Lúthien in Rewind
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"By now the information's gotten around. I should be able to get ahold of the President and figure out how to introduce you. Obligatory culture shock reminder."

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"The King is very levelheaded and I expect he'll have no trouble coping."

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"Good, good."

So Bella manages with some doing to get ahold of the President and finds herself assigned an attaché and arranges a diplomatic visit.

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The King and his retinue manage to avoid causing any offense and work begins on trade relations between the Noldor and the United States. 

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And then Bella winds up as something of a go-between for a lot of other countries who want in on the trade relations with the aliens too. So busy! She hasn't even begun colonizing Mars yet!

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The Noldor will trade with everybody! They have a serious internal debate over whether they'll trade with places that have prisons, when they find out that prisons exist, but are eventually satisfied that humans are different or something and this is probably not literally monstrous.

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...also, like, everybody has prisons.

Do any other people on Arda want to establish contact with Earth?

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Dwarves: also very enthusiastic about trade! Even more than the Noldor; the Noldor seem to be doing it because it's the responsible way to make contact with aliens, but the Dwarves seem to think it's delightful in its own right.

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The Dwarves seem like they will probably get along with humans. Bella puts 'em in touch.

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Dwarves think humans are pretty fantastic. Much better than Elves.

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That's cute.

And after a while the witch population is down to nothing and the ex-witches are in something Lórien-like wished into existence in the Outback and the fluffs are operating mood disorder treatment centers with low prices and high satisfaction rates and the economy is having an extremely productive seizure and Lúthien is not the only teleporter around and how about Mars huh, or it doesn't even have to be Mars, there could be a more already-habitable planet around!

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There is! She has no idea where this place is but it's lovely!

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They can take pictures of the stars and give them to astronomers and the astronomers will figure it out probably. Nice place. It will need a name.

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Does she have anything in mind?

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She's sort of tempted by a mythology reference of some kind but isn't committed to that and doesn't have a specific one she likes best.

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Earth gods seem more metaphor-name suitable than Arda's gods, who actually exist. She hasn't seen Valinor yet, maybe they should change that sometime.

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Bella has sort of developed the impression that Valinor is intensely isolationist.

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"...yeah. But I have a teleport, what are they going to do about it?"

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"Be... gods... at us? I don't know how the power levels stack up if they decide they're offended."

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"I guess it's not worth risking but I am pretty sure what they'd do is summon us for a scolding. 

 

I still need to ask someone if anything bad happens if I marry a girl."

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"...uh, I asked Fingon and he says there's no reason and nothing happens. At least not for a really long time."

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"Oh, good. Because, you know, watching you fix everything, just like you wished, so many things, so thoughtfully- I just kept thinking 'well, whatever happens you'd probably just fix that too'."

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...Bella giggles. "I mean, I don't think I qualify as omnipotent... yet..."

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"What a shame. We'll get there."

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"Eventually!"

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