entranced by a celeborn who stayed on in middle-earth not just to watch over and support arwen, but because immediately upon getting wise to his granddaughter’s engagement he went “oho. a baby” and started making galadriel scry into minas tirith so he could craft a mental map of all sharp corners that would need to be infant-proofed. eldarion is born and the rest of all dinner-table conversations for eternity is “grandpa you need to stop buying him sixteen [gondorian equivalent of a spongebob ice pop] every day” celeborn, hollow-voiced: “i survived the sack of eregion and the fall of beleriand and you do not wish me to Cherish My Great-Grandchild” while aragorn sits there spoon-feeding eldarion porridge like 😟







