True Priorities by Himring

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Fanwork Notes

Drabble according to MS Word.

Obviously, "outcome of the Hunting of the Wolf" implies a number of canonical character deaths...

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Celegorm's first reaction on hearing about the outcome of the Hunting of the Wolf in Doriath.

Major Characters: Celegorm

Major Relationships:

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges:

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Expletive Language
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 101
Posted on 5 November 2011 Updated on 5 November 2011

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Chapter 1

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The messenger finishes speaking. Everyone in the room goes tense.

Will he mourn the woman he once wished to marry?

Will he gloat over the death of the man who thwarted him?

Will he storm and rail because Thingol now holds a Silmaril?

Celegorm jumps up. The chair crashes to the ground. Four steps take him over to the southward window. He flings open the casement and howls out into the night.

At first, they cannot make out what he is saying. Then the words become comprehensible:

‘Luthien! Damn you, Luthien! Couldn’t you have taken better care of my dog?!’

Chapter End Notes

Previously posted on LiveJournal. Now re-posted here as a true drabble.

I'm still unsure about the title. The earlier title was: "His First Reaction", which was probably too neutral. An alternative title I considered is: "Grief Is The Funniest Thing", which is probably not neutral enough.

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This really breaks my heart, as the relationship between Huan and Celegorm is one of the purest int he Silmarillion, in my opinion - I was rather pissed when Huan without warning suddenly betrayed my dearest Tyelcormo.

I think too that after everything that happened, this is the hardest blow for Celegorm yet - by defeating him and Curufin Lúthien showed that she had the strenght to care for Huan, that she somehow deserved his loyalty, so to say, and that in his eyes she's failed in her single most important task.

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It is really a very hard blow for Celegorm, I think. And I do think (on some level, at least) Luthien had gained his respect and so he had expected her to protect Huan as much as Huan tried to protect her.

You could argue that Huan didn't really leave Celegorm quite without warning, though. At any rate, he went back to him, the first time.