"I wouldn't count on it."

"Forever is a really long time."

"It's a really long time but if you don't have a way to address why he did that in the first place it will probably stay the same, sort of like a rock will not go anywhere if nothing shoves it."

"If the rock is in Endorë it will erode, eventually."

"But he's immortal, so he's not going to erode."

"I don't know what the person kinds of eroding are. But maybe not."

"Are they thinking about releasing him?"

"Not for three Ages and it hasn't even been one."

"How long is an age?"

"A hundred of our years."

"Which seem to each be two and a half of our years. It's not at the top of the to-do list, at least."

"Yeah, that can afford to wait."

They switch back to Quenya. And how did there end up being three tribes of Elves?

I think they started out that way. 

Under their current rulers?

No, the kings now are just the people who went to Valinor to check it out, it wouldn't have made sense to have important people do that. 

"There are some Elves still in Endorë, right, wouldn't they be different tribes?"

Yes but we don't know anything about them. Bella set it up so we could talk to them but then she got sent away.

Hug.

The Valar were worried she was making trouble?

They said she was too disruptive, yeah. But she wasn't. I want to overthrow the Valar now but we didn't even want to before they did that.

Is that a safe thing to say?

Hmm?

If you said that in Valinor what would happen?

My dad would make a sad face at me.