#narvi

no but imagine Gandalf cursing out Narvi and Celebrimbor in his head when he was thinking about all the possible passwords they could’ve chosen when making the doors of Dúrin

I love Celebrimbor the material scientist, the research engineer, the quantum physicist. I love the idea of him teaching his apprentices with equations on blackboards and thumbnails on scrap paper before work begins in the forge. I love him running his forge like a research lab with unlimited funding and so much time. I love Celebrimbor and Narvi’s collaboration depicted as academic co-authorship. I love Eregion the university town, where scholars hold conferences and students hold informal debates in little bars. I love Eregion as a sea of curiosity and willingness to learn, with strong undercurrents of academic drama (iykyk). I love Eregion as the city of progress, but the right kind of progress, that exists in sync with the natural world, and yet elevates life beyond what nature alone can offer.