Lúthien in Rewind
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Well, I mean, I'd rescue you, you'd have to wait like an hour tops.

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I am pretty sure I couldn't be hurt much in an hour.

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But before we had you it was a legitimate worry. I told you one of the Noldo warlords rescued another but he had the Valar helping and some people say the Enemy probably let him succeed. Father couldn't have done it with our whole army and it would've been wrong to try.

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Why aren't the Valar helping more than occasional would-be jailbreakers?

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Last time they intervened directly two of the world's continents crumbled into the sea. If it gets bad enough that that looks worth it, they'll intervene again. But right now it's a sort of quiet stalemate, wouldn't be worth it.

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Can't evacuate the affected continents?

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I'm sure they'll try, if it comes to that. Even on divine command people don't like to leave their homes and march a thousand miles. 

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I feel like divine beings should be able to improve on the marching part.

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They don't have the relevant kind of power. They could raise an island out of the sea for us to live on, but they couldn't just lift a couple hundred thousand people and their possessions off the ground and set them down somewhere safer. Most of their powers are very slow-working or very local.

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Good thing I am planning to obviate this problem directly enough that I don't have to plan to stop time and then telekinesis a couple hundred thousand people across an ocean.

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Yeah, your powers are much more suited to this problem.

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I suppose 'better able to do certain important things than a god' does not make me good enough for you?

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Power doesn't impress my parents much. Not that there are other things which do.

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So being an Valian Elf king is doing what here?

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Assumed inherent hobility of character? Though that's a silly assumption, the Noldor come from Valinor.

Being able to protect me does count for a lot.

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Probably not enough to compensate for all the other stuff though.

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I know I shouldn't care what they think.

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I didn't say that. I mean, if nothing else their disapproval could be really practically inconvenient and I'm also assuming you love them and stuff.

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I do. And I love Doriath and it'd be really hard just saying goodbye to everything forever. I sort of think they'll come around. Eventually. But it'd take a very long time.

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Like hundreds of years long.

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We don't have to wait for them. We could get married in Canada and then go to Mars and then in hundreds of years they'll come around.

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We could theoretically do that.

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I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit.

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Little bit, yeah.

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