#celebrimbot

Take your mind off the heat with our collaboration for the 2020 @tolkienrsb! Featuring art by myself @celebrimbot and a wonderful fic by @joyfullynervouscreator (raiyana on Ao3)!

Please enjoy!

Full Art: Eh, Turgon won’t care... (rating: T)

Fic: Ain’t no Sunshine (when he’s gone) on Ao3 (rating: M, 12k words, opens Sunday September 6th!)

Summary: Discovering a new source of sunlight in his world brings Ecthelion less joy and more frustration than Elemmakil ever deserved. Galdor tries to be an excellent wingman, but it's hard when the target audience doesn't react in expected ways, but Glorfindel is nothing if not persistent. (Aka, Obliviots in Love)

Characters: Ecthelion, Glorfindel, Elemmakil, Galdor 

Relationships: Ecthelion/Glorfindel 

Tinufain discovers (what’s left of) his brother

Rules: list then song you’ve been listening to recently, tag ten people. 

1. Bad Moon Rising cover by Mourning Ritual

2. What I Need by Hayley Kiyoko bc I keep watching the FOCKING video

3. The Mad Max Fury Road soundtrack

4. Wasteland Baby. ‘‘you can’t rec a whole album in one—” are you a COP???

5. Pisces live session by Jinjer, bc watching tatiana shmaylyuk do the vocal fry is. It Is.

6. Dead Inside by Younger Hunger bc it reminds me of a set of OCs I’m drawing today

7. Lipstick to Void by Mica Levi from the Under the Skin soundtrack

8. I bought the King Arthur: Legend of the Sword soundtrack with real legal tender and am specifically lovin The Darklands and The Devil and the Huntsman. 9. Snapple can lid fact! Daniel Pemberton did the King Arthur AND Into the Spiderverse soundtrack which brings us to: Are You Ready To Swing? from the Spiderverse soundtrack.

10. Faceshopping by Sophie. Also Ponyboy. Could not pick.

Have some more from the sci-fi AU - and once again they wound up separate. Maybe someday I’ll manage to write them together in it. Anyway.

Celebrimbor moved quietly through the empty station, closing the viewing ports one by one as he left; it shut out the stars and the faint after-jump trails of Eregion’s escape craft.

This was the main discussion hall, where people had gathered to debate and raise suggestions to improve Eregion - and Annatar had ever been ready with a suggestion, some clever solution or kind word for another’s idea. Celebrimbor closed his eyes, stilling memories of a sweet voice and amber eyes, and went through the empty room. He needed to get to the bridge quickly.

There, he made some quick and careful calculations, and sent out three craft - tiny things that could barely make five jumps through space. But they would serve their purpose, and be undetectable to most searches.

Then he sat in the captain’s chair, looked away from the co-pilot position that Annatar had occupied in the past, and waited, cradling a pulse gun to his chest. He couldn’t do the last thing he needed to do yet; Annatar - Saruon, rather -  had to be on shipboard first.

But he was confident he would come.

It was exactly an hour before space split open, revealing burning wreckage in the place it was opening to, before Sauron’s ship slipped through the opening and it closed again. Celebrimbor’s mouth was dry, but he closed his eyes and made calculations in his head, feeling the tremble of the station as Sauron’s ship attached itself, hearing the sizzle of broken connections as cameras and communication ports were broken all over the ship.

One, however, remained intact; Sauron’s voice, terribly like Annatar’s, came softly through the speaker attached to the deck just below.

"Celebrimbor… surrender and I shall not have to harm you, dearest."

Celebrimbor let out a low sigh, and, his wait over, reached out and pressed the ship’s self-destruct. The muted countdown began as he stood up and opened the communication link.