The Most Valuable Resource by herenortherenearnorfar

Fanwork Notes

First off, I would like to make it very clear that while this story got incredibly dark in many ways, it is not romantic in the slightest. Just an immortal from the dawn of time trying to figure out how children work with an appropriately ironic test subject who he might work with/brutally murder in another timeline.

Second, I would like to apologize. I started out with some vague thoughts about how elf children, with their built in Stress Death Switch, much have a much lower trauma threshold than human children and how that was probably a mixed blessing back in Beleriand. Then it turned into The Worst Nanny w. Sauron and a baby Celebrimbor. Then I accidentally back-engineered my own concept of a characterization for Curufin's wife and now I love her.

I tried to use regular Silmarillion names wherever possible for the sake of clarity, but a few stayed Quenya by necessity. I apologize for this most of all.

Fanwork Information

Summary: The children of elves die easily, for their souls are thinly bound to their bodies and their fate is to endure but not survive. So when faced with a young hostage he really can't afford to let fade away, Sauron is very careful not to do anything too traumatizing. (Mostly.) Luckily Feanor's grandson is an interesting child to babysit. Major Characters: Celebrimbor, Sauron Major Relationships: Celebrimbor & Sauron Genre: General Challenges: Rating: Teens Warnings: Child Abuse, Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1	Word Count: 13, 832
Posted on 2 January 2019	Updated on 12 July 2021
This fanwork is complete.