and the elves of Doriath) such a draughts/chess game would have been very popular for princes during the First Age, and Celeborn would have played. I’m sure Galadriel introduced him to Amanyar board games and repeatedly and soundly beat him at most of them, but i can imagine him holding his own and beating her as well, fueling her interest and her competitiveness driving her to spend time with him, growing their romance. Patolli doesn’t seem like his thing. …wow i’m overthinking this without giving a definitive answer.
B: Do they have any allergies?
I don’t think elves did? Except for sensitivity to Melkor/Sauron’s evil.
O: What would it take to break them, inside and out?
Depends on how broken he was at any point in canon. but he did survive the destruction of his home -repeated. He survived the deaths of his parents, grandparents, king and great-uncle, the deaths of his cousins, his niece, his great-nephews, his home sacked twice,his king again, losing the continent of his birth and long deep attachment, being overthrown in a political coup over the land and new home he had established, having that destroyed by Sauron again, his wife living centuries under strain and the fear of losing her, losing his daughter*, etc… and still he rebuilds and endures and moves on. Only Círdan of all the elves possibly can claim to have endured and survived more than Celeborn, and no one has lost more. If he broke during any of those moments, or repeatedly, he recovered as to have hope of victory in during the War of the Ring three ages later. I don’t think even the possibility of Galadriel seizing the One Ring and going Dark Mistress of All would permanently break Celeborn inside and out.
*Not even bringing up if Amroth was Celeborn’s son or just quasi-adopted and loved as one, or here he goes to the list.
R: What are their hands like?
Large, very handsome, but scarred. Calluses from the bowstring and centuries of wielding the ax. long fingers, nails short and neat,tries and fails to clean all the dirt from under them. Doesn’t wear rings.
N: What do they usually eat for breakfast?
Whatever is normal elven breakfast- I imagine honey is part of it.
this has been in my tabs forever but ahhhhh that quote is why my headcanon for “how Celeborn gets to Aman” is basically that Treebeard gets tired of listening to Celeborn be melancholy about his wife and daughter and everyone in Valinor and after one particularly sappy round of drunken crying just wanders down to the Sea and floats off to Valinor while Celeborn’s sleeping off the wine
(a hundred years later)
yav this is… really cute omg…
It reminds me of @squirrelwrangler bc she also has a similar headcanon of Ents driftwooding to Valinor which is kind of hilarious and adorable, but the idea of Celeborn drifting on Treebeard is even funnier snwjdfmgttrgmfjfd
😀 I’m glad you like it! ❤
Honestly it’s at least part Heget’s fault, I think her driftwood Ents started it and there was something in one of my chats with her about drunk woodelves accidentally ending up in Valinor because they were sleeping off the wine halfway up a couple of Ents? Haha and then Celeborn “there is no record of when he left for the Grey Havens because he’s too embarrassed to admit his Ent friend just decided all this pining was silly”. Uinen definitely didn’t invite Galadriel and her family down to their favorite beach for the day and have Osse deliver Treebeard and passenger to said beach for maximum embarrassment/hilarity/happy reunion feels.
Here’s the post where we established that logically the Ents (especially during and after the War of Wrath) can float themselves to Valinor to unite with Yavanna. And that elves could be hitching rides that way. And now nothing will convince me otherwise that this is Celeborn’s final fate.
“Yet not all of the Eldalië were willing to forsake the Hither Lands where they had long suffered and long dwelt; and some lingered many an age in Middle Earth. Among those were Círdan the Shipwright, and Celeborn of Doriath, with Galadriel his wife, who alone remained of those who led the Noldor to exile in Beleriand.” – The Silmarillion, p 115
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