Okay.

Follow follow.

And Lúthien explains to her father how wishes work and how the reset point works and he offers at once to wish for a reset point for them in Doriath. Somewhere guarded, though, he says, so if you're ever under Enemy mindcontrol and reset...

...should I not point out that we can teleport and stop time and this makes guarding us if we're hostile silly? Maybe someone else should just wish us immune to mind control as long as they can be precise enough to not include the happiness song.

That's a good idea.

She suggests that. He suggests they just wish themselves immune to all magical workings of the Enemy or anyone who serves him. And he wishes them a reset point in Lúthien's rooms, no guards.

That is good of him. If he wishes it for before the time he makes this wish his wish can remain a free variable, like the person who wished Lúthien into Bella's loop.

Sure, he'll wish it for an hour ago. He hopes they never need to reset, though. They should just stay in Doriath where it's safe and give wishes to other, more experienced people to do the fighting.

Bella and Lúthien are the only people who can guarantee that they have happiness song capability on hand at all times. And Bella's experienced at magic fighting.

Anyone else can sing the happiness song. And Bella could do it herself, really, couldn't she? She doesn't need to drag Lúthien along.

Lúthien can teleport and that is really useful and also Lúthien can't reset the loop herself except through dying so just in case Bella would prefer to know her whereabouts not that she's impugning the safety of Doriath or anything.

She seems likely to be safer in Doriath than in the middle of a fight.

The point is that if anything happens she's definitely safe in Doriath an hour ago, and Bella can only be sure of the ability to put her there/then as-needed if she can identify as-neededness.

Okay. What are the two of them planning to do, once Doriath's had time to celebrate having its princess back?

Find people with particularly emotional reactions to 'hey, want to wish the Enemy dead' and offer them the chance to do that, spot-clean other problems. Suggestions on candidates?

Everyone desires the Enemy dead; perhaps she could ask people whose loved ones suffered at his hands?

Sounds promising. Especially if the loved ones are still alive because wishes can do resurrections...

I am unsure that resurrecting people who died after suffering at the hands of the Enemy is wise.

Most of them beg you to kill them, Lúthien explains.

If we ever think of a way to solve that problem these people might want to have saved their wishes.

Okay.

If there's no one in Doriath I bet all the Noldor'd try wishing the Enemy dead, and I feel less bad about them missing out on other wishes.

I can't think of a good reason to have a lot of people try directly wishing him dead; if the one who gets the highest emotional reading on it can't pull it off it's time to try breaking the problem into pieces.

Fair enough. Want to get some peoples' emotional readings on it?

Yeah. I'm hoping for a high five or a six by the fluff scoring system.

So they go and find some people whose families died in the war and ask them how badly they want the Enemy dead.

Couple fours at the highest. Lots of ones and twos, some threes.

Want to leave Doriath for the first time in my life?

You mean besides all that not being in Doriath you did on Earth? Sure. You know where to put us?