our souls real enough to burn by atlantablack

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Fanwork Notes

Content Warnings:

  • canon-typical violence 
  • references to Celegorm's crimes against Luthien

Originally posted in March 2025 on AO3

Fanwork Information

Summary:

“Dior, son of Luthien,” Námo intones, “you do not belong in these halls. I will show you the way to where your path is meant to lead.”

Celegorm looks to Dior and tilts his head in curiosity at the defiant look being directed at Námo. “No,” Dior says, voice hard. “I feel no call to follow the path of men. I will stay in the halls with my kin.”

“I was not presenting it as a choice,” Námo says severely and Celegorm frowns. Sees Curufin across the room shaking his head and gesturing for Celegorm to join him. He thinks to but then looks at Dior again and gets distracted by the look on his face.

An animal backed into a corner, his mind supplies, glancing down at the way Dior’s fingers are beginning to press into Celegorm’s fëa  from how hard he is gripping Celegorm’s wrist.

Dior bares his teeth. “I was not either."

Major Characters: Dior, Celegorm, Nimloth

Major Relationships: Dior/Nimloth, Celegorm/Dior/Nimloth

Genre: Drama

Challenges:

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 5, 397
Posted on 28 March 2025 Updated on 6 April 2025

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inspired by me reading this post on tumblr and in the tags someone mentioned that Dior and Celegorm would reach the halls at the same time & then I thought about this post

title is from the poem "Ode to Oxytocin at a Distance" by Traci Brimhall


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