Three Meetings in Gondolin

[dbalthasar]

Or: three times that Idril Celebrindal had dealings with Celebrimbor, while Gondolin still stood. PG, and for once no warnings apply.

Comments

[lferion]

This is superb. Brilliant and delicate and threaded with melancholy while also hopeful. I laughed at Celebrimbor's bit about Maeglin 'not succeeding' and then trying to not fulfill his part of the bargain. Of course Celebrimbor could make galvorn with enough information, even fragmented and misleading.

I love your Idril as well, and her steely competence.

[dbalthasar]

Thank you very much! Someday I want to write the full story of Celebrimbor's encounters with Maeglin (I cannot for the life of me ship them, contrary to most of AO3), because Celebrimbor is just that clever,and he would want to know those secrets badly enough to gamble his own.

I'm becoming increasingly fond of Idril, who seems to have had an enormous fund of common sense, and the leadership skills needed to make use of them. (And a father who had more sense than to say no to her marriage, but I think she would have found a way around any prohibitions, and he knew it.) And who took her mortal husband to Valinor and got to keep him forever anyway. :-)

[amenirdis]

A lovely story! I like your Idril -- she has steel, and she reminds me of Elrond in some ways. Which does follow! :)

Celebrimbor is cocky, only he really is that good. And of course he can work out how to make galevorn.

[dbalthasar]

She is very like Elrond! Or, rather, Elrond is very like her. But I like her solid practicality, and her willingness to do whatever is necessary to save her people. Plus too much sense to run off with Maeglin!

It's not cocky if you can do it? I suspect that's Celebrimbor's basic motto....

[the_stowaway]

I'd need to brush up on my Elvish history to appreciate the nuances, but nonetheless I liked this a lot. Full of the sadness I associate with the Elves, but with leavening flashes of humor. Good stuff!

[dbalthasar]

Thank you! I am probably going to file some of the serial numbers off this one at some point (in my copious free time!), as there are some story/ideas that I'd like to explore in more depth myself...