Lúthien in Rewind
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Not really. Even if I'd given her a phone it wouldn't work here, no infrastructure. Unless Himring's osanwë-range away from Angband?

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There were reasons to make sure it wasn't, when we built it.

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Yeah, fair enough. You have relays so you can send them instructions or you got them the news to expect teleporters some other way?

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We have relays. We can ask Luthien to come in.

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And a minute later she lands outside the door and knocks on it.

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Out comes Bella. "Can you translate me a few things? Fingon's wish is likely to result in sketchy powers and he gave me an oath about their use."

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She confirms, with vague unease, that the wording of the wish is the agreed-upon one. He definitely has a couple hundred thousand mortal vassals and he let the other one do all the rumor-refuting...

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Good point. Would Fingon like to address this concern.

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I don't sleep with them. We do use them as foot soldiers. War is terrible but there was rather too much at stake to keep everyone out of harm's way, and every engagement we had had more Elven than mortal casualties. Now that the Enemy's dead that won't be necessary and the demobilization plans involve sending everyone who wants to go home home. All emigration to Dor Lomin, the human settlement under my command, was voluntary, there weren't any humans there to start out, and everyone who chose to move there was as fully informed as we could make them.

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Does Lúthien want to pop up with any more rumors to address?

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You're supposed to be in charge of the other Noldorin kingdoms, though, she says, and you know the things I've heard about go on there...

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Yep. I could start a war over them, and haven't thought it worth it so far. Now that the war's over we can bring a lot more pressure to bear.

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What form of pressure over what?

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The...mistreatment of vassals... Luthien's concerned about. We'll probably start by just offering the vassals a nicer place to live, and if they're not permitted to emigrate or something we'll try trade sanctions.

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...well, I suppose excess conservatism isn't the sort of thing it makes sense to deny magic powers over.

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I've seen three hundred years of war and am not eager to start one, even over terrible injustices. If you see an obvious avenue for your magic to fix it faster, you have an eager audience.

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Would they start a war over their prevented-from-emigrating population being teleported away?

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Unlikely, and definitely not if the extent of the new powers that allowed teleporting-away were unknown.

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So there's that. When the orcs are on their new planet, anyway. Incidentally they are sworn to hate Elves but agree that magic rocks operating Elflike bodies are not Elves.

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Convenient. We'll be sure to call on Luthien if we can't get complete freedom of movement on the continent otherwise. 

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Or the human teleporters I dig up for interdimensional trade stuff yeah.

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In that case it sounds like there shouldn't be much problem solving Luthien's grievances everywhere/

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Sounds like.

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Do you want more attentional capacity and an eidetic memory too? Wishing it for three people might not be much harder than for two.

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