Lúthien in Rewind
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Bella spells all the things.

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So there you are. I can tell you whatever I know but I don't know what you'd need most.

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Well, the obvious general approaches are 'support existing anti-Enemy forces' and 'surgical strike with magic he doesn't see coming'; what's your opinion of the viability of each?

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I like the second one better. The existing anti-Enemy forces do a good job keeping him besieged up north but I don't think they have a plan to actually defeat him. Of course, if they do they might not have told us about it. Also, the existing anti-Enemy forces are the Noldor and there are problems with giving them guns and things.

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Okay. Has he got any known vulnerabilities of any kind?

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Not really, no. 

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...well, that makes 'surgical' less of an option.

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...yeah. Um, destroying his body would set him back a lot. We could steal the Silmarils, I don't know if he's using them for magic somehow, or even if they are more magic than 'shine prettily'. My mom might have ideas.

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What distinguishes his body from some regular person's body?

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He can make it out of whatever he wants, and probably made it really difficult to injure. 

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But in like ordinary, physics ways, like 'lots of fancily arranged carbon', or like some kind of magic ward I don't know how hard it might be to crack? We should maybe try having me directly oppose some magic you sing up.

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Ooohhh, good idea. Definitely magic, probably also lots of fancily arranged carbon.

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I can try to fend you off from purifying water maybe, or the warmth thing, I bet I have a thermometer in here somewhere.

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Okay!

She waits for Bella to find her thermometer.

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Bella finds her thermometer, and takes the ambient temperature, and - What area do you cover?

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What I want, up to about the distance between here and that hillside.

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I'd normally consider it inefficient to try to cool that area, but I have infinity charge now and the really interesting result would be if I can't make any progress or if you can't - how warm do you get a place unopposed?

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Comfortably warm, if that's what I'm aiming for. I've never tried using it as a weapon and I don't think I could get hotter than 'uncomfortably warm'.

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Try it without me doing anything, first, and I'll get that numerical - we can repeat this another day under different baseline conditions, too.

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Okay.

 

And singing.

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So pretty. What's the thermometer say?

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Seventy-five Fahrenheit.

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Okay. And how fast does it dissipate to what it was before when Lúthien stops singing?

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Pretty slowly; couple hours. But I think that's not magic, it's just that a warm area will take that long to cool down.

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Yeah, I don't know enough to say otherwise. When it's back to temperature Bella first takes the opportunity to try charging up while timestopped.

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