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"It doesn't work. It might be worth the risk if you happen to personally keep a garden and use seeds you harvest yourself every year."

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"Haven't had much time for gardening. Are there other things you would expect to go wrong with this plan?"

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"Assuming no one force feeds me or incapacitates me - I don't think I'm much harder than a mortal to render unconscious except no amount of drowning will do it - and I have the names of enough people that they can prevent everyone whose name I don't have from shooting a hole through my wing or anything - I don't suppose there's any obvious reason it wouldn't work."

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"I know a few hundred names," he says, "of people who ought to be there, most of them important people. If I tell you the name will you fit it to the person when you see it, or do I need to send you names and faces?"

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"I have to know which person you mean - faces would do it - and entertain the correct hypothesis about their name and then I'll know if it's right or not."

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"How badly am I hurting you if I order you to do this?"

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"Depends on how free a hand I have to order the people intelligently as opposed to on a rigid plan, and whether you continue to intend to leave them alone after you have your thing. I don't - I don't intrinsically object to having names, all that does by itself is make it so they can't hurt me - and I'm assuming they'd rather not die -"

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"I think they'd rather not die. You can ask them. I will need to talk this over with my brother but I currently intend to order you to do whatever you think retrieves the Silmaril best, not to do anything more specific, and I can promise to leave them alone once the Silmaril is in our hands."

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"I don't understand why you're under the oath to get the Silmaril in the first place but as long as you are this is better than massacring them."

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"We were very young and naive and thought it was only our own lives we were staking. Thank you." He stands. "Do you prefer that I tell you when I'll be back when I leave, or give you some notice when I'm returning, or what?"

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"Notice would be nice."

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"All right." And he walks away.

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She draws for hours.

And then she goes to have a look at the books.
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The books are very pretty and all very old. Most of them are technical reference books.

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References for how to technically do what?

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Glassblowing, syntax and language, metalworking, magic metalworking. The author has put his name inside the books. It is Curufinwë Fëanáro.

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She was not forbidden to think about names. Second half of the first name goes snap.

Syntax and language is bewildering; mortals talk weird. She is interested in the magic metalworking though.
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No one interrupts her until evening, when he comes back with food. He sees her engrossed in the books. "Learned my name?"

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"Yes."

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"If you ever ever figure out a way to use it to take me prisoner, or a way to help someone else do that, I order you not to do it and to warn me immediately. If you ever figure out a way to communicate it to someone else I order you to stop them from getting it by any means necessary. If someone else has it, stop them from taking me prisoner. If you cannot stop them from taking me prisoner, kill me."

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"I literally cannot kill you even if you order me to."

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"Then get me the means to kill myself, or order someone who can to do it."

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Twitch.

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"If there's something I'd be interested in hearing on that topic, say it."

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"I don't want to have to order anyone to kill you."

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