adar and celebrimbor. tell me your thinks👀
hooooo boy. (this got a bit wooby, i apologize in advance)
i think Adar would have UNFATHOMABLY deep levels of pity for Celebrimbor. I think if they had met while Brimby was alive, Adar would recognize Sauron's influence right away and I think he would try his best to help him untangle himself from it.
I think they could really bond over the trauma of getting pulled into conflicts against their will. I headcanon that Brimby participated in the kinslaying but he didn't WANT TO and was incredibly traumatized by it.
He didn't swear an oath, but his father put a sword in his hand and told him he had to prove his loyalty to his family, so he did. I don't think Celebrimbor ever wanted to make weapons for killing. He wanted to make beautiful things: sceptres and crowns and pretty jewelry. But his uncles kept coming to him in need of swords, so he made them.
(Meanwhile, Adar's like "that's rough buddy, but remember that time Morgoth tapped be to be the progenitor of an entire race that was intended to be canon fodder?")
Brimby would take one look at Adar and say "take that armor off now and let me mend it... don't be silly, it won't take me long and it will fit you so much better, just sit down there and have a cup of tea!"
And before you know it, Adar is down to his jammies, with a cup of Eregion's finest chai, listening to Brimby ramble on about smithcraft and how "yes, there are mice in the forge, and you might see them scurrying about but don't mind them, they're quite nice and perhaps if you're so inclined you might slip them a piece of your biscuit."
And there's a weird feeling in his chest and it takes awhile for him to figure out what it is and then he realizes that this is what it feels like to be completely charmed by someone.
