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and this part was for her, this part was for her (does she remember?) by poeticmemory for eye_of_a_cat
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Aug 2024
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He waits her out, but she wins, she always wins, if only because he can no longer bear the struggle. Far better to willingly acquiesce than to submit under duress. This is the lesson she teaches him, day after day after day. His ego yields automatically, folding in favor of love, in favor of her, for the sake of their marriage.
It does not hurt that she is so pliable in the aftermath, so readily bending to the will of the hands she chose freely— freely, he reminds himself. He will not be her jailer, she cannot force him to fit the shape that suits her story best, to play his role as written in this ongoing drama conceived in her darkest days.
Celeborn suspects, in the weakest of moments, where he is spent yet unable to find rest, that she would much rather learn the touch of another.
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The world is changing, she whispers into his soul, too close, far too close for comfort, and he did not agree to this.Or: Celeborn tries to come to terms with his wife’s past— and his growing suspicion that her feelings for Sauron still linger.