An Emily and Elves in Middle-Earth
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"I might avoid verbally repeating the adjectives but no, I don't think I'd have trouble there."

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"Then I do not expect you'll have to lie. Our sister was very good friends with Celegorm; she managed to live in Gondolin without any notable disasters for a few hundred years, so it's doable."

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"Oh, that's a good point. Why did she live in Gondolin?"

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"Our brother needed someone. My niece needed someone. She - she's an adventurous person, I can't imagine she'd have been happy there, but there wasn't anyone else and our brother was just barely holding on for his daughter's sake and we were all new to being necessary, let alone desperately needed."

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"Ah. Well.

Maybe she'll choose to live somewhere else once she and your sister-in-law are both alive again, who knows."

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"I'm nearly certain she will. Celegorm and she will probably spend a few centuries just surveying the whole continent, actually."

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"Maybe. I've promised Celegorm to show him some of the nicer places I've seen on my world, when the war's over and I've reestablished contact."

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"Oooh. That might be even more tempting."

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"My world has a lot of beautiful places."

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"And they are both of them adventurous sorts and came here longing to see lands outside Valinor, and have had precious little chance to, what with the war."

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"I'm really looking forward to meeting her."

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"I expect you'll get along. She'll be wildly envious of you. Are you bringing back her husband?"

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"Nope."

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"Are there a lot of people you're not bringing back for similar reasons?"

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"Mind, I'm not sure there should be. There aren't many stories like that one among our people."

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"If someone tells me, 'my spouse coerced me into marrying them and because of the soul thing I will have to deal with them if you bring them back, please don't do that,' I will be strongly inclined to listen to them but so far no other cases have in fact come to my attention."

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"Coerced oaths, including coerced marriages, are considered an evil greater than murder. I don't think you'll hear other cases."

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"I certainly hope not."

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"Also, people being alive who belong dead is at least solvable. If necessary."

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"Isn't that likely to get the word 'Kinslaying' bandied about?"

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"My brother executed our sister's husband. Kinslayings are mass violence. Though a lawless killer might acquire the title anyway. And I don't know if anyone's settled whether killing Kinslayers is Kinslaying." He shakes his head. 

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"Your politics is kind of terrible."

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"We have never lived in a situation that wasn't 'absolute peace' or 'total war'. It makes some things slow to develop. We're aware of the shortcomings."

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"For what it's worth I congratulate you on the peace part."

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