Lúthien in Rewind
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"Let's go get my dad."

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To his dad!

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His dad has coaxed Lorien into giving him directions out of Lorien, and is headed for its border at a light jog when Luthien pops them in.

He sees Celegorm and sweeps him into a hug and does not let go of him while demanding everything be explained.

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Hi. I'm from another world and have magic powers which combined with some other magic powers allowed me to bargain for yet more magic powers and now I'm fixing everything with 'em. Welcome back to life.

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Congratulations. Another world? Where? What's it like?

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It's not contiguously located, seems to be a parallel universe kind of deal. My planet's got a few billion humans and other planets have got aliens none of whom have emotions.

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What languages are spoken on your planet?

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Loads. I don't have a complete list on hand since lots of them are really obscure. My native language is English and that'll get you by a lot of the more developed places.

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I'll start by learning that one, then - how would I say 'there are multiple dimensions have we started systemic exploration of any other ones yet'- 

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Bella laughs. She remembers how to do osanwë undertranslation from reading to Lúthien. "'There are multiple dimensions, have we started systemic exploration of any other ones yet?' And no, not yet."

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What are we waiting for? Some more of them might need saving! "Any other dimensions? Any other Melkors?"

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"Waiting for these ones to be squared away a bit better. Still don't have a general solution to death for species that don't go to Mandos, f'rinstance. My world didn't have a Melkor, but some of the aliens were destructively harvesting the emotions of teenage girls as a power source and now they are doing this more humanely instead, there's that."

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"Some of the aliens were destructively harvesting the emotions of teenage girls. Some of the teenage girls were doing a general solution to death?"

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"...no, although a few of the brighter ones did resurrect individuals when they got the the chance, the emotion-powered magic runs on wishes."

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"Some of the wishes are systemically exploring other dimensions? Some of the brighter ones are teenage girls?"

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"...am I supposed to treat those as questions about their content or about their grammar?"

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"Questions about the grammar!"

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"The grammar's fine in both cases but it'd be very irregular for a wish to go exploring on its own."

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"It'd be very irregular for I to go exploring dimensions?"

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"You want 'me' not 'I' in that sentence."

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"I want to go exploring dimensions? It would be irregular for me to go exploring dimensions? I want to go to Earth, I want to go harvest the emotions of teenage girls - humanely - I want Tyelcormo and Maitimo and Macalaure and Carnistir and Curufinwe and Ambarussa -"

 

"Thought you'd get there eventually," Celegorm says. "Most of us are in one piece."

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"...uh, what would you want the emotions of teenage girls for, however humanely, or is that just another grammar check?"

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I cannot think of anything that requires the emotions of teenage girls, don't worry. I have an interestingly restricted vocabulary at the moment. "What do evil aliens want the emotions of teenage girls for?"

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"Power source. They were running entire civilizations on it. Lúthien showed up and had a happiness song which constitutes an infinite energy hack so now they are instead running on the byproducts of the consensual treatment of mood disorders and they traded me the thing they used to grant wishes for it. The wishes established a high-end benchmark for the emotions and then eventually we'd run out of magic and turn into despair monsters and it was this entire screwed up ecology they were siphoning bits off."

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"Evil indeed. What civilizations are they running? Nice ones?"

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