Silvergifting Week - Alternate Universe

Silvergifting Week - Alternate Universe

University AU! after a bit of thinking on what I should do, I ended up settling on this because I was like 'ah, i've just graduated uni may as well', and I though it would fit their characters.

I imagine they're studying at The University of Oxford or something cuz Tolkien was once a professor there, and also I grew up in Oxfordshire and know Oxford city pretty well lmao

Regardless. I think Celebrimbor himself comes from London, and comes from a super mega rich family, so man grew up in a mansion in london (so, absurd amount of money). but also, he's very lowkey about it, and too embarrassed to bring it up. no one assumes he is a rich boy from how he acts.

Mairon on the other hand I imagine being a middle or upper-middle class dude from some rural farm town up north. Mega goody-two shoes, very up himself, kind of insufferable, but also a genius.

anyway, these two end up being massive academic rivals, or at least, they are rivals from Mairon's point of view. Mairon can't stand not being top of his class, so when there is a dude who does better than him, you can trust that he is plotting out hundreds of ways in which he can murder him.

would write a fic if i had the motivation but i do not, so im just gonna leave it at that.

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