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#also cause of this celegorm would be sick of the thought of locking up a wife cause he saw what it did to his favorite cousin
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AU that as soon as Aredhel left Gondolin she sent a messenger hawk to Celegorm telling him 'to ready the hounds cause she free from her annoying over protective brother! She'll be there in a month or so!'
But then a month goes by and Aredhel isn't there, and Celegorm worries about what happened to his favorite cousin but hopes she was forced to go to visit Fingon or her father. He tells Maedhros about it, who writes a letter to Fingon asking after his sisters well being. How would he know shes in Gondolin with Turgon??
The Feanorians panic. Both over the well being of their female cousin, but also because if something did happen to the High Kings only daughter on her way to visit Celegorm, they were all FUCKED
Search parties go out. Subtlety. They don't want to to arouse suspicion and bands of Feanorians roaming the lands between where Carainthir thinks Gondolin is to Himring and down by Doriath is definitely eye catching
A few months go by with no word and at this point Aredhel has been missing for almost a year and Caranthir is exhausted, worried, stressed, and heading to a meeting with some Dwarves about a new trade deal. The Dwarves notice and ask why their tall friend is upset. He mentions his female cousin went missing while traveling to visit his brother for months now and his family is spent trying to find her.
The Dwarves go quite. They trade knowing and unnerved glances between each other.
One dwarf hesitantly mentions that the last time they met Eol, their Dwarf-Friend smith who lives in Nan Elmoth, he had mentioned that he recently married a Noldor Princess and that he wouldn't be by for a while.
Carainthir's face goes ashen, then a furious red. The Dwarves dont need to ask if it was a consenting marriage as they watch their Elf companion grit an apology out of his teeth before he stalks out the room
In a week Nan Elmoth has a pretty sizable portion of the Feanorian army besieging its woods. Fingolfin and Fingon are worried, because Feanor's Sons have been acting weird lately, and now they've amassed an army??? Attacking what they believe is Thingol's territory??? Very alarming, Fingon is dispatched post haste to see what the fuck is going on and hopefully to work some diplomatic magic and not have all of Thingols wrath upon the Noldor
When he arrives at Celegorm and Curufin's fortress in Himland, for that seems where the whole host is now camped, he is shocked to willingly and eagerly be let right to the room where the Sons are. They are bloody, weary, and travel worn, but all viciously pleased with themselves
Maedhros turns to Fingon and greets him: "Hail Crown Prince of the Noldor, come forward and meet your newest subject and future heir"
Fingon stumbles forward with a cry and collapses onto his sister's sick bed. He hasn't seen her in years and shes thin, sickly, pale, looks like she could sleep for a decade, and has a haunted look deep in her eyes that wasn't there when he last saw her, but she also looks radiant as she holds a tiny, sleeping baby
"Ah! Brother there you are! I will need your hand to write a scolding letter to Turgon in regards to him getting better guards, or at least training them better in tracking. But first, come meet your nephew. Say hello to Lomion"
#aredhel#lotr#ficlet#Silmarillion#celegorm#fingon#caranthir#maedhros#maeglin#lomion#celegorm very gleefully removed eols head from his shoulders snd is more then willing to take up the male figure#role in lomions life not as a dad but as the best uncle#she visits ofc csuse she loves to travel and fingon and fingolfin visit her as well#and celegorm gives lomion the nickname Maeglin cause hes really good at spying prey during hunts or catching subtleties in body language#he grows up as best friends with Celebrimbor and they often go traveling together too#maeglin loves finding cool rocks and gems and Celebrimbor loves to turn them into weapons or jewelry theyre a team#this whole au is just an excuse to give maeglin healthy family ties and relationships#also to let aredhel live for a little bjt longer and not have such a shit life#also cause of this celegorm would be sick of the thought of locking up a wife cause he saw what it did to his favorite cousin#so he never tries to steal Luthien but she still steals his dog so he wants to kill her for that#their whole quest has the ever present feeling of eyes watching them cause celegorm is slowly hunting them down to get dog#he catches up to find out his dog is dead and he RAGES and luthien has to kick him in the nuts and call him an asshole before running off#celegorm takes GREAT pleasure in sacking Diorath after that cause that little shits mom got his dog killed#elwings twin brothers actually get found by Mae in this too and in a panic he brings them to Aredhel in the dead of night#she takes them in and as acting High Queen of the Noldor she also throttles Mae a little too for that bullshit#but celegorm curufin and Caranthir are dead and so many other family members are too and she knows what the Oath is like#cause they have all talked about its lingering Shadow in their hearts and also knows that the silmarils have a bit of their father in them#so she manages to bully/negotiate the silmaril for the princes and also hints that the reason bad things happen to those who hold it#is because feanor himself haunts those stones and wants to be reunites with his sons but it was tainted by morgoth#also it Rightfully belongs to the Noldor and she will not help twice over theives when their punishment comes to their door
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