#some more historically educated smartass teenager: yet you use a thorn in 'serinde'

[tanoraqui]

I like to think that, much as Aral Vorkosigan of the Vorkosigan Saga gives a yearly lecture to military academy students on honor and when it’s important and required to disobey illegal orders, sometime starting in the Third Age, returned!Celebrimbor gives a lecture once a decade or so to apprentices of every craft on What Not To Do in Sub-Creation. It consists mostly of these slides:

Sometimes someone raises their hand on slide 1 and asks, “Didn’t you die shortly after the creation of the Three Rings?” “Study your history more closely!” Celebrimbor says. “Yes, I did, but for mostly unrelated reasons which we’ll address in a couple slides.” Usually someone raises their hand later and asks, “Does that mean, logically, it is also a bad idea to create something whose destruction removes your future creative ability?” “Good logic!” Celebrimbor answers. “Yes, it does - though I know of no illustrative examples of that...yet. If it’s possible to do, I’m sure I’ll find out eventually, and return (perhaps from Mandos) to add it to this lecture.”

#celebrimbor #the silmarillion #eldar #headcanon accepted #unrelatedly: elves DEFINITELY invent powerpoint are you kidding #via overhead projectors first or something but i figure they make their way up to digital stuff and electronics eventually #probably skipping steam/coal/oil as power sources and going directly to solar power (they already know how to collect sunlight for light #i'm sure converting it to electrical wiring wouldn't be that hard) #projection is all about LIGHT and elves like light so much. they'd make ELABORATE ARTWORK using projected light #and also powerpoint presentations #second age shenaniganry #feanor and feanor's kin #belated tag addition: #celebrimbor: feanor was a mistake #some teenager: wasn't he your grandfather? / celebrimbor: i said what i said #some more historically educated smartass teenager: yet you use a thorn in 'serinde' #celebrimbor who IS still curufinwe son of curufinwe son of curufinwe: i'm not a fucking monster. it's the name she preferred