Maybe he's manipulating them.

Wait, what Enemy?

One of the Valar used to be evil and he's now on probation but he's still, like, a Vala who used to be evil and my father does not trust him.

That sounds more than reasonable. Not trusting him, I mean, not paroling an evil god.

Well, the alternative was eternal imprisinment which also kind of sucks. But yeah.

I don't really know enough about the situation to comment any more, I guess. Eternal imprisonment would suck, I'll grant.

He hasn't done anything since he was paroled, to be fair.

Unless he's manipulating your uncle.

Or working for him. 

Either way.

What would we do about it? I'm not going to try to play politics with my uncle. Even Maitimo can't reliably outmanuever him though Maitimo's kind of handicapped by having to work on behalf of my father who hates everyone involved. 

I dunno, be generically suspicious and mention anything suspicious we see to someone who could do anything about it?

Not a bad idea but it requires spending time in Tirion where the suspicious things are occurring, and Tirion sucks. 

Convince my sister to be generically suspicious if she ends up studying there?

I get the sense she'll really like it. And yeah, that we can do. 

Doesn't surprise me at all. Imliss loves beautiful things.

And learning things and at a guess she'd be excited by people stopping her in the street because they've never seen the make of clothes like that and will she entertain their speculations about how to replicate it and stuff. 

That totally sounds like the kind of thing she'd enjoy.

So she'll like Tirion. I'm being a bit unfair to the place, it's all right. It'd be great if not for literally the whole population. 

You're allowed to have different likes and dislikes from other people. It can be the kind of place that would make Imliss happy and you unhappy without presenting any kind of logical paradox.

What are you talking about? My tastes are objective fact. You, for example, are objectively the prettiest girl in Valinor. 

If you're not considered absurdly pretty for your species I can only take that as the highest compliment possible.

He kisses her nose. Absurdly pretty? Me?

You are the most beautiful person I've ever laid eyes upon, I think I've mentioned this.

And I said I shouldn't take you to meet Maitimo. Not that he will steal you. Maitimo romances everyone and wants no one, as far as I can tell. 

What does that mean?