I have nothing against plural marriage or divorce or sacrilege, I'm not super in favor of non-consensual adultery but don't think it should be a legal matter, and I'm very much in favor of non-Valar resurrection.

Then your work will be done at least among my people by vaguely communicating you're trying one of those wild liberal states, and people will feel free to move there for many reasons other than being personally homosexual.

Heh. Wild liberal state. We are also likely to just announce ourselves as co-empresses and Lúthien thinks the desired subset may read between the lines.

That should work also. If you're more blatant than that there'll be a lot of pressure on the King to stop people with underage children from emigrating to your state.

Is there a specific ostensible concern, there...?

Gay people abuse children, don't you know. 

I've heard. Well, more often 'molest' in particular. Could've been different here.

I think the general assumption here is that if you don't care about being a good person enough to follow a law as important as 'don't be gay', then you may as well be assumed to be totally immoral. It was once explained to me that by the time you were taking men to bed it scarcely mattered as to your character if they were consenting men.

Nation-building going smoothly otherwise?

Slower than projected. Because Lúthien keeps kissing her whenever Bella starts doing nationbuilding tasks. Probably going to be a little awkward to disentangle myself from the States to the point where they acknowledge that I have done that, too.

You owe them fealty?

More like I owe them taxes. ...Which is a flippant oversimplification, but I'm probably going to need a lawyer to produce summaries that aren't flippant oversimplifications.

Best of luck. I have a whole file of ideal constitutions for Elven societies, if they seem like to be of any help. It used to be a hobby.

Could be handy!

So he gives them to her. Human societies probably have different needs, and I tend because of aesthetic preference towards 'absolute power, absolute exit rights' as the check on the governor, but there you are.

I get the inclination, although I do want some way for people to anticipate how I will use my infinite discretion even if it is de jure infinite.

Very reasonable. I think you'll be good at this, by the way, or I would be offering more guidance.

Thanks! Although I won't turn down advice even if it's redundant or only saves me an hour or something if you have any you want to offer.

So he lists the challenges they had when arriving and trying to settle Beleriand, depopulated as it had been by the war, and the shortcuts to a decent standard of living at a low tech level if she turns out to be bottlenecked in introducing Earth's modern conveniences, and dispute resolution without a common language, and major problems that arise when Men and Elves live together - 'I ended up making it illegal for my people to sleep with Men, I am guessing you do not intend to go that route' -

...no, not especially. I mean, general mortality solution's within sight, so there's that.

That'll solve a lot of the problem. So will the solutions Earth has to accidental children. 

They are imperfect but generally good enough, yeah.

I have nothing on how to govern humans. We have a very loose treaty with them and that's it. We'll all be watching your model to learn from, if you can sort out how to make it work -

I'll do my best. You don't even know how the humans here govern themselves?