Celebrian Character Notes Desperate Hours AU
Celebrian Character Notes Desperate Hours AU
Appearance etc.:
Celebrian has long, soft silver curls and bright blue-green eyes. Her hair is as silver as the light of Telperion in her mother's hair, and her eyes are just slightly more blue than her father's emerald green eyes.
I see Celebrian as looking somewhat like the actress Lily James, as she does in the movies Cinderella and Mamma Mia 2. Celebrian in her fierce moods and when she is fighting resembles Lily James in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, only blonde.
Celebrian smells like bluebells in a soft spring time breeze. Her mind voice feels like the brush of cherry blossom petals in a gentle zephyr.
Personality, professional affiliations etc.:
Celebrian is both highly intelligent and highly emotionally intelligent. She is clever as well, both about how people work, and about the ways in which the world works (and how it could work differently if it was tweaked just so).
Celebrian and Elrond are best friends, lovers, and co-rulers.
Like her father Celeborn, Celebrian has more common sense than most of their family members. Celebrian helps Elrond take life less seriously and be less anxious. He is happier and more productive when she is with him.
Celebrian is close friends with her mother Galadriel, despite their very different personalities. Celebrian makes Galadriel laugh and helps her come up with creative, kind, and sometimes even mischievous solutions to her problems, ones which she wouldn't think of on her own. Galadriel makes Celebrian think deeply and hold fast to herself and her dreams. They laugh a lot when they are together.
Like Galadriel, Celebrian is an elf whom others underestimate only at their great peril.
Celeborn and and Celebrian are close friends, too. He taught her how to fight, hunt, lead, and play chess. She is the apple of her father's eye. He could only have given her willingly in marriage to a being whom he trusts, loves, and respects as much as he does his great-nephew, Elrond. Even so, Celeborn was unhappy at first to realize that Celebrian wanted to marry Elrond, because he feared that the Enemy's hatred of Elrond would be visited also upon Elrond's spouse, and he already worried enough over the Enemy's hatred of Elrond on Elrond's own behalf.
Celebrian achieved journeyman or higher status in over thirty-seven different disciplines, including weapon-smithing and jewelry-smithing, but never bothered to continue on and achieve a mastery in any discipline until after she sailed to the West. This breadth of experience served Celebrian well as Lady of Imladris and sometimes-Regent of Imladris.
Family and Friends/Relationships:
Celebrian is married to her double cousin Elrond. They have five (or six) children: the twins Elrohir and Elladan, Andreth (a daughter), Belemir (a son) and Arwen (and they consider Arwen's husband Aragorn, who was Elrond's last foster-son on Middle Earth, also to be their son). They are also parents-in-law to Andreth's husband Gelmir, Belemir's human wife Rossidhiel, and later, in the late 4th Age, to Elrohir's wife Rissaurel Ereinionhil, and Elladan's wife Ciryawende Ereinionhen.
Their grandchildren include Eldarion, Melyanna, Gilwen, Faramir (by adoption), and Grace Gelmiriel.
Their grandchildren-in-law include their granddaughter Grace's husband, their sons' blood-brother, Melpomaen Erestorion and Solarion.
Their great-grandchildren include Faramir's daughter, Mithiriel, who is married to Elurin Diorchil's grandson, Ecthelion 'Theli' Diorchil and Nestorionhen.
Celebrian and Elrond have been 'in love' to some degree or another since relatively early in the Fourth Age, not long after Celebrian achieved her first Yen (turned 144 years old). They did not meet until Celebrian's first trip to Lindon, which did not take place until after her 144th birthday in part because Celeborn was afraid that Celebrian would see the sea and experience the sea-longing (which she did not). Celebrian and Elrond made tentative plans to marry about forty-five minutes after they first met, much to Erestor's bemused surprise. See draft notes for "Late, a Mess, and Barely Repentant." Out of my posted stories, see “Reclaiming” and “Happy Narbeleth, Hir Elrond” in “Tales of the Elves of Imladris.”
Relationships: Erestor:
Celebrian befriended Erestor when they were elflings in Eregion, Celebrian is just a few years older than Erestor. Erestor is one of Celebrian's dearest friends, and her sworn brother.
Relationships: her best friends and principal ladies-in-waiting:
These include Erestor’s wife, Taminixie, Lillassea and Mireth (who is Celebrian’s healer, and one of African Daisy’s and Kaylee’s OCs whom I borrow).
Timeline:
Celebrian was born in Evendim, then lived in Khazad-dum, then in Eregion. Little elfling Celebrian's encounter with a dangerous Enemy spirit just outside the Evendim settlement is what made Galadriel and Celeborn pack up Evendim lock, stock, and barrel and move it to Khazad-dum, and then Eregion.